Roe v. Wade will stand for now, but the essential right it protects is in Trump’s line of fire.
Gender & Sexuality
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Donald Trump’s Calibrated Race and Sex War
Don’t let his reluctant disavowal of a white nationalist group fool you—the real battle begins in the Senate.
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Under Siege, Abortion-Rights Advocates Must Link Health Care to Economic Prosperity
A reproductive rights movement that had lost touch with women’s economic concerns is partly to blame for an election outcome that now puts basic constitutional rights in jeopardy.
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A Government Of, By, and For the Deplorables
A frightening array of Islamophobes, xenophobes, homophobes, racists, and misogynists is assembling around President-elect Trump, normalizing the language and actions of hatred.
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Trump’s Awful Behavior Drives Away Women, But So Does His Anti-Woman Platform
The Republican Party will never solve its woman problem until its leaders abandon candidates and policies that seek to rob women of their basic right to make their own child-bearing decisions.
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How the Anti-choice Movement Paved the Way for Trump
Making a conservative case against Trump, Ross Douthat descends into denial about anti-choice violence.
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The Trans Paradox
Why transgender became a thing, but transracial did not.
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Turning Out the Pro-Choice Vote
A walk with Planned Parenthood in the Philadelphia suburbs
Posted inEconomic Policy
Why Are There So Many Different Gender Wage Gap Calculations?
What is the correct figure for how much women are paid relative to men? Is it 80 cents to the dollar? Or is it 83 cents? The answer, it turns out, is both: There are alternative methods for measuring the gender wage gap, and a Wednesday panel discussion at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, […]
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Trump Surrogate Gingrich Slut-Shames Megyn Kelly
Misogyny isn’t just baked into the Trump brand; it is the Trump brand.
