I woke on Nov. 3, 2026, with Gina Hinojosa on my mind. As a Mexican American woman, history professor and—most importantly—mother, the stakes were high, not only for me but also for my toddler daughter’s future.
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Should forgiveness be extended to de-tradders recusing themselves from aesthetics they served out of commercial self-interest? The tradwife pivot is on: some female influencers whose family, faith and
A Book Review of Samuel A. Alito Jr.’s “So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country (2026)” *** Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.’s new book on the Constitution, the Su
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Walter White baptizes a Followers of Christ member in 1951. He led an Oregon City, Oregon, offshoot of the sect. Courtesy of the Phillips family It was a stark and forbidding vision for those who foll
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
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
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
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
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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
