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  27 September 22 Live on the homepage now! Reader Supported News LOSING RSN RIGHT NOW IS A DANGEROUS DIRECTION — Hang in there Marc and friends. For years I've been an irregular regular contributor, pitching in roughly quarterly for my own accounting purposes. I've rarely missed, but don't mind your justified vitriol. You are performing an invaluable service to our country. Wake up folks. Losing RSN right now is a dangerous direction. Bill, RSN / Reader-Supporter Sure, I'll make a donation!   Mark Gray | I Arrived at Route 91 as a Reporter. I Left as a Survivor of a Mass Shooting Mark Gray, Rolling Stone Gray writes: "I was covering Route 91 for Rolling Stone, and Jason Aldean was about to bookend what had otherwise been a fun few days. Then the shots rang out." "I don’t think any of us want our calling card to be Route 91, but it can be inescapable at times," writes Mark Gray, who came under fire while on assignment in Las Vegas in 2017 I was cover...

September 24, 2022 Heather Cox Richardson Sep 25   In Arizona, Pima County Superior Court Judge Kellie Johnson has restored a law put into effect by Arizona’s Territorial legislature in 1864 and then reworked in 1901 that has been widely interpreted as a ban on all abortions except to save a woman’s life. Oddly, I know quite a bit about the 1864 Arizona Territorial legislature, and its story matters as we think about the attempt to impose its will in modern America. In fact, the Civil War era law seems not particularly concerned with women handling their own reproductive care—it actually seems to ignore that practice entirely. The laws for this territory, chaotic and still at war in 1864, appear to reflect the need to rein in a lawless population of men. The criminal code talks about “miscarriage” in the context of other male misbehavior. It focuses at great length on dueling, for example— making illegal not only the act of dueling (punishable by three years in jail) but also havin...