Badraleen Elwaseem died this month in Buffalo. He was in his home, on his couch, when he was struck with a stray bullet. He was twelve years old. His death broke all of Buffalo’s heart but didn’t make national news. The murder of a child doesn’t get our attention. Mass…

I’m afraid. That was the point, I suppose, of the midterm campaigns. You wanted to scare us. You succeeded. But in a season marked by portents of doom from every Republican chasing a seat in Congress, it’s not the border that scares me. I’m not afraid of a mass of…

Certain assumptions are generally made about the political opposition to reproductive rights. It is assumed that the debate is solely about the morality of abortion. It is assumed that regulations dictating clinic standards, informed consent and procedural requirements are based on empirical evidence. It is assumed that despite the debate…