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They say you can’t go home again, but the Supreme Court says otherwise. Peter Neil Carroll’s Before Roe offers a glimpse of “normal” from the bad old days.

When the House committee investigating January 6 changed its schedule to hold an immediate hearing on Tuesday, it was clear something big was up. The view of January 6 from the heart of the White House — from the belly of the beast — was made clear.

For only 58 years of the nation’s 246-year-old economy, women have been able to avail themselves — thanks to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act — of the full citizenship that we effectively purchase through our jobs.

Only a decisive defeat of Putinism — with its toxic mix of despotism, corruption, right-wing nationalism, and devil-may-care extractivism — would offer the world some sliver of hope when it comes to restoring some measure of planetary balance.

Memes and status updates explaining how women could legally obtain abortion pills in the mail exploded across social platforms. Some even offered to mail the prescriptions to women living in states that now ban the procedure. Facebook removed them

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Women working in the blue-collar “nontraditional” occupations, traditionally occupied by men, have been writing about their experiences, contributing to our knowledge of “the hidden history of affirmative action.” Here is such a story.

Resist and fightback -- numerous unions condemned the Supreme Court's decision to end the constitutional right to an abortion. A sampling, from multiple unions representing workers in virtually every sector of the economy, are reprinted below.

Over 400 Planned Parenthood workers in five states will begin voting by mail this week in a union organizing election. The National Labor Relations Board will tally votes July 21.

This decade-old book is especially relevant now.