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June 6, 2022
Brian Till
America’s Epidemic of Violence Against Health Care Workers
Those of us who work in hospitals see firsthand the carnage wrought by guns. But as the recent mass shooting at a Tulsa hospital shows, we’re also often the victims of violence.
May 4, 2022
Annie Geng
Texans Went to Oklahoma for Abortions—but as of This Week, Oklahoma’s Law Is Just as Severe
With a near-total abortion ban now in effect, anti-abortion protesters at Tulsa, Oklahoma’s only independent clinic feel like “they’ve won the war.” But abortion advocates aren’t ready to give up the fight.
May 18, 2021
Nick Martin
Meat Plants, Oil Pipelines, and the Ethical Tensions of Tribal Sovereignty
The pursuit of questionable economic projects by tribal nations offers the chance to think about what the end goals of sovereignty should, or even can, look like.
April 24, 2021
Alex Pareene
The Right to Crash Cars Into People
How Republicans across the country came to endorse a terrorist tactic against protesters
March 4, 2021
Nick Martin
The Tribal Coalition Fighting to Save Monarch Butterflies
Habitat loss and climate change are decimating the species. What can the U.S. learn from Oklahoma tribes’ efforts to restore their migratory path?
October 6, 2020
Nick Martin
How the EPA Is Screwing Oklahoma’s Tribes
The unholy alliance Senator Inhofe has forged between the agency, the state, and oil drillers is designed to skirt tribal sovereignty.
July 9, 2020
Nick Martin
Neil Gorsuch Affirms That Treaties With Tribal Nations Are the Law
In upholding the Muscogee (Creek) Nation’s treaty-guaranteed lands, the justices did something simple but unexpected.
November 28, 2018
Matt Ford
How One Murder Could Reshape Oklahoma
The Supreme Court may declare that half the state is still Indian country under federal law.
May 21, 2018
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court takes up a case that could turn half of Oklahoma back into tribal lands.
April 18, 2018
Sarah Jaffe
A True Labor of Love
Why teachers are adopting a more militant politics
April 4, 2018
Sarah Jones
How Liberals Learned to Love the Teachers
It wasn't so long ago that teachers' strikes were considered problematic. Then Trump came along.
March 15, 2018
Matt Ford
The Grisly Murder Case That Could Turn Half of Oklahoma Back Into Tribal Lands
Did Congress fail to legally abolish the Muscogee Creek Nation's reservation? The Supreme Court may have to answer that question.
March 8, 2018
Sarah Jones
The Next Big Battle for Worker Rights Is in Oklahoma
Inspired by their counterparts in West Virginia, teachers in the Sooner State say they will walk out of classrooms if their demands aren’t met.
November 8, 2017
Rebecca Grant
Does it Matter if Abortion Is Legal?
A new book warns that even with Roe v. Wade intact, the procedure is still effectively banned in some places.
July 27, 2017
Emily Atkin
Is Scott Pruitt destroying the planet so he can eventually run for office?
June 30, 2017
Graham Vyse
Republicans governors are joining the Trump resistance.
May 1, 2017
Austin Sarat
The Overwhelming Evidence Against the Death Penalty
Arkansas' recent, gruesome executions are further proof that we'll never find a humane way to put people to death.
May 20, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Not even Oklahoma’s pro-life governor thinks the state’s abortion-ban bill is legit.
May 19, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Oklahoma is on the verge of making abortion effectively illegal.
February 29, 2016
Gwyneth Kelly
Oklahoma! Where Bernie Sanders Had Better Not Lose
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