With the increasing availability of GLP-1 receptor agonists like Ozempic and Monjauro, there are fewer fat people than ever. But not everyone believes being thinner is better for them.
Trump is losing at the polls, losing in the courts, and constituents are taking to the streets en masse. But based on media coverage, you’d think his administration is doing just...
Dachau opened almost immediately after Hitler came to power and began with imprisoning “criminals”—communists and social democrats. Sound familiar?
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News & Issues
At a time when health providers are being threatened with criminal charges even for tending to people having miscarriages, medical care has never been more inaccessible. Can we safely...
Our Biggest Health Care Risk Is Not a “Coat-Hanger Abortion”
As Syria’s new Islamist-led government claims reform, women and minorities brace for a rollback in their rights.
As the administration defunds social programs that help families live and thrive, the White House is proposing cash incentives to up the birth rate. It's as creepy as it sounds.
The author, a trans woman and mother of neurodivergent kids, has been monitoring this nation’s political climate since Trump’s first term. Now that her worst fears are fast becoming...
Culture
Trump deputized billionaire Elon Musk to gut the federal government. With DOGE nefariously mining and deleting data, Americans are hitting back, dumping Tesla—the car and the stock....
How Do Boycotts Work?
Women over 50 are statistically prone to becoming more socially isolated and lonely. Our writer, who has combatted lifelong loneliness, investigated first-hand on a solo adventure trip...
Mary Harron’s adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's 1991 novel—a portrait of a very specific, ghoulish brand of toxic masculinity—is more than just a genre film. Revisiting it on its...
With Jeff Bezos, Patrick Soon-Shiong, and others interfering in news coverage, independent journalism has become the last refuge of the Fourth Estate.
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Science
Women over 50 are statistically prone to becoming more socially isolated and lonely. Our writer, who has combatted lifelong loneliness, investigated first-hand on a solo adventure trip...
Older Women Are Battling a Loneliness Epidemic
As soon as Trump returned to office, he deputized the nongovernmental agency to remove years of critical research, from health to science and beyond, to the detriment of our...
Americans are more overwhelmed with terror than ever, and that is wearing us all down and making us sick. But there are ways to mitigate it to protect ourselves.
Researchers have historically categorized people as either gay or straight, only recently acknowledging bisexuality as its own identity. But they still won't take it seriously.
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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.