2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (300+ words) Editor’s note: Nasrin Sotoudeh is an Iranian human rights lawyer and activist who, along with her husband Reza Khandan, has been repeatedly arrested for her women’s rights activism and spent six years in prison. In the wake of Gloria Steinem’s…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1763+ words) Editor’s note: This essay is adapted from a special episode of On the Issues with Michele Goodwin, “Rest in Power Gloria Steinem—An Enduring Legacy of Truth-Telling, Torch-Bearing and Bringing Joy to the Resistance.” This week, Gloria Steinem died at…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (984+ words) Five-year-old Liam Tadeo and his dad, Victor Martinez Nieto, planned to spend the last day of summer before kindergarten playing soccer. Instead, on Sunday, Aug. 16, on the way to Liam’s game, ICE agents pulled them over, arrested them and sent…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1801+ words) Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, on boards, in sports and entertainment, in judicial offices and in the private sector in the U.S. and around the world—with a little…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (887+ words) New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed a law Thursday establishing the nation’s strongest physical protections for gender-affirming care patients and providers, while expanding legal safeguards for reproductive healthcare access. The law, which passed both houses of the legislature in June,…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1089+ words) On Monday, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority gave the Trump administration a temporary procedural victory in its effort to interfere with mail-in voting ahead of the November midterms. But despite some alarming headlines, the Court did not rule that President…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1691+ words) Originally published by COURIER Texas on Aug. 12, 2026. “Choosing to bring new life into the world shouldn’t be a death sentence,” insisted Michelle Maloney, the San Antonio attorney working to bring justice to Texas widower Hope Ngumezi and his two young…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (423+ words) This midterm season, as courts and legislatures chip away at who gets to have a voice in our elections and governance, shoring up our democratic infrastructure is more important than ever. An unlikely tool in the arsenal of democracy? Care....

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1894+ words) Originally published by COURIER Texas on Aug. 11, 2026. Trigger warning: This story contains transparent descriptions of miscarriage and death. A devastated Texas dad says his wife’s death after a miscarriage was preventable—and that the state’s abortion ban helped create the…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1202+ words) “The woman who was ahead of the women, who were ahead of their time.” One hundred and fifty years ago, on July 4, 1876, at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, our founding feminist foremothers were speaking past their own lifetimes—straight to us,…...