Alicia Jackson, director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, speaks at an event earlier this year. Photo illustration by ProPublica.
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Find ResourcesMissourians voted to enshrine reproductive rights into the state constitution in 2024. This year, they’ll be asked if they want to repeal that measure. Missouri Republicans are hoping that 2026 midter
The 2016 election changed how Tanya Miller felt about politics. The 2024 election — President Donald Trump’s defeat of then-Vice President Kamala Harris — changed how she saw her career. “Who I viewed
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Click to expand Image Protesters demand the scrapping of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and the resignation of India’s top election official, in Hyderabad, India, on October 2
Alex Goyette’s new psychological horror film Breeder , opening in U.S. theaters Wednesday, Oct. 28, explores the terrifying ambitions of Patti (Dot-Marie Jones), a poodle breeder who lures young men t
The rights many of us assumed were settled are being rolled back. Institutions we assumed were permanent are being tested. A democracy is only as strong as the people who show up for it. This year sho
We lost Dolores Huerta on Wednesday, Oct. 28. She died at home in Bakersfield, Calif., surrounded by family. She was 96. You know the words she left us: “Sí, se puede” —“Yes, it can be done.” People p
This column first appeared in The Amendment, a newsletter by Errin Haines, The 19th’s editor-at-large. Subscribe today to get early access to her analysi s. Since 1789, only one out of every 400 peopl
Leila Kuguru has big dreams of attending law school to become a federal prosecutor or public defender. On campus, Kuguru, a senior political science major at Clark Atlanta University, serves as the ch
Molly McGrath, the ACLU’s national democracy campaigns director, discusses what is at stake for voting rights in the United States.
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“In a world where a lot of people are fitting into a mold, you don’t have to,” said Katie Leonard of training for races with her new flat chest exposed. On Oct. 4, 2026, Katie Leonard laced up her sho
