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What the Marriage Equality Backlash Taught Me About the Fight for Trans Rights Jul. 08, 2025
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court ruled that excluding same-sex couples from civil marriage was un... Read More
Face Recognition Threatens to Replace Tickets, ID at Sports Events -- and Beyond Dec. 23, 2024
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
Sports stadiums around the country have begun using face recognition to identify ticket holders, thr... Read More
Right and Left Both Want To Cancel Books They Don't Like Sep. 18, 2024
Both the right and the left are waging a war against books. The right is focusing on schools. Accord... Read More
X Admits Abortion Is Violence Jun. 04, 2024
By putting me in Twitter jail, the company now known as X inadvertently acknowledged that abortion i... Read More
5 Things To Know About the Supreme Court Case Threatening Doctors Providing Emergency Abortion Care May. 27, 2024
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
The Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in Idaho v. United States and Moyle v. United States... Read More
Banning Menthol Cigarettes Was Always a Bad Idea May. 02, 2024
The Biden administration recently stopped a plan to ban the sale of menthol cigarettes. The excellen... Read More
Kids Are Smarter Than Us, and Other Facts on Social Media Bans Mar. 30, 2024
Come, come into my awkward live chat. Let's discuss social media as moderators bounce the bots, ince... Read More
TikTok Delenda Est Mar. 15, 2024
TikTok is an app for sharing short videos that keep people entertained. It is how more and more Gen ... Read More
The REAL Story of the Two Americas Jan. 23, 2024
For the past 30 years or so, the Left has invented a narrative that there are two Americas: a group ... Read More
When Will Politicians Learn Banning Cigarettes Will Never Work? Nov. 08, 2023
One of the most enduring lessons of American history is that the banning of liquor sales and consump... Read More
Remember the Teen Vaping 'Epidemic'? Policies Inspired by That Exaggerated Threat Continue to Undermine the Harm-Reducing Potential of E-Cigarettes Nov. 08, 2023
Remember the "epidemic" of underage nicotine vaping? For years, activists, politicians and public he... Read More
When Will Politicians Learn Banning Cigarettes Will Never Work? Nov. 07, 2023
One of the most enduring lessons of American history is that the banning of liquor sales and consump... Read More
Don't Blame the Maine Shootings on 'Woefully Weak' Gun Laws: Criticism of the State's 'Yellow Flag' Statute Is Doubly Misguided Nov. 01, 2023
Five months before an Army Reserve sergeant killed 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar in Lewisto... Read More
Gun Cultures Need Gun Laws, Too Oct. 31, 2023
Rep. Jared Golden's about-face on gun laws is not surprising. He is a Democrat representing Lewiston... Read More
The Bipartisan Urge to Control Online Speech: Democrats and Republicans Are United in Thinking Their Political Agendas Trump the First Amendment Oct. 25, 2023
According to the Biden administration, federal officials who urged social media companies to suppres... Read More
Ashcroft Is Determined To Thwart a Fair Abortion Vote Any Way He Can Sep. 29, 2023
Next to the phrase "bad faith" in the dictionary should be the official portrait of Missouri Secreta... Read More
Library's Offering of a Porn How-To Book Is Self-Sabotage at a Dangerous Time Sep. 25, 2023
American libraries are in a dangerous moment. Elected demagogues and right-wing mobs are attacking t... Read More
An All-or-Nothing Approach to Abortion Rights Will Leave Missouri's Women With Nothing. Sep. 05, 2023
The fight to restore abortion rights in Missouri faces some daunting obstacles. These include a Repu... Read More
The Arbitrary Ban on Gun Possession by Drug Users Invites Wildly Uneven Enforcement: Violators Are Rarely Caught, While the Unlucky Few Who Face Prosecution Can Go to Prison for Years Aug. 23, 2023
In a 2021 survey, 15% of American adults admitted using illegal drugs (mostly marijuana) in the prev... Read More
The Arbitrary Ban on Gun Possession by Drug Users Invites Wildly Uneven Enforcement: Violators Are Rarely Caught, While the Unlucky Few Who Face Prosecution Can Go to Prison for Years Aug. 16, 2023
In a 2021 survey, 15% of American adults admitted using illegal drugs (mostly marijuana) in the prev... Read More
