This election, hunger weighs heavily on the ballot—particularly for voters who care about women. From Gaza to Cuba, from USAID to SNAP, current U.S. food policies reveal a troubling pattern of misogyn
Miscarriages in detention. Dangerously early labors. Homelessness. Single motherhood. Women share their stories of deaths, deportations, and crushed dreams. When Iris Monterroso-Lemus got pregnant in
This story was reported in partnership with Uncloseted Media , an LGBTQ-focused investigative news outlet. Max Sorgenfrey was sipping a coffee at a cafe in Charleston, South Carolina, in early October
Seven in 10 Indian Americans disapprove of the job President Donald Trump is doing, according to the Carnegie Endowment's 2026 Indian American Attitudes Survey—a sharper rebuke than he gets from the A
EASTERN PANHANDLE, W.Va. — Over and over on a recent October Saturday, Jenny Thacker explained to voters in West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle why the groundwater in the region is particularly suscepti
Photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker/ProPublica. Source images: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images; Win McNamee/Getty Images. In July, not long before President Donald Trump delivered
In legislatures and courts across the country, men dominate. They wield outsized power in Congress, state legislatures and key committees and subcommittees. Men are validated when they run for office,
PEEKSKILL, New York — Betsy Abrams, a 67-year-old executive assistant, showed up at a political rally held in a park on the banks of the Hudson River wearing a shirt that read, “Sit over there, I don’
Record spending on state and federal races is defining the 2026 election cycle, with an unprecedented share of the money coming from billionaire megadonors, corporations and “dark money” nonprofits th
Election Day is November 3, but Americans have been weighing in on races up and down the ballot for weeks. That’s because most states offer some form of early voting, either in person or by mail, and
The civil rights arm of the U.S. Department of Education has dramatically scaled back investigations involving schools and colleges since the second Trump administration began, even as complaints cont
Click to expand Image Three Azerbaijani women wearing headscarves in Baku, Azerbaijan. © 2019 Getty Images School officials across Azerbaijan have been turning away girls wearing hijabs following the
President Donald Trump and his policies were a consistent and high-profile theme during the Supreme Court’s last term. The justices weighed in on several of Trump’s signature initiatives, from sweepin
Without high quality data and clear consensus among the limited guidance available, patients are “falling through the cracks.” Chloe Gremory, 34, knows that at 40, she should begin getting regular mam
The skeleton couldn’t stop talking about alcohol — that was the first problem. Nine-year-old Nathalie convinced her parents to shell out $179 for a bartending bag of bones that caught her eye on a Sep
