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  Hi Reader,   Emily Waldorf was 17 weeks pregnant when a doctor told her, “Your body is about to miscarry.”    Her cervix was dilated, it had opened too soon, and she was going to lose the daughter whose nursery she was just getting ready to decorate.    This news was both devastating and dangerous. Three doctors gathered in the hospital room and told Waldorf and her husband that the longer her cervix remained open and her uterus exposed to bacteria, the higher her risk of developing a life-threatening infection. The standard of care, they explained, would be to quickly empty her womb.    But they couldn’t do that, one doctor said apologetically, sighing deeply. Doing so would run afoul of the Arkansas state abortion ban. Legally, they said they could not intervene until she went into labor on her own or showed signs of a dangerous infection, or until the fetal heartbeat ended. Waldorf struggled to understand what the doctors were saying as waves...

The Most Important Things About Project 2025 JOYCE VANCE JUL 11 This morning I experienced something we’ve talked about: a friend, a likely voter who is an undecided independent and who had never heard of Project 2025 when it came up in conversation this morning. I stopped myself just short of saying, “what do you mean you haven’t heard about it?” took a deep breath, and thought, what is the most important thing I can say right now? I’ll tell you where I ended up, but this experience underscores how important it is for each of us to be ready for this moment. How do you tell someone who doesn’t know about Project 2025, or maybe someone who has heard about it but doesn’t know any of the details, what it is and why it means they need to vote in the coming election? Of course, that’s going to be very individualized. Some people will be persuaded by the big picture: Project 2025 is bad for democracy because it’s a plan to centralize power in the hands of “the next conservative” president, a...