Emily Cochrane
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One of the most important things reporters can do is trace how policies — laws and court decisions in particular — directly affect people across the United States.
That is why I spent a day at the National Domestic Violence Hotline in Austin, Texas, before two significant decisions from the Supreme Court: one about the availability of a commonly used abortion pill, and another about whether the government could prevent domestic abusers from owning firearms.
As a former congressional reporter who now covers the South for The New York Times, I’ve not...
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