Karen Handel’s exit from the organization reveals the discord surrounding the Planned Parenthood decision.
Anna Clark
Anna Clark is a writer and journalist living in Detroit. She maintains the literary and social justice website Isak.
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Komen Foundation Races for the Cuts
The breast-cancer awareness group caves to anti-choice groups and pulls its funds from Planned Parenthood.
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Death, Interrupted
Oregon’s stay of execution for a death-row inmate signals a wider movement to stop capital punishment.
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Penn State Rallies for Victims
Students and alumni support sexual-abuse victims as scandal unfolds.
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Pull Over for the Emergency Manager
A challenge to Michigan’s anti-democratic law may bypass the courts.
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A Muted Effort to Reduce Prison Rape
Attorney General Eric Holder’s weakened plan to stop rape in prison disappoints advocates.
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The Golden Girl Image
Robin Black says making older women complicated heroines in fiction is a political act that can help bring about social change.
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Read Local
Small book publishers are looking to communities of loyal readers to support them.
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Where Physics, Poetry, and Politics Collide
TAP talks to poet A. Van Jordan about institutional racism, the Jena 6, and the language of poetry.