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
We want to hear from women with autoimmune conditions who received an incorrect or delayed diagnosis Hundreds of millions of people – roughly one in ten globally – are affected by autoimmune condition
The midterm elections are ongoing; your last day to vote is Nov. 3. This year, wealthy and powerful individuals and organizations have pushed to get major anti-trans initiatives on the ballot in Arizo
More than half (53%) of reproductive-age women living in states with abortion-provision bans say they would not know where to go or where to find information if they needed an abortion, up from 43% in
This brief provides national estimates from the 2026 KFF Women’s Health Survey on reproductive age women’s experiences with abortion, the impact of Dobbs on abortion access and women’s concerns about
When Suzanne Bell saw President Donald Trump’s announcement this month about improving the future of women’s health research, she felt deep skepticism. Bell, a demographer at Johns Hopkins University,
Republican Mike Beltran, a former Florida legislator running to flip the state’s 14th Congressional District, filed a defamation lawsuit against a woman who had been trafficked as a teen — part of his
