Justice Alito's leaked draft goes a lot further than ending the right to an abortion. What can Democrats do to mitigate the damage?
The entire concept of professionalism is mostly used to police the behavior and appearance of Black people in the workplace.
What are we supposed to make of newsrooms instructing their employees not to comment on current events like abortion and domestic terrorism?
Journalism isn’t just about telling stories. It's also about who tells them
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News & Issues
Inflation is hardly a new phenomenon, but factoring in high costs of living and student loan debt, American millennials and Gen Zers are more financially stressed and insecure than ever...
Young Americans Are Paying the High Cost for Inflation
As the pandemic has revealed the deepest levels of inequity, and with more and more workers advocating for better labor rights, we need more ways for corporations to support workers,...
The Republicans have done everything in their power to erode our Constitutional right to a safe, legal abortion. But are the Democrats totally blameless?
Justice Alito's leaked draft decision doesn't just overturn our right to a legal abortion. The language opens the door to the gates of Hell for all of our rights.
Culture
Cis-male pundits have entered the chat on abortion, and pushed out the women who have been on the front lines of the fight from the conversation.
Oh, So Now Media Men Want to Talk About ‘Roe’
Many of us screamed into the wind about the importance of voting, the cold danger of apathy, the sheer cruelty that would be unleashed, the searing reality that too late is too soon....
Eurocentric ideas of beauty have historically warped the way non-white people evaluate their own physical features.
Our columnist and author Maud Newton speak with candor about her excellent new book 'Ancestor Trouble,' the brutal discovery of being a descendent of slave owners, and the question of...
Journalism isn’t just about telling stories. It's also about who tells them
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Science
When it came to delivering a baby, the author learned she had to push the crap out of herself.
Sometimes the Weirdest Advice Is Best
With few healthcare lessons learned, pandemic mandates are being lifted, and we're becoming increasingly resigned to live with the risk.
While your laundry is piled up in a corner waiting to be folded, social media serves up videos of put-together women in idealized versions of homemaking.
As tech continues to shape our always-online world, every new camera, app, and device is an opportunity for the law to land in the wrong hands.
Podcasts
The long history of pool segregation: from the pre-Civil Rights Era to modern day defacto segregation
Episode One: Perilous Waters
There are plenty viral news stories where people of color have been confronted in public spaces, but there’s a long history of the policing of public spaces.
Late-night pioneer Robin Thede joins Ashley to answer listeners' questions about navigating working relationships, and turning pettiness into power.
Ellevest CEO Sallie Krawcheck reminds women of the key to true gender equality: Learning to take control of our money is the only way to dismantle the patriarchy.
