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But losing their seats didn’t keep them from using their voices, they said, nor will their former colleagues’ efforts to quiet them as South Carolina stares down an even more regressive abortion ban.

We can’t start to eliminate the deficit by raising the regressive payroll tax on the back of already overtaxed wage earners.

It highlighted societal changes in Saudi Arabia that allowed edgy American comedians to perform in a country long dismissed as irredeemably puritanical and regressive.

This contrast is a good deal more dramatically compelling than the somewhat overwrought psychological drama that exerts a regressive pull on “anthropology.”

But too often, that “heterodoxy” serves as cover for regressive politics.