As Democrats face a presidential campaign against a resurgent and resilient Donald J. Trump and a brutally challenging Senate map, they believe they have an increasingly powerful political weapon: ballot measures protecting abortion rights. Two key presidential and Senate battlegrounds, Arizona and Nevada, are expected to put such measures squarely before voters. The same goes…
Carrying colorful signs and banners that read “Doctors not doctrine” and “Abortion is health care,” hundreds of activists chanted, marched and rallied outside the Supreme Court for hours starting Tuesday morning before the justices weighed the availability of a commonly used abortion pill. Abortion rights supporters outnumbered abortion opponents, but the two factions occasionally clashed…
David B. Mixner, a political strategist who played a prominent role in the anti-Vietnam War movement and the tough fight for gay rights and whose decades-long influence on Bill Clinton spanned both eras, died Monday at his home in midtown Manhattan. He was 77. The cause was complications of a long-term Covid infection, said Steven…
