I woke on Nov. 3, 2026, with Gina Hinojosa on my mind. As a Mexican American woman, history professor and—most importantly—mother, the stakes were high, not only for me but also for my toddler daughte
The girl in the picture looking straight into the camera with probing eyes is 15-year-old Rahile Omer. She was photographed in March 2018 among hundreds of other detainees at a political re-educa
Should forgiveness be extended to de-tradders recusing themselves from aesthetics they served out of commercial self-interest? The tradwife pivot is on: some female influencers whose family, faith and
A Book Review of Samuel A. Alito Jr.’s “So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country (2026)” *** Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.’s new book on the Constitution, the Su
Evelyn at the grave of her twin, Ginnifer The deputy medical examiner thought the family was being evasive. Eric Tonsfeldt had been dispatched to the pistachio-green house in Oregon City on the night
Walter White baptizes a Followers of Christ member in 1951. He led an Oregon City, Oregon, offshoot of the sect. Courtesy of the Phillips family It was a stark and forbidding vision for those who foll
The 2026 midterm elections revealed many things, including a lesson grassroots activists have understood for decades: Structural change cannot happen without sustained organizing. I have been making t
Under the Trump administration’s new Title IX rules, a student who reports being assaulted at an off-campus fraternity house may find that her school has no obligation to investigate at all. And if it
The votes of women gave Democrats control of Congress. Now, the new leadership must act quickly and decisively to reverse the Trump administration’s devastating rollbacks of women’s rights over the la
A coalition of parents, educators and nonprofit organizations sued the state of Washington late Monday over a recently passed ballot initiative banning transgender girls from competing on girls’ K-12
This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here . Jane Doe is not the only recent student to pursue le
What do these conversations reflect about our understanding of abortion and LGBTQ+ rights? After the Season 11 reunion of Love Is Blind aired on Nov. 8, we can finally put another installment of the h
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican who has passed some of the most extreme anti-LGBTQ+ laws in the country, and Democratic Rep. Sarah McBride of Delaware, the first transgender member of Congress
Click to expand Image Emomali Rahmon, President of Tajikistan, addresses the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York, September 23, 2025. © 2025 AP Photo/Pam
People often ask me for examples of well-known men who’ve spoken out about men’s violence against women. Alas, there aren’t too many, in the U.S. and globally, especially when one considers the vast s
