Elizabeth Bruenig

1 week ago | theatlantic.com | Elizabeth Bruenig

The case of Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old Georgia nurse who has been brain-dead since early February, became the center of a skirmish between the country’s pro-choice and pro-life factions last month after an Atlanta news station’s interview with Smith’s mother, April Newkirk, was picked up by national media. Smith, Newkirk told a local news station, is being kept alive via life support without her family’s prior consent so that her unborn child can continue to gestate until delivery.

1 month ago | apu.fi | Elizabeth Bruenig

Isyydellä on vahva rooli Donald Trumpin MAGA-liikkeen mielikuvituksessa. Vuosi sitten Tucker Carlson lämmitteli yleisöä Trumpin vaalitilaisuudessa. Hän kuvaili presidenttiä kuria ylläpitäväksi isäksi, joka on raivoissaan maan rappeutumisesta. ”Kun isä tulee kotiin, tiedätkö mitä hän sanoo?” Carlson kysyi yleisöltä. ”Olet ollut tuhma tyttö, todella tuhma tyttö, ja saat kunnon selkäsaunan heti.”Myös suositussa Trump-aiheisessa fanituotteessa on slogan Daddy’s Home.

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Elizabeth Bruenig

When a young man detonated a car bomb in the parking lot of a Palm Springs, California, fertility clinic last week, killing himself and injuring four others, I assumed the attack was related in some distorted way to pro-life politics. Despite the Trump administration’s recent embrace of in vitro fertilization, some pro-lifers, especially conservative Catholics, are opposed to the practice because it can lead to the disposal of embryos.

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Elizabeth Bruenig

During his campaign, Donald Trump told Christian supporters that if he became president, they would never have to vote again, because “we’ll have it fixed so good.” Now he’s trying to follow through on his promise by establishing a task force charged with “eradicating anti-Christian bias.” But Christians shouldn’t conclude that this new commission will necessarily defend their interests, let alone fix it “so good.” Eliminating anti-Christian bias will require the task force (and thereby the...

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Elizabeth Bruenig

The kids’ folders come home from school fat with dead-stock papers: permission slips, notices, idle doodles, art projects, completed packets of classwork. I sort through it all, checking their work before depositing it into the recycling bin. On my eldest daughter’s first day of kindergarten, I told myself I would keep scads of her schoolwork as mementos in boxes in the attic, but I underestimated how much there would be.