Of course women will be arrested for abortions. Did you think otherwise?
So, you think women won’t get arrested for abortions? Let’s take a look at where they already are.
Analysis & Policy
Articles that dig into an issue, policy, or story, and present relevant research and insights.
Why Louisville Metro Council is smarter than SCOTUS on global warming
A tale of two cities can be told about last month’s U.S. Supreme Court decision throwing out the Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to protect the environment from global warming.
The housing crisis: public problems, social solutions
We have a housing crisis in this country – and most answers people propose are either inadequate or don’t work at all. Neal Turpin lays out a Big Idea for a solution.
Whose party has the Kentucky GOP _actually_ aligned with?
SOS Michael Adams was more than happy to proclaim “the birthplace of Lincoln has finally aligned with the party of Lincoln.” But an objective look at the facts puts the lie to Adams’s claim.
Dems close gap on GOP in midterm poll following Supreme Court’s upending of Roe
The Supreme Court’s decision to end abortion rights protections appears to be helping Democrats’ numbers.
Secret Service goes really secret
The claim by the Secret Service that their January 6th text messages were lost due to a standard phone replacement process stinks like a rotten fish on a hot day.
Abortion and the law of unintended consequences
When you pass laws, you risk unintended consequences. Here are three such consequences that are caused by the outlawing of abortion in Kentucky and nationwide.
Abortion: The story of suffering and death behind Ireland’s ban and subsequent legalization
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, the nation may find itself on a path similar to that trodden by the Irish people from 1983 to 2018.
Kentuckians seem convinced that Covid is over, but they're wrong
Almost all in Kentucky appear to believe the pandemic is over and that “herd immunity” has snuffed the virus out. But, right now your chance of dying of Covid-19 with the Omicron variant is greater than it was with the Delta variant.
Red flag laws saved 7,300 Americans from gun deaths in 2020 alone – and could have saved 11,400 more
Do red flag laws make a difference? This scholar looked at the numbers, and found that red flag laws definitely make a difference.
A coup looking for a legal theory
Trump followed a 7-point plan to try to overturn the 2020 election – in other words, to carry out a coup. And the coup attempt is still happening, and still a threat.
How a public hearing is different from an investigation – and what that means for the Jan. 6 committee
A scholar of Congressional oversight discusses what the January 6 committee is aiming for in their public hearings that being tonight.
Three laws PROVEN to lower gun violence – and five disproven myths
We don’t need to throw up our hands and say “nothing will stop our pandemic of gun violence.” There are three data-driven laws we can pass that are proven to lower the amount of gun violence in our society.
Kentuckians under “crippling” financial stress from student loan debt
Kentuckians collectively owe more than $20 million in student loan debt, and a new informal survey sheds light on how hefty student-loan payments affect the lives of borrowers in the Commonwealth.
The most important article you will read today – “What would an American Fascist Government look like?”
We have an authoritarian movement growing across our country, and if it is not called out and stopped, the United States may still exist, but “America” will be gone.
Rand Paul gets more gun money than anyone else in Congress
It can be enlightening to see which Congress-person gets paid by which lobby, and how that affects their actions. Here’s some info in that regard on Rand Paul.
