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…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1089+ words) On Monday, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority gave the Trump administration a temporary procedural victory in its effort to interfere with mail-in voting ahead of the November midterms. But despite some alarming headlines, the Court did not rule that President…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (291+ words) Originally published by The Contrarian on Aug. 20, 2026, “Keeping Our Eyes on the Prize.” I was recently alerted to a new rock opera called 1972 previewing in Boston this fall about women’s lives and abortion in America before Roe v. Wade. The promo…...

3+ week, 3+ 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…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (482+ words) I won’t repeat the girl’s name here. It’s already been plastered across headlines and social media, and that exposure is part of her punishment. When I first read the details of this case, I felt an immediate rush of empathy…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (854+ words) Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted Aug. 6 to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt, for invoking his constitutional right to invoke the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution during a highly contentious and jarring hearing, which…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (589+ words) This year’s midterm elections have the power to dramatically alter representation in the current Republican-leaning Congress: All 435 congressional seats in the U.S. House are up for grabs, as is two-thirds of the Senate. Public health, women’s health, abortion access, the…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (459+ words) The question is not whether educator sexual misconduct deserves federal attention. It is why the Education Department has elevated staff-on-student sexual misconduct, while devoting comparatively little attention to peer sexual harassment and assault, which occurs far more frequently. One possible…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1692+ words) Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, on boards, in sports and entertainment, in judicial offices and in the private sector in the U.S. and around the world—with a little…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (1054+ words) Judges, lawyers and sexual abuse survivors have raised very strong reasons why it would be reckless and unconscionable for the Senate to confirm Todd Blanche to the post of attorney general of the United States. One of the under-reported issues,…...