With heatwaves breaking records across the country, and fires and storms raging on both coasts, we're leaving the next generation to inherit an unimaginable burden.
Can a TV series starring a genuinely kind cis-het man be an antidote to a culture of toxic masculinity? Perhaps not, but it's a welcome fantasy.
On this 31st anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act, the Britney Spears conservatorship case is glaring reminder that our laws are still stacked against disabled parents and...
Journalism isn’t just about telling stories. It's also about who tells them
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News & Issues
Some of America’s top-tier journalists have withheld information ahead of their book releases—prioritizing sales over public good. And when they do, nobody wins.
Who Loses When Reporters Don’t Report?
The GOP's opposition to preventative measures, like mask-wearing and vaccines, didn't begin with COVID. Ten years ago, they weaponized another vaccine in a bid for the Republican...
Britney Spears’s inability to escape her conservatorship exposes a punitive civil court system that fails to protect those with mental health issues.
At 245 years old, with two civil wars behind it, and in the grips of a third, the United States is anything but. Will we ever build peace?
Culture
Even after coming out, this writer had to unearth and confront the negative assumptions she unknowingly held about same-sex relationships.
The Complicated Process of Rejecting Heteronormativity
The author of the timely new book, ‘Cultish,’ breaks down the strange gender dynamics of cults and explains why women appear to be drawn in more often than men.
After more than a year of the COVID shutdown and a separation from a 20-plus-year marriage, the writer harbored Xanadu fantasies that wheelie-shoes would provide much-needed joy. If...
When municipalities settle sexual assault and harassment suits with taxpayers' money, Americans literally pay for the sexual predation we seem unwilling to confront.
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Science
Women are expected to minimize our trauma and love our scars. Ten years after the writer suffered a hit-and-run accident that took her ear, she realized she didn't have to embrace...
It’s Okay to Hate Your Scars
The pandemic’s toll on the country sparked another gruesome epidemic: black fungus—an infection whose treatment can be as brutal as the illness.
Environmental leaders came together to insert climate-conscious policy into economic development, infrastructure, social equity proposals, but much of that collaborative work is missing...
There’s more information available to humans than ever. But it isn’t making us more informed thinkers.
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.