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The current court is often described as composed of six Republican-appointed conservatives and three Democratic-appointed liberals. And that shorthand explains many of the court’s most visible decisio
SCOTUSblog · Jun 3, 2026The current court is often described as composed of six Republican-appointed conservatives and three Democratic-appointed liberals. And that shorthand explains many of the court’s most visible decisio
SCOTUSblog · Jun 3, 2026This story was originally published by Uncloseted Media , an LGBTQ focused investigative news outlet. Since President Donald Trump’s reelection, the full force of the federal government has been worki
Rewire News Group · Jun 3, 2026This timeline traces key moments, movements and leaders that have shaped the fight for women’s rights in the United States and beyond. Compiled by editors at Ms. and researchers from the National Wome
Ms. Magazine · Jun 3, 2026Newly appointed Beaumont ISD Superintendent Sandi Massey speaks during a school board meeting in Beaumont, Texas. Danielle Villasana for ProPublica No state has taken over as many local public school
ProPublica · Jun 3, 2026Over the past 25 years, I have had the privilege of working alongside communities in Haiti, traveling there 35 times through my work with the Raising Haiti Foundation. I have met many people like Mirl
Ms. Magazine · Jun 2, 2026The United States is one of only seven countries lacking a federal mandate for paid maternal or family leave. Within the country, only 13 states and D.C. have paid family and medical leave programs, a
Ms. Magazine · Jun 2, 2026On May 7, 2026, Clarence Thomas became the second longest serving justice in American history, surpassing Justice Stephen Field, who had been a justice for 34 years, 195 days, from 1863-1897. If Thoma
SCOTUSblog · Jun 2, 2026By Okla Jones · Updated June 2, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… Joy Sunday knows what it means to stay the course. Early in her journey, the Nigerian-American actress was figuring
Essence · Jun 2, 2026Reminder: Each Wednesday, SCOTUSblog’s Amy Howe answers your questions about the court in a section called Ask Amy. Send your queries to scotusblog@thedispatch.com . At the Court On Monday, the court
SCOTUSblog · Jun 2, 2026In late 2022, Joey Lobel was frustrated. An avid reader, Lobel, a 31-year-old butcher in Brooklyn, was struggling to find queer books that didn’t have sad endings. “I went on a little spiral and I tho
Rewire News Group · Jun 2, 2026@traceeelissross / Instagram By India Espy-Jones · Updated June 1, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… Flipping through a book of what feels like 1000 nail colors, you’re faced with t
Essence · Jun 2, 2026Of the 22 nominees up for promotion, just two non-white officers made the list, and none were women.
HuffPost Women · Jun 2, 2026When Divya Mathur’s team puts a brand no one has heard of on REVOLVE, it sells through at roughly 90 percent full price. In a crowded marketplace where the conventional response is to spend louder—big
Ms. Magazine · Jun 1, 2026Each month, Ms. provides readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups. Happy June! Happy Pride! Happy Caribbean-American Heritage Month! Happy summer!
Ms. Magazine · Jun 1, 2026A woman is suing an Illinois hospital and OBGYN after allegedly being denied care for her ectopic pregnancy — a condition that can be life-threatening without quick treatment that involves terminating
The 19th · Jun 1, 2026Happy Pride! It’s my favorite time of year: the sun is shining, the queers are coming out of hibernation, my social calendar is filled to the brim with drag fundraisers and gay dance parties, the new
National Women's Law Center · Jun 1, 2026It’s June 1. The official start of hurricane season in the Atlantic , Statehood Day for both Kentucky and Tennessee , and Oscar the Grouch Day . It’s also the beginning of what is likely to be the fin
SCOTUSblog · Jun 1, 2026By Nyla Stanford · Updated June 1, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… Growing up, my skin has found ways to shape shift into craters with deep valley pores . I’d look into the mirro
Essence · Jun 1, 2026Welcome to June – for SCOTUSblog, the busiest month of the year. At the Court On Thursday, the justices met in a private conference to discuss cases and vote on petitions for review . Orders from that
SCOTUSblog · Jun 1, 2026This story was originally reported by Jasmine Mithani and Mariel Padilla of The 19th , and republished through Rewire News Group ‘s partnership with the 19th News Network. Our Sister’s House used to s
Rewire News Group · Jun 1, 2026—President Trump lost his latest appeal effort against paying New York writer E. Jean Carroll an $83.3 million defamation judgment after denying he sexually assaulted her and calling her a liar The po
Ms. Magazine · May 31, 2026On Friday, in response to a lawsuit brought by Democracy Forward, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s “anti-weaponization” fund—which would have directly funded the work of antiabortion
Ms. Magazine · May 30, 2026Paras Griffin/Getty Images for Essence By Mecca Pryor · Updated May 29, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… The Essence Festival of Culture 2026 is happening July 3 – July 5. Don’t mi
Essence · May 29, 2026By Riana Elyse Anderson, PhD, LCP · Updated May 30, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… I am typically not one for the social media drama, but babyyy, if you have a screen and working
Essence · May 29, 2026Weekend 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
Ms. Magazine · May 29, 2026By India Espy-Jones · Updated May 29, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… At 30 years old, taking the food newborns drink right after birth as a supplement sounds unusual. However, fo
Essence · May 29, 2026"Let's join the cicadas this summer and scream."
