1+ day, 18+ 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…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (205+ words) Gloria Steinem understood that changing the world meant changing the story: whose experiences were considered news, whose voices were heard and whose struggles were deemed worthy of public attention. When she cofounded Ms. in 1972, the magazine gave millions of women…...

1+ week, 18+ hour 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, 1+ day ago   (1102+ words) Editor’s note: This profile of Robin Morgan was written for the forthcoming Fall 2026 issue of Ms., on the occasion of her stepping down as the magazine’s global editor. Morgan died peacefully in her sleep on Sept. 5, 2026, just days after her…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (652+ words) As we grieve the passing of Gloria Steinem, Ms.‘s co-founder and feminist visionary, we’re looking back at some of our favorite quotes from her 50+ years of speaking and activism across the U.S. and around the world. Steinem was…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (443+ words) By the time Gilda reached my office, she was worn out. The message seemed clear: This was the natural course of aging, and she should get used to the patient role. “It’s depressing,” she told me. … The system has taught…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (796+ words) I’m Candace. I’m 33 years old, from Jackson, Mississippi, and the mother of three children: a 10-year-old, a 7-year-old and a 1-year-old. Everything I do is based around my kids. Don’t invite me if my kids can’t come. They like being…...

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,…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (239+ words) So begins Skye Perryman’s sobering but hopeful and practical new book, Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times. Though this handbook for hard times is elevated by a we’re-all-in-it-together spirit, Perryman, an attorney and president and CEO of Democracy Forward, doesn’t sugarcoat what…...