2025 was a year marked by attacks on reproductive freedom, including a staggering wave of forced Planned Parenthood closures. About 50 of Planned Parenthood’s 600 locations have shut down as of Decemb
Ms. Magazine · Feb 10, 2026Like a 19th-century sugar cane plantation brought to life, Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show staged a visually rich jíbaro vision of Puerto Rico—the foundational cultural figure representing the is
Ms. Magazine · Feb 9, 2026For the first time in 47 years, teachers are going on strike in a city that routinely ranks among the world's most expensive: San Francisco. The city’s more than 100 public schools are closed after th
The 19th · Feb 9, 2026Number of Brick-and-Mortar Abortion Clinics Declined Slightly Between 2024 and 2025 Report sramashwar <time datetime="2026-02-09T10:24:01-07:00" title=...
Guttmacher Institute · Feb 9, 2026In the coming days, Congress is poised to take up yet another vote on the so-called SAVE (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility) America Act. While the bill has been debated before, its renewed momentu
Ms. Magazine · Feb 9, 2026It's called 'algospeak,' and it looks like 's3x,' 'le$bian,' and 'c00chie.' Some creators swear by it, but experts say it may increase stigma. The post Sex Educators Are Self-Censoring Online to Avoid
Rewire News Group · Feb 9, 2026Rhonda Anderson has spent nearly three decades fighting for clean air and water in Detroit. As an environmental justice organizer with the Sierra Club, she led campaigns to raise awareness about lead
The 19th · Feb 9, 2026As countries across Europe roll out national programs to confront misogyny in schools, the United States still lacks a coordinated response. Responding to school-based gender harassment, the politiciz
Ms. Magazine · Feb 9, 2026Star Gates, a nonbinary transfeminine person in Ohio, realized something important a few months ago: She didn’t want to waste time pretending to be someone else. Her realization was sparked by “I Saw
The 19th · Feb 9, 2026The post “I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility appeared first on ProPublica .
ProPublica · Feb 9, 2026A gripping portrait of a Juárez factory worker who becomes an avenger after systemic violence against women goes unpunished, The Huntress (or La Cazadora ) explores how myth, motherhood and desperatio
Ms. Magazine · Feb 8, 2026In each of our communities, every day seems to announce itself. Whistles and shouts for our neighbors punctuate each hour, as blades of helicopters and flight drills slice through the air into the nig
Ms. Magazine · Feb 6, 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 · Feb 6, 2026President Donald Trump's efforts to dismantle the Department of Education has created a crisis that critics long feared: leaving marginalized students vulnerable to misconduct with little federal inte
The 19th · Feb 6, 2026This story was co-published with The 74, a nonprofit newsroom covering education and child care in America. Sarah Newberry Moore had long believed that motherhood would mark the end of her career sail
The 19th · Feb 6, 2026Plus: Arkansas women challenge the state's abortion ban and a Texas man sues a California doctor under a new bounty hunter law. The post Planned Parenthood Drops Lawsuit Against Trump Administration O
Rewire News Group · Feb 6, 2026It's not yet clear how this influx is influencing the cost and quality of fertility care. But other studies on private equity investments in health care could provide some clues. The post Fertility Cl
Rewire News Group · Feb 6, 2026Featuring the cases of Amber Heard, Gisèle Pelicot, Brittany Higgins, Colombian journalists at Volcánicas and others, Silenced traces a global pattern of defamation suits used to punish survivors and
Ms. Magazine · Feb 6, 2026Mike Holmes, 59, started watching “Heated Rivalry” because of the sex. “The first two episodes are the spiciest and, of course, that’s fun to watch,” he told The 19th. The gay hockey romance has becom
The 19th · Feb 6, 2026Guttmacher acting co-CEO on the importance of ensuring access to medication abortion at US Senate sramashwar February 5, 2026 <div class="field field--na...
