By Lauren Rankin for Truthout With a decidedly anti-choice Trump administration taking office at its start, 2025 was poised to be yet another brutal year for abortion rights. Advocates feared the imminent resurgence of the Comstock Act, an 1873 law that made it a criminal offense to share contraceptives, abortifacients, and information about either across state lines or through […]
The president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is threatening legal action against a jazz musician who canceled his Christmas Eve performance after the institution’s board of trustees, handpicked by President Donald Trump, voted last week to change the name of the performing arts institution. The letter from Richard Grenell, the […]
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