The United States remains one of the only wealthy nations without a national paid leave program—and that failure has profound consequences for women’s economic security, caregiving responsibilities and ability to participate fully in public life. Every day, workers are forced to choose between caring for a new baby, recovering from illness or supporting a loved one and keeping a paycheck. Those…
_This story originally appeared on Out._
The White House's ongoing efforts to remove diversity, equity, and inclusion from the federal government, educational institutions, and private businesses have directly impacted the income of one of the most famous and iconic transgender women in the world: Laverne Cox. She said so in interviews promoting her just-released memoir, _Transcendent.…
The FCC sought comment on blocking telecom carriers from connecting with entities on its covered list.
Federal workers who must guard what they think and say will be less open, strategic, and willing to take the initiative.
At first glance, Natalie Heller Mills has everything the tradwife internet promises: a beautiful home, a growing family and a devoted audience eager to consume her carefully curated vision of traditional womanhood. But in Caro Claire Burke's viral debut novel _Yesteryear_ , that fantasy begins to crack.
As Natalie is forced to confront the realities behind the lifestyle she promotes, Burke…
“One in three Americans are under-babied,” said Trump’s Medicare and Medicaid chief Dr. Oz last week, echoing JD Vance’s contempt for childless women as “cat ladies.” Guided by evangelical supporters, the Trump administration is eroding longstanding civil rights laws protecting women and girls in education and the workplace, restricting access to contraception and abortion, and weakening social…
Attacks on the legitimacy of U.S. elections are no longer confined to conspiracy theories circulating online—they are increasingly shaping government action at the local level.
In Riverside County, Calif., Sheriff Chad Bianco seized roughly 650,000 ballots from a 2025 special election based on fraud allegations that election officials say stem from misleading interpretations of preliminary…
A surge in voluntary departure agreements in immigration courts is raising concerns that Trump administration tactics are unfairly pressuring immigrants into leaving the United States, even if they have a legal right to stay.
An ideological architecture is emerging that sees women as reproductive vessels for a state-defined ideal, with federal policy bent toward forcing them into that role.
The post The Plot to Turn Back the Clock on Women’s Rights appeared first on Truthdig.
In every issue of _Ms._ , we track research on our progress in the fight for equality, catalogue can’t-miss quotes from feminist voices and keep tabs on the feminist movement’s many milestones. We’re Keeping Score online, too—in this biweekly roundup.
This week:
—The Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, slashing protections against racially discriminatory voting laws.
—A record high…
They burned the referees, silenced the Māori journalist, and called it freedom. This is what a global disinformation network looks like when it arrives at your door.
For years, LGBTQIA+ organisations, venues, artists, health campaigns, events and media outlets have been told the same thing by social media giants: if you want to reach your community, you ...
The post LGBTQ+ Content Is Being Silenced Across Social Media — And We Should All Be Alarmed appeared first on Star Observer.
What's the best way to keep your job under the Trump administration? Simple. Be a man.
The post Now You See Them … Now You Don’t appeared first on Truthdig.
It has come to this. Every year a completely inoffensive nonprofit called the Partnership for Public Service hosts a ceremony to hand out awards to civil servants who excel at their jobs. The awards are called the “Sammies,” after the roofing magnate and philanthropist Samuel J. Heyman (1939–2009), who put up $45 million to create the Partnership for Public Service in 2001. The Sammies have won…
This month the newest fertility data dropped—and the U.S. fertility rate has fallen again, hitting another record low in 2025 according to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). The number of births per 1,000 women of childbearing age, in 2025, went down by .7 to 53.1, compared to 53.8 in 2024. The total number of births also went down by 1 percent, to 3,606,400.
Almost immediately,…
Plus, Meta starts using AI for age verification.
As a professor at Smith College and chair of the Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality, I have closely followed the Trump administration’s attacks on higher education—and on my field in particular.
This week, those attacks landed squarely on my own campus: The Department of Education has opened a civil rights investigation into Smith’s policy of admitting transgender women,…
In the last week, there have been several viral videos circulating around social media targeting gay dads with surrogate children. It’s not a coincidence – while same-sex surrogacy, adoption and ...
The post You’re Not Imagining It, Same-Sex Surrogacy Is The Next Target For Conservatives And Fascists appeared first on Star Observer.
Massive changes to the Forest Service and shifting priorities endanger long-term ecological research, science, and the future of our public lands, writes Wendee Nicole.
The Trump administration wants to cut airport security screeners and shift funding to private contractors under the Screening Partnership Program.
The airport chaos has a name, a document, a sequence, and a private contractor waiting at the end of it. The staffing shortage is the cover story, the scheduled transfer of public infrastructure to private hands is the mechanism, and the workers are the proof of concept.
Since 1987, the United States has celebrated Women’s History Month every March.
We have used this month to correct the record. To make sure that the women who built this nation—who are often systematically written out of history books and erased from the stories we tell ourselves about who we are—are named out loud and recognized. It is a national reminder that women are not a footnote to the…
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker stated that officials and federal agents in the current administration who, according to him, violated the law should face potential criminal or civil prosecution.
The post Illinois Gov. Pritzker: Trump Officials Who ‘Broke the Law’ Must Be ‘Criminally Prosecuted’ appeared first on Breitbart.
Maryland is reportedly one of 13 states that is being investigated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, because the states require health insurance plans to cover abortion care.
A “non-permission slip” is the first step in a new nationwide campaign training thousands of local organizers to defend public education.
The post When We Fight for Public Schools, We Fight for Democracy appeared first on Truthdig.
This weekend on _Velshi_ with MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) anchor Ali Velshi, Kathy Spillar—executive editor of _Ms._ and executive director of the Feminist Majority Foundation (publisher of _Ms._)—joined to discuss a sweeping new policy blueprint from the Heritage Foundation that lays out a vision for reshaping American family life and rolling back women’s independence.'
Velshi summarized the…
La guerra de Irán revela que EE.UU. carece de estrategia para ese país y Oriente Medio, sin embargo, el Gobierno y la ultraderecha israelíes quieren controlar mediante la fuerza y el caos el conjunto de la región.
Durante su presentación el 2 de marzo pasado ante la Comisión de Inteligencia del Congreso de Estados Unidos, el secretario de Estado, Marco Rubio, explicó que en el Gobierno sabían…
In honor of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the right-wing Heritage Foundation—developers of Project 2025, the policy guidebook written to influence the Trump administration’s legislative priorities—has issued a 168-page position paper, "Saving America by Saving the Family: A Foundation for the Next 250 Years."
The document is intended to “restore the…
News commentators still overlook the obvious when they speculate about why the majority of white female voters in the last three presidential elections cast their ballots for a dishonest, fraudulent, racist, misogynistic sexual predator or why people who call themselves Christians support someone who embodies in virtually every way the opposite of “what would Jesus do?”
I’m tired of snapping at…
Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, on boards, in sports and entertainment, in judicial offices and in the private sector in the U.S. and around the world—with a little gardening and goodwill mixed in for refreshment!
This week:
—The SAVE Act would block women, young people and low-income people from voting.
—Crowded…