Hurricane Ida showed New Yorkers that the billion-dollar investments in flood protection after Hurricane Sandy aren’t enough to protect NYC’s most vulnerable communities.
The health benefits for women to do weight training are manifold, from improving mental acuity to increasing bone density. So why aren't we more strongly encouraged to do it?
To understand how America's democracy moved to the brink of collapse, we need to look at the underbelly of power—and how it’s funded.
Journalism isn’t just about telling stories. It's also about who tells them
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News & Issues
The NY congressional candidate, who is running against Rep. Carolyn Maloney, is centering her progressive platform around addressing economic injustices—and giving voice to...
Maya Contreras Wants to Talk About Money
The GOP is demolishing our guardrails and doing all they can to end democracy as we know it—and eventually, they'll succeed. And those of us on the margins stand to lose everything.
In the face of crisis, American society has cultivated helplessness, from either trauma or denial. Is there a future for a nation on the brink of failure?
The paltry $7.25-an-hour federal minimum wage hasn't been raised in over a decade, and the majority of those underpaid hard workers are women, who are treading dangerously close to the...
Culture
Journalists in local newsrooms face painful amounts of work for a public that has been incited to view them as ‘enemies of the people.
Is CRT Discourse Doomed by Local News?
In this exclusive excerpt from 'Until I Am Free,' historian Keisha Blain shares the civil-rights activist's frustration with the women's liberation movement's erasure of Black...
The white, patriarchal Christian Right is trying to shove this country toward a theocratic, autocratic fascist state despite a growing attrition from organized religion.
Journalism on the Afghanistan withdrawal often suffered from missing context, tacit assumptions, over-editorializing, and emotion at the expense of nuance.
Journalism isn’t just about telling stories. It's also about who tells them
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Science
As the pandemic has raged on, underlying problems within the American health care system have been exacerbated, and health care workers are feeling the effects.
What Happens When the COVID Empathy Runs Out?
Just as teens are beginning to discover their individuality, social media swoops in with unrealistic expectations that can subvert self-worth and have lasting ramifications.
Humans have successfully navigated space, but down on Earth, when it comes to seeking helpful information on fertility complications, many people are left in the dark.
How one writer found a sustainable way of life beyond American borders
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.