As cities have moved left and states have moved right, the conflicts between them have escalated.
Gender & Sexuality
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Gender Wage Gap Raises the Stakes for the American Economy
A new study connects declining female employment and the persistent gender pay gap with a lack of workplace protections for women and families.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Will Ailes Jump on Trump’s Troubled Campaign Train?
Both men are kindred spirits, with long histories of bullying women.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Indiana Court Overturns Purvi Patel’s Feticide Conviction
The Indiana Court of Appeals last week overturned the 20-year prison sentence for Purvi Patel, the first woman in the United States to be convicted under a feticide law for having an abortion. The 3-0 decision marks a victory for reproductive rights advocates, who argued that using feticide laws to convict women who end their […]
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Ivanka Trump is Evidence of Her Father’s Misogyny
The women who sing the Republican presidential nominee’s championship of women all report to him, proving to followers the natural order of things.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Turning the Anti-Abortion Tide
The Supreme Court’s Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt ruling effectively renders unconstitutional abortion restrictions in some two-dozen states, forcing abortion opponents to play defense for the first time in decades.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
One Year After Marriage Equality, Progress and Peril for LGBT Americans
The one-year anniversary of marriage equality in the U.S. comes at a watershed moment for LGBT organizers, who are launching new initiatives and forging fresh alliances amid a conservative backlash.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
SCOTUS Abortion Ruling Benefits Women of Color, Low-Income Women
The Supreme Court’s 5-3 ruling on Monday to throw out restrictive Texas abortion laws in the landmark case known as Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt is a major victory for reproductive rights advocates, who have been fighting a wave of what they call “clinic shutdown” laws nationwide. First enacted in 2013, the Texas laws rejected […]
Posted inEconomic Policy
Will the Court Restrict Abortion to the Wealthy?
As the Supreme Court prepares to rule on Texas abortion restrictions in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, low-income women face the prospect that the procedure will become so costly as to be essentially illegal.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Healing by Helping: Orlando’s Strategy for Victims, Families, and Community
City officials flooded with millions in donations following the recent nightclub massacre now face a tough but increasingly common dilemma following urban tragedies: how to distribute the money.
