Page 17 - Eric Levitz News Today

The leak of the draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade damages the mystique of an institution critical to the right-wing agenda on abortion and other issues.

Israel’s drug availability has risen over the past couple of years, and Covid has made it more noticeable - Click the link for more details.

If you hear something is a 'threat to democracy,' that's your first clue the thing is making the censorship class quake in their slippers.

Raising interest rates will pour cold water on an economy many believe is overheated — but at the risk of triggering a downturn.

Middle-East Arab News and Opinion - Asharq Al-Awsat is the world’s premier pan-Arab daily newspaper, printed simultaneously each day on four continents in 14 cities

The shock of war has been increasingly transformed into a cinematic spectacle used to fan the flames of militarism.

Representatives as possible. as frightful as all of that is, theres been some good news on the last front, on gerrymandering. eric levitz is a senior writer on the intelligence agents mazy he joins us now. this piece has got a lot of attention, people are arguing of what it means. lets start with the baseline expectations. whats your cases about how things are looking right now thus far, as state-by-state issues there nearly drunk congressional maps. >> sure. we are starting off from a situation...

Gerrymandering. if we are not going to do that, we recognize how this is shaping up. going to try and get as many blue seats as possible. that, plus the fact that in some states, theres different ways to gerrymander. texas republicans have really prioritized building up huge walls against a blue wave. still not going to knock off their incumbent. also, building in rooms. the suburbs of texas start moving like other parts of the country, theyre still going to be safe. the flip side of that, they ...

>> yeah. so very similar. my firm along with others are challenging the north carolina maps as a partisan gerrymander. now there, there is no -- there is no popular initiative that requires fair maps, but prior court decisions have said that partisan gerrymandering is out of bounds. the lower court found that there was partisan gerrymandering but wasnt sure that thats illegal under the north carolina state constitution. so thats now going to go up to that states supreme court. if that state supr...

Its an almost incomprehensible level of cynicism that is going to get people killed, people who love their program. and that is sick. eric levitz, thank you. >> thank. you >> still to come, cold hard evidence that a particular piece of evidence that a particular policy works beyond your wildest dreams. we will tell you about it. policy works beyond overreacting to allergens all season long. psst! psst! flonase all good. we will tell you about it.