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Election workers are committed to 2024 — despite threats, harassment and turnover
Facing a 'new reality' in their work on the frontlines of defending democracy, election administrators — predominantly women — remain cautiously optimistic that they can meet the moment.
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Books about sexual assault aren’t pornographic. Schools are banning them as ‘obscene’ anyway.
The latest censorship target disproportionately affects women and nonbinary authors — and can prevent survivors from accessing materials that reflect their lives.
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She won an Alabama swing district. Her supporters want more women to do the same.
Supporters of Marilyn Lands, a Democrat who ran a campaign focused on abortion, are launching a new PAC focused on recruiting and training women candidates to run for office in the state.
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Tax Day came and went without a vote on the child tax credit
The proposal would give more money to low-income families with children, but the Senate failed to vote on it before the end of the tax season. It’s unclear if it can pass this year.
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Supreme Court allows Idaho to enforce ban on gender-affirming care for minors
The opinion allows Idaho to enforce House Bill 71, a law banning youth in the state from receiving gender-affirming care medications and surgeries.
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It’s official: Your boss has to give you time off to recover from childbirth or get an abortion
New regulations under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act will give millions of workers, many of them low-income women of color, access to unpaid leave for the first time.
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The 19th opens applications for its third Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Fellowship cohort
The program provides graduates and mid-career alums of Historically Black Colleges and Universities with full-year, salaried fellowships in reporting, audience engagement, and product and technology.
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Many trans Americans are living in fear. But LGBTQ+ advocates see a reprieve in statehouses.
The number of anti-LGBTQ+ bills being signed into law has shifted in the last year, leaving advocates feeling “cautiously optimistic” over a turning of the legislative tide.
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With Florida and Arizona bans looming, money’s getting tight for abortion travel funders
Nonprofits help people cross state lines for abortions. Now those journeys will be longer and costlier — and donations are dwindling.
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O.J. Simpson’s trial forced us to talk about domestic violence. We're not done yet.
His legacy will forever be linked to the trial for the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson, and the ways racial dynamics complicated it.