2+ day, 18+ 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…...

6+ day, 4+ 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, 1+ day 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…...

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2+ week, 17+ min 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…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (484+ words) If feminism means each of us finding our unique power, and helping other women do the same, Dolly Parton certainly has done both. In 1986 she crossed two more boundaries. Dolly’s Smoky Mountain Christmas, an ABC made-for-television movie based on her…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (887+ words) New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed a law Thursday establishing the nation’s strongest physical protections for gender-affirming care patients and providers, while expanding legal safeguards for reproductive healthcare access. The law, which passed both houses of the legislature in June,…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1691+ words) Originally published by COURIER Texas on Aug. 12, 2026. “Choosing to bring new life into the world shouldn’t be a death sentence,” insisted Michelle Maloney, the San Antonio attorney working to bring justice to Texas widower Hope Ngumezi and his two young…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (423+ words) This midterm season, as courts and legislatures chip away at who gets to have a voice in our elections and governance, shoring up our democratic infrastructure is more important than ever. An unlikely tool in the arsenal of democracy? Care....

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (239+ words) So begins Skye Perryman’s sobering but hopeful and practical new book, Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times. Though this handbook for hard times is elevated by a we’re-all-in-it-together spirit, Perryman, an attorney and president and CEO of Democracy Forward, doesn’t sugarcoat what…...