The fact that this was widely expected does nothing to reduce the profound shockwaves now that it’s here. Late on Monday night (US-time), Politico released a leaked 98-page ruling from Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, that appears to show that the court has voted to strike down 1973’s landmark Roe v Wade decision that legalised abortion in America. Alito’s withering draft opinion described Roe as ‘egregiously wrong from the start.’ America seems poised to make abortion illegal once more. The […]

May 26 by George Grundy
Shortly after Barack Obama’s second inauguration in early 2013, then Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal delivered a speech suggesting that unless the Republican party recalibrated its message and approach, the party would remain all but unelectable. Republicans, he said, should stop looking backwards, ...