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A recent study exposes how insidious age discrimination is — and it should make you mad.
A recent study exposes how insidious age discrimination is — and it should make you mad.
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Human Rights Watch · Nov 11, 2026
The 2026 midterm elections revealed many things, including a lesson grassroots activists have understood for decades: Structural change cannot happen without sustained organizing. I have been making t
Ms. Magazine · Nov 11, 2026
Under the Trump administration’s new Title IX rules, a student who reports being assaulted at an off-campus fraternity house may find that her school has no obligation to investigate at all. And if it
Ms. Magazine · Nov 11, 2026
The votes of women gave Democrats control of Congress. Now, the new leadership must act quickly and decisively to reverse the Trump administration’s devastating rollbacks of women’s rights over the la
Ms. Magazine · Nov 11, 2026
A coalition of parents, educators and nonprofit organizations sued the state of Washington late Monday over a recently passed ballot initiative banning transgender girls from competing on girls’ K-12
The 19th · Nov 10, 2026
This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here . Jane Doe is not the only recent student to pursue le
The 19th · Nov 10, 2026

What do these conversations reflect about our understanding of abortion and LGBTQ+ rights? After the Season 11 reunion of Love Is Blind aired on Nov. 8, we can finally put another installment of the h
Rewire News Group · Nov 10, 2026

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican who has passed some of the most extreme anti-LGBTQ+ laws in the country, and Democratic Rep. Sarah McBride of Delaware, the first transgender member of Congress
The 19th · Nov 10, 2026
Click to expand Image Emomali Rahmon, President of Tajikistan, addresses the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York, September 23, 2025. © 2025 AP Photo/Pam
Human Rights Watch · Nov 10, 2026
People often ask me for examples of well-known men who’ve spoken out about men’s violence against women. Alas, there aren’t too many, in the U.S. and globally, especially when one considers the vast s
Ms. Magazine · Nov 9, 2026
In July 2025, Republicans in Congress passed, and President Donald Trump signed, this administration’s signature piece of legislation: the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). In addition to directing
Ms. Magazine · Nov 9, 2026

Each election brings a mix of emotions for Sheba Williams. For nine years, Williams lost the right to vote due to a Jim Crow-era state law that disenfranchised Virginians with a felony conviction. Wil
The 19th · Nov 9, 2026