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April 27, 2018 | Aviva Stahl | Body image and body standards, Health, Politics
Tennessee set to establish anti-choice monument on State Capitol grounds

A monument dedicated to “victims of abortion” is one step closer to being built on the grounds of the Tennessee State Capitol.

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April 10, 2018 | Aviva Stahl | Free Speech, Media, Politics
Is Big Brother coming for the press?

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security plans to monitor hundreds of thousands of news sources around the world and build a database that it enables it to track and search journalists, editors, and “media influencers” based on their beat and past work.

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April 03, 2018 | Marianne Schnall | Politics
New coalition aims to elect more women

Women hold fewer than one-quarter of elected positions in the U.S. Eight top women's organizations are uniting to change this picture.

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March 22, 2018 | Rebecca McCray | Health, Politics
'US is a pro-life nation,' says Trump appointee at UN meeting

At a recent closed-door meeting, Bethany Kozma stood before a roomful of international leaders assembled to discuss gender equality and women’s rights and announced that the “U.S. is a pro-life nation.”

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March 20, 2018 | Aviva Stahl | Health, Politics
Judge grants temporary order to block strictest abortion ban in U.S.

On Monday, Mississippi's governor signed a new bill into law that prohibits abortion after 15 weeks, making Mississippi the strictest state in the country for women who want to terminate unwanted pregnancies. Just before noon today, a district judge granted a temporary restraining order requested by the state's lone clinic.

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March 09, 2018 | Aviva Stahl | Economy, Media, Politics
Women losing ever more pay as wage gap grows

The last decade saw the slowest progress on closing the gender wage gap in nearly 40 years, according to a report released Wednesday.

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February 08, 2018 | Aviva Stahl | Body image and body standards, Health, Politics
Male Arizona legislators stuck in the Dark Ages as women advocate for free prison sanitary products

As women used words like “menstruation” and “heavy flow” while describing the humiliating and degrading experience of having insufficient sanitary products in prison, the nine, all-male members of the Arizona legislature’s Committee on Military, Veterans and Regulatory Affairs bristled and shifted in their seats.

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January 29, 2018 | Aviva Stahl | Politics
Senate fails to pass 20-week abortion ban aimed at undermining vulnerable Democratic incumbents

In a vote early this evening, Senate Republicans failed to pass “The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act,” a bill that aimed to make abortion 20 weeks post-fertilization illegal in most cases.

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January 21, 2018 | Marianne Schnall | Feminism, Politics
Transforming the Women’s March into political power

The Women's March marks its one year anniversary with huge turnouts at marches all over the U.S., and launches a campaign to mobilize candidates and voters.

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January 18, 2018 | Aviva Stahl | Health, LGBTQIA, Politics
Trump administration gives ‘license to discriminate’ to health care providers

Today, the Trump administration established yet more barriers for women, LGBTQ people, and others to access the urgent care they need by providing additional protections to health care workers who refuse to provide treatment because of their moral or religious beliefs.

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January 04, 2018 | Aviva Stahl | Feminism, International, Politics
U.S. ranks behind Saudi Arabia in representation of women in office, even as more women contemplate running here

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.

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December 22, 2017 | Aviva Stahl | Gender-based violence, Immigration, Politics, Violence against women
Trump appointees are preventing raped, undocumented minors from obtaining abortions

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.

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November 29, 2017 | Susan Buttenwieser | Disability, Economy, Health, Politics, WMC Loreen Arbus Journalism Program
GOP tax plan targets women, people with disabilities, and 13 million people who will lose health care

The Republican bill is one step closer to becoming law.

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November 29, 2017 | Rebecca McCray | Health, Politics, Religion
Trump is remaking the federal judiciary in his own image, and it’s very white, very Republican, and very male

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.

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October 31, 2017 | Chagmion Antoine | Feminism, Politics
The resistance shows its strength at the Women’s Convention

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.

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October 27, 2017 | Rebecca McCray | Feminism, Free Speech, Gender-based violence, Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda, Media, Misogyny, Politics
A night at the Women's Media Awards: Leading the way for women after an oppressive year

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.

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October 24, 2017 | Rebecca McCray | Health, Politics
Trump administration sneaks three words into health doc that undermine reproductive rights

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.

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September 21, 2017 | Marcie Bianco, Ph.D. | Media, Politics
Harvard study documents anti-Clinton media bias

A new study finds that mainstream media outlets were complicit in spreading right-wing propaganda during the 2016 campaign.

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September 21, 2017 | Susan Buttenwieser | Health, Politics
Republicans’ sweeping and cruel last-ditch effort to repeal Obamacare

Republican lawmakers are trying to rush through another bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and it’s their most harmful proposal yet.

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September 15, 2017 | Rebecca McCray | Economy, Jane Fonda, Politics
Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin call out subpar wages for women workers

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.

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September 06, 2017 | Jessica Montoya Coggins | Immigration, Politics
Trump kills DACA, striking devastating blow to DREAMers

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.

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August 24, 2017 | Sarah Swig | Politics
Winning with choice—good politics and good policy

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.

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August 09, 2017 | Katti Gray | Feminism, Media, Politics
How suffragists—and their foes—used media

A new resource on media and the suffrage movement sheds light on the central role of media in any campaign for social change.

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July 26, 2017 | Heather Watkins | Disability, Health, Politics, WMC Loreen Arbus Journalism Program
Women disability activists front and center in resistance

As disability rights advocates are fighting back against Republican attempts to dismantle Medicaid and other support services, women, especially women of color, bring to their activism "unique, comprehensive, lived experience," reports writer Heather Watkins.

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July 18, 2017 | Susan Buttenwieser | LGBTQIA, Politics
Justice groups fight back against Texas lawmakers’ anti-trans, anti-choice bills

Republican Governor Greg Abbott has called a special session of the Texas legislature, and anti-choice and anti-trans bills are the hallmarks of the agenda.


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