1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (300+ words) Editor’s note: Nasrin Sotoudeh is an Iranian human rights lawyer and activist who, along with her husband Reza Khandan, has been repeatedly arrested for her women’s rights activism and spent six years in prison. In the wake of Gloria Steinem’s…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (205+ words) Gloria Steinem understood that changing the world meant changing the story: whose experiences were considered news, whose voices were heard and whose struggles were deemed worthy of public attention. When she cofounded Ms. in 1972, the magazine gave millions of women…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago   (1763+ words) Editor’s note: This essay is adapted from a special episode of On the Issues with Michele Goodwin, “Rest in Power Gloria Steinem—An Enduring Legacy of Truth-Telling, Torch-Bearing and Bringing Joy to the Resistance.” This week, Gloria Steinem died at…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (984+ words) Five-year-old Liam Tadeo and his dad, Victor Martinez Nieto, planned to spend the last day of summer before kindergarten playing soccer. Instead, on Sunday, Aug. 16, on the way to Liam’s game, ICE agents pulled them over, arrested them and sent…...

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1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (368+ words) Sixty-one years ago this week, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law—one of the most consequential victories of the Civil Rights Movement and a landmark affirmation of the principle that democracy belongs to all of…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (458+ words) The Trump administration’s hormonal obsession rages on. Last week, it was a new rule about access to testosterone in the military. Now, we are on to federal funding recommendations for teen pregnancy prevention and sex education programs—which will now…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (521+ words) A bottle in your medicine cabinet containing a few small pills may be the key to your reproductive freedom. Four years after Dobbs, the next battlefield in reproductive rights is abortion medication sent by mail. And while the federal government…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (872+ words) Originally published on Fuller’s Substack, Your Body Your Choice. Under former President Joe Biden, the DOJ issued a legal opinion concluding the 1873 Comstock Act—which makes it illegal to send “abortion-causing articles” through the mail—does not prohibit the mailing…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (412+ words) Picture a map of the United States. It’s 2022, and in southern states like Texas and Tennessee, there are clusters of black dots that represent independent clinic closures. These are abortion care black holes: communities where it’s no longer possible to…...