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Trials Show Successful Ballot Initiatives Are Only the Beginning of Restoring Abortion Access

Anti-choice lawmakers are working to gut voter-approved amendments protecting abortion access.

Trials Show Successful Ballot Initiatives Are Only the Beginning of Restoring Abortion Access

The outcome of two trials in the coming weeks could shape what it will look like when voters overturn state abortion bans through future ballot initiatives.

Arizona and Missouri voters in November 2024 struck down their respective near-total abortion bans. Both states added abortion access up to fetal viability as a right in their constitutions, although Arizonans approved the amendment by a much wider margin than Missouri voters.

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Rising Costs, Chronic Disease and AI: The Fight to Save U.S. Healthcare
Sure, political activism is good for the system. It's also good for your health.
Sure, political activism is good for the system. It's also good for your health.

Rising Costs, Chronic Disease and AI: The Fight to Save U.S. Healthcare

In most industries, leaders can respond quickly when market conditions change. Within months, companies can shrink or expand their workforces, adopt innovative technologies, and reconfigure operations.

Healthcare lacks such flexibility. It takes a decade to train new physicians. Hospitals take years to plan, fund, and build — years longer than it takes for basic infrastructure in other industries.

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People joined hand in hand.

A Star Trek allegory reveals how outrage culture, media incentives, and political polarization feed on our anger—and who benefits when we keep fighting.

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What Star Trek Understood About Division—and Why We Keep Falling for It

The more divided we become, the more absurd it all starts to look.

Not because the problems aren’t real—they are—but because the patterns are. The outrage cycles. The villains rotate. The language escalates. And yet the outcomes remain stubbornly the same: more anger, less trust, and very little that resembles progress.

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