The Increasingly Disturbing War Against Women’s Rights

The editors of The New Republic wirte: “When Foster Friess, the billionaire backer of Rick Santorum’s presidential campaign, suggested yesterday that women should simply place aspirin between their legs rather than use contraception, it was the latest sa…

The bishops go off the deep end

Joan Walsh writes on Salon: “[M]aybe the best argument on behalf of the Obama administration’s position comes from a very unlikely source . . . Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. In two different decisions, the conservative Catholic Scalia has sided w…