HuffPost Women · May 29, 2026America is in a dating crisis. Online dating is a multi-billion dollar industry , but young people are growing pessimistic about it . A 2024 study commissioned by the dating app Tinder found that 91 p
Rewire News Group · May 29, 2026As another domestic violence homicide-by-strangulation in the Punjabi Sikh community went largely unreported outside the community itself, we are reminded of how often opportunities for intervention a
Ms. Magazine · May 29, 2026Each week, Rewire News Group editors scour headlines nationwide—from lawsuits over abortion access to LGBTQ+ rights—to bring you the most urgent news in reproductive justice. Here’s this week’s latest
Rewire News Group · May 29, 2026Believe it or not, Supreme Court justices sometimes have jury duty. Justice Sonia Sotomayor “was among the nearly 250 city residents who reported for jury duty at the D.C. Superior Court” on Tuesday,
SCOTUSblog · May 29, 2026The condition formerly known as polycystic ovarian syndrome, commonly referred to as PCOS, has a new name: polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome. PMOS, as it’s now called, is a set of signs and sym
Rewire News Group · May 29, 2026SANDPOINT, Idaho — An anti-abortion pregnancy center on the outskirts of this Idaho Panhandle town greets visitors with an abridged Bible verse painted on the wall of its waiting area: “Come to me & I
The 19th · May 29, 2026Adrian Moore was sharing a blanket with his friends, watching the sun come up over Morton Ranch High School before the first day of his senior year. Parents and teachers milled among the teenagers, ov
The 19th · May 29, 2026A lecture and discussion were about to begin in a local public library. It could have been a scene in New York, London or Melbourne. Yet this event was in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, just 25 kilometers fro
Ms. Magazine · May 28, 2026“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,
Ms. Magazine · May 28, 2026Justice Amy Coney Barrett was the target of a “swatting” incident – a false call reporting gunshots intended to provoke a response from law enforcement officials – on Wednesday night, according to a r
SCOTUSblog · May 28, 2026The Trump administration’s obsession with diversity, equity and inclusion has moved far beyond rhetoric. It is now reshaping how women’s stories get told, whose health crises are allowed to be named,
Ms. Magazine · May 28, 2026Readers respond to an article by Roe McDermott saying that women don’t need laws to make them ‘reflect’ on their choices Well done to Roe McDermott for saying what is rarely said – that abortion doesn
The Guardian Women · May 28, 2026By India Espy-Jones · Updated May 28, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… Blush. Then more blush. Then even more blush. For Ngozi Esther Edeme , also known as Painted By Esther, too m
Essence · May 28, 2026Courtesy of Shanti Das By Elizabeth Ayoola · Updated May 28, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… For Silence the Shame founder Shanti Das , breaking the silence around mental health i
Essence · May 28, 2026What I experienced during my 2014 run for office wasn’t entirely unfamiliar to me. The year before, I had run for president of the Young Democrats of America (YDA), a national political party office r
Ms. Magazine · May 28, 2026By India Espy-Jones · Updated May 28, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… Is that enough? Instead of putting down the blush, you compulsively pat on even more. After all, in 2026, the
Essence · May 28, 2026How to Counter 10 False Narratives About Abortion in an Age of Misinformation Misinformation about abortion care is rampant and being…
Guttmacher Institute · May 28, 2026An anti-abortion group last month sued seven Utah fertility clinics, claiming their disposal of embryos as part of the in vitro fertilization process violates the state’s wrongful death law. The minis
Rewire News Group · May 28, 2026Our Sister’s House used to staff a 24-hour hotline. No matter what time of day a domestic violence survivor called for help, an advocate would be able to help them stay safe. But then a lack of fundin
The 19th · May 28, 2026B002 By ESSENCE Editors · Updated May 28, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… Prior to a few months ago, my knowledge of golf was limited to Tiger Woods, the Masters Tournament, the b
Essence · May 28, 2026By India Espy-Jones · Updated May 27, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… In just over one month, your flight will touch down in New Orleans for the 2026 Essence Festival of Culture .
Essence · May 28, 2026In subway stations and under the shade of trees across New York City, Allison Julien met with domestic workers. She wanted to talk to them about their basic rights — the ones they’d been denied for de
The 19th · May 28, 2026Click to expand Image A Pride flag near the Russian coat of arms during a protest outside the Russian embassy in London, March 16, 2023. © 2023 Krisztian Elek/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
Human Rights Watch · May 28, 2026Click to expand Image People at a polling station during a parliamentary election in Yerevan, Armenia, June 20, 2021. © 2021 Sergei Grits/AP Photo Armenia will hold parliamentary elections on June 7 t
Human Rights Watch · May 28, 2026Click to expand Image People at a polling station during a parliamentary election in Yerevan, Armenia, June 20, 2021. © 2021 Sergei Grits/AP Photo Armenia will hold parliamentary elections on June 7 t
Human Rights Watch · May 28, 2026What does it mean to be revolutionary today?
The 19th · May 27, 2026Meet the revolutionaries still founding America
The 19th · May 27, 2026Republicans are focusing on one question in one of November’s top races: Is the Democrat a real man? Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who clinched the GOP’s nomination for U.S. Senate on Tuesday ni
The 19th · May 27, 2026Attacks 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, Ca
Ms. Magazine · May 27, 2026There is no shortage of cases of torture in the headlines. Across today’s crises—from Ukraine to Sudan, Myanmar to Gaza—the allegations are graphic and devastating. But once a legal case closes or the
Ms. Magazine · May 27, 2026Click to expand Image A woman is detained by US federal agents after exiting a court hearing in immigration court at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in New York City, on September 3, 2025. © 2025
Human Rights Watch · May 27, 2026(Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images) By Shelby Stewart · Updated May 27, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… In a decisive primary runoff victory Tuesday night, Christian Menefee sec
Essence · May 27, 2026By Shelby Stewart · Updated May 27, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… In a decisive primary runoff victory Tuesday night, Christian Menefee secured the Democratic nomination for Tex
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