On Sunday night-surely you know by now-the United States Women’s National Team won the World Cup with a high-scoring 5–2 victory over Japan. What has gotten just as much attention as the match itself-and rightfully so-is the pay disparity between men and women’s sports. The U.S. Women’s Team took home $2 million for their third […]
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The Latest Target of ‘Religious Freedom’ Advocates: Reproductive Rights in the Nation’s Capital
A House committee has voted to overturn a local D.C. law that prevents discrimination based on employees’ reproductive choices.
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Step One, Acknowledge Climate Change. Step Two, Recognize It’s Our Fault.
View image | gettyimages.com Posted by guest-blogger Amanda Teuscher The past couple weeks have been a bit of a mixed bag in the debate about climate change and environmental policy. On April 1, Governor Jerry Brown imposed water restrictions on California for the first time-a 25 percent usage reduction meant to alleviate the state’s historic […]
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Rand Paul’s Millennial Outreach, Now with Flip-Flops
Posted by guest-blogger Amanda Teuscher With the news that presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz’s affiliated super-PACs have raked in $31 million in less than a week, it looks like Senator Rand Paul is going to have to sell a lot of beer koozies. Paul, who announced his candidacy on Tuesday, is already facing skepticism from […]
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America’s Only Black Piano-Maker Soldiers on Through Slights and Triumphs
When musician Warren Shadd decided to manufacture a line of high-tech pianos based on his own designs but with little capital, everyone thought he was crazy.
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Will D.C.’s Pot Legalization Fall Prey to Meddling Congress?
Under the Capitol dome, Republicans have been blocking the will of District voters for years. Now there’s a new target.
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The Next Cool Thing: Great Writing From the Middle of America
Marking its first year in publication, Belt Magazine, with its focus on the industrial Midwest, is the nation’s new literary darling.
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Watch Party Dispatch: Marijuana Legalization Activists Celebrate in D.C.
For many, this is the first midterm election they’ve voted in. And Initiative 71, which went on to pass with nearly 70 percent of the vote, is the reason.
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Go Ahead, Bash My City: I Can Take It
Here’s the real Cleveland joke: the utter dissonance of the GOP celebrating its platform of inequality in this working-class, majority-black, decidedly Blue city, where Republican attempts to suppress minority votes pose a regular problem.