Getting a Laugh and Other Essays

Recent News

• Carol Sanger, author of About Abortion: Terminating Pregnancy in Twenty-First-Century America, explained the implications of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization to viewers of CBS Sunday Morning.
• Mary Ziegler, author of After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate, argued in the New York Times that the decades-long fight to reverse Roe was not an effort to “restore” democracy but instead an attempt to change the way American democracy functions (or doesn’t).
• The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution authors Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath spoke with The Majority Report’s Sam Seder about how the two major U.S. parties relate to the Supreme Court: institutionalist liberals bask in the afterglow of the Warren court, while the GOP sees opposition to the Court’s “progressive” nature as central to their victories.
• At the Washington Post, What It Means to Be Human author O. Carter Snead and Abortion and Divorce in Western Law author Mary Ann Glendon called on “pro-life” proponents to embrace public commitments to supporting pregnant people and their children in order to fully realize their own ethics of “unconditional love and radical hospitality.”