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Justin Smith and Ben Smith are not related, nor did it seem likely that they’d ever become partners; the first time they met, it didn’t go so well. It was 2008, at Big Nick’s Burger Joint & Pizza Joint Too, a narrow dive on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Ben had picked the place. Justin, with...

‘The Left Edge of the Possible’

Nov 7, 2022 By Robert P. Baird

At the end of the eighties, the left wing of the Democratic Party was in bad shape. Democrats had lost five of the six previous presidential elections. Four of those, including the three most recent, had been landslide defeats, with Republicans winning more than four hundred votes in the Electoral College. The 1984 election was...

Peer to Peer

Dec 6, 2022 By Mary Retta

In May, when a leaked draft opinion indicated that the Supreme Court would overturn Roe v. Wade, Alison Turkos, an activist focused on abortion and survivor justice, was overwhelmed with messages. People wanted advice, reassurance, straightforward information. Many just wanted to help. “What happens during a moment of crisis is, people decide, ‘This is the...

Everywhere and Nowhere

Dec 6, 2022 By Amy Littlefield

Over the summer, on assignment for The Nation, I boarded a flight to Kansas City. Kansans were about to vote on whether to repeal their constitutional right to abortion; it would be the first direct vote on abortion in the country since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The Kansas legislature, which is led...

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