Even with a new executive order to stop separating minors from their parents at the border, the inhospitable, understaffed detention centers holding thousands are still putting kids in...
Confronting a friend about her offensive bridal theme could risk the friendship; is it worth it? And, is romantically pursuing a friend a mistake?
The criminal justice system continues to allow police to murder people of color and fails to compensate families for their immense loss. It is now up to us to save ourselves.
News & Issues
The Trump administration’s violent, nationalist, xenophobic efforts to destroy immigrants are careening toward Nazi Germany-level evil.
Locking Up Children in Cages Is Just the Beginning
It's not just people with disabilities who are at risk. Half of non-elderly Americans have preexisting conditions and could find themselves uninsured, sick, and out of luck.
Does SCOTUS’s consistent inaction on the issue mean that we’ve already lost our right to choose?
Many see the G-7 disaster as the crossing a new line of awful for the occupant of the Oval Office. But it’s just another manifestation of Trump's continued corruption of the...
Identities
White people have proven they already understand racism. So what can Black people do for self-protection?
This Is How to Survive White Supremacy
In a culture that prizes love and sex and desirability above all, in which marriage is held up as the only option for stability, it's no surprise we are seeing isolation, loneliness,...
Motherhood is full of joy and heartbreak. But for a Black mother in America, it also means fiercely protecting her child by fending off an unrelenting onslaught of racism and ignorance.
Laws are set up to allow non-custodial parents to owe billions in missed payments with little consequence, putting some single mothers and their children at risk of poverty.
Culture
It wasn’t her dad's firearm that terrified the author when she was growing up. It was the realization that a weapon could never protect her from the palpable violence.
My Father, His Gun, and Me
Dictionaries don't define words, people do. And those in power are not only eroding our lexicon, but democracy.
The mysterious, oft-disappearing FLOTUS fantasizes about being a good mom, and realizes the answer is just outside the sinkhole: don't be like Donald.
What do you do when mansplainers-in-training and internet trolls shout their unsolicited advice? Wine? Netflix? Or check those fools into silence?
Science
The last thing a person giving birth should have to worry about is being violated or abused by a medical practitioner. And yet, it’s more common than you think.
Birth Needs a #MeToo Reckoning
"You should smile more" isn't just an annoying catcall; it's a social demand. If women fail to comply, the consequences can be brutal.
Advanced technology promises to modernize everything from communication to war, but math and machines are not immune to human bias.
The social media giant preaches “connection” as its ultimate goal, but we can’t forget that it has only ever been in business for itself.