For Republicans, the Ice Age Cometh

Despairing Republican friends have been asking me what I think we should do to rebuild the GOP and begin our certain and inevitable comeback. My answer disappoints them: “Build an ark.” I say this because I’ve made a career out of counting votes, and the numbers tell a clear story; the demographics of America are changing in a way that is deadly for the Republican Party as it exists today

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Are we Having Babies All Wrong? A Q&A With Legendary Midwife Ina May Gaskin

Ina May Gaskin started delivering babies in 1970 while on a hippie cross-country trip known as “The Caravan.” She had no medical training, just a masters degree in English a gut feeling that women deserved kinder, gentler births. When the hundreds of Caravaners settled in Tennessee on “The Farm,” Gaskin and several other women began delivering the community’s babies at home and also opened one of the first, non-hospital birthing centers in the country.

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