Guttmacher Institute · Feb 5, 2026Abortion has remained widely available to people living in states with bans thanks to abortion medication sent through the mail. But a lawsuit — the first one filed under a new Texas law — could disma
The 19th · Feb 5, 2026The Department of Justice has released more than 3 million pages of records related to Jeffrey Epstein. For decades, survivors have begged for answers and accountability. But they say the latest tranc
Ms. Magazine · Feb 5, 2026With Sundance alumni like director Chloé Zhao crediting its labs for shaping their careers, the festival’s legacy of nurturing independent storytellers underscores why Robert Redford’s artist-first vi
Ms. Magazine · Feb 5, 2026SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — Katie Paris opened a “Unite for Springfield” Zoom gathering of more than 4,000 people earlier this week by asking participants to share one thing in the chat that was giving them h
The 19th · Feb 5, 2026Period products like pads and tampons are considered an essential public health need, but access for women and trans people held in federal custody — from prisons to immigration detention centers — re
The 19th · Feb 5, 2026In 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 Ke
Ms. Magazine · Feb 5, 2026There is a shift happening in the labor force that favors men in general, and white men in particular. And Black women—who historically have found more job security and upward mobility in federal empl
Ms. Magazine · Feb 5, 2026Each month, Ms. provides readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups. There are hundreds of books being released every month, and it is challenging to
Ms. Magazine · Feb 5, 2026The Trump administration is escalating its attacks on the First Amendment, and along with it, government accountability. The post The Justice Department Tries to Prosecute Black Journalists (Podcast)
Rewire News Group · Feb 5, 2026A conversation between legal scholar Shoshanna Ehrlich and Brigitte Amiri, deputy director of the ACLU’s Reproductive Freedom Project. "In the first Trump administration, we still had Roe . By losing
Ms. Magazine · Feb 5, 2026The post After Years of Silence, Texas Medical Board Issues Training for Doctors on How to Legally Provide Abortions appeared first on ProPublica .
ProPublica · Feb 5, 2026Jennifer Driver (State Innovation Exchange) on abortion ballot initiatives & anti-democratic attacks sramashwar February 4, 2026 <div class="field ...
Guttmacher Institute · Feb 4, 2026Guttmacher's Candace Gibson on obstacles to abortion care in the US sramashwar February 4, 2026 <div class="field field--name-field-exclude-from-search ...
Guttmacher Institute · Feb 4, 2026The year was 2018, and Lawrence Krauss, the prominent physicist and scholar of the cosmos, was facing a Title IX investigation at Arizona State University. BuzzFeed News had just reported on allegatio
The 19th · Feb 4, 2026Paula Avila-Guillen of Women's Equality Center on the Latin American reproductive rights landscape sramashwar February 4, 2026 <div class="field field--...
Guttmacher Institute · Feb 4, 2026Few Utahns have witnessed the effects of withdrawing transgender kids’ access to care as Collin Kuhn, a clinical child and adolescent psychologist who specializes in helping their clients navigate cha
The 19th · Feb 4, 2026State lawmakers in Indiana, South Carolina, Florida, and Wisconsin have introduced bills that would restrict abortion pill access. The post Bills Cracking Down on Abortion Pills Advance in States That
Rewire News Group · Feb 4, 2026Shortly after she graduated from Princeton University, Mikayla Blaska was selected by a unit commander to attend Ranger School, one of the toughest training courses in the Army. For two months, she en
The 19th · Feb 4, 2026The post A Mississippi Synagogue Was Attacked in 1967 and 2026. The Antisemitic Rhetoric Looked the Same Then and Now. appeared first on ProPublica .
ProPublica · Feb 4, 2026Guttmacher's Kelly Baden on post-Roe attacks by abortion opponents sramashwar February 3, 2026 <div class="field field--name-field-exclude-from-search fie...
Guttmacher Institute · Feb 3, 2026As unbelievable as it sounds, President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice has deployed the FACE Act—not against antiabortion extremists who invade clinics and terrorize patients, but against journa
Ms. Magazine · Feb 3, 2026The Road to Progress: The Intersection of State Policies on Gender Race and Reproductive Rights sramashwar February 3, 2026 <div class="field field--name-...
Guttmacher Institute · Feb 3, 2026Guttmacher at #UNGA79: Summit of the Future for SRHR Advocacy sramashwar February 3, 2026 <div class="field field--name-field-exclude-from-search field--t...
Guttmacher