While American women reach new milestones, including holding a record number of seats in the Senate, their representation in national legislative office still lags behind a hundred other countries, including falling two places below Saudi Arabia, which is notorious for its terrible treatment of women.
22-year-old Tyler Bryant, a senior at Alabama State University and president of the Alabama College Democrats, explains the efforts many students made on the ground to mobilize young voters and black voters to help Jones win.
In three cases of undocumented minors needing abortions, the government has argued that merely allowing the women to physically leave a detention facility would amount to facilitating their abortions, even though no one is asking the government to transport the women to clinics or to pay for their abortions.
Banning these particular words silences already marginalized Americans — especially women.
Despite the accusations of sexual assault and molestation made against Alabama Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Roy Moore, as well as the racist and anti-semitic comments he made — like his claim that America was great during slavery — nearly two-thirds of white women voted for him.
This year in Virginia, we had a slate of really compelling, diverse, young candidates who were more representative of Virginians than I think the usual slates of candidates are. We were excited about helping get them elected.
The Republican bill is one step closer to becoming law.
As the administration continues to absorb legal blowback and fight cases in federal courts, Trump has quietly pushed ahead with his mission to remake the federal judiciary in his image: one that is very white, very Republican, and very male.
Barack and Michelle’s chose two black artists to create their portraits for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery: Barack chose Brooklyn native Kehinde Wiley and Michelle chose Baltimore-based Amy Sherald.
Maxine Waters was among the 4,000 leaders and activists who gathered for the Women's Convention to inspire intersectional movement building and to mobilize for the 2018 midterm elections.
A confluence of normalized misogyny and devaluing of women made Thursday’s Women’s Media Awards all the more uplifting, emphasizing the power of sisterhood and the voices of women in media.
Tweaking just a few words in a sentence can change its meaning entirely. The Trump administration recently did just that—and the tiny edit may have drastic repercussions for women.
U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley is going to Africa. South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Ethiopia, specifically. She says in an October 22 CNN op-ed that President Trump is sending her “to get a first-hand picture of what can be done.”
The Irish government announced in September they would hold a referendum on the 8th Amendment in mid-2018—a long-awaited move by many in the country. The announcement followed years of campaigning by pro-choice organizations in Ireland.
While frustrating and dangerous, these constant attacks on women’s bodily autonomy provide all the more reason to support facilities like Planned Parenthood.
Joe Arpaio, according to Trump, was the one cheated and attacked by the criminal justice system — not his victims.
A new study finds that mainstream media outlets were complicit in spreading right-wing propaganda during the 2016 campaign.
Republican lawmakers are trying to rush through another bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and it’s their most harmful proposal yet.
Fast food workers put a national movement called the Fight for $15 on the map in November 2012 when they walked out of chain restaurants across New York City to demand higher hourly wages.
The Trump administration officially announced yesterday that DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) would be rescinded, pending a six-month delay. For those with DACA status (known as DREAMers), the announcement was a devastating blow, and many face an uncertain future.
How can we be less insulated? There isn’t a simple answer to this question, but it’s clear that in order to truly understand and recognize each other, we must want to understand and recognize each other.
Democratic leadership has said abortion won't be a "litmus test" for candidates. But they can't make progress on economic and racial justice without fighting for abortion rights.
No, Donald Trump is not Adolph Hitler.
That this horrific idea exists, floating in our collective ethos and demanding a refutation is shocking. But this is where we are, and the failure to address the horror only means a greater evil is sure to come.
In November 2016, a scholar named Sebastian Schutte—a Marie Curie fellow at the Zukunftskolleg and the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz in Germany—wrote an interesting article in The Washington Post. In it he argued that Trump had not reached Hitlerian heights. Not yet.
A new resource on media and the suffrage movement sheds light on the central role of media in any campaign for social change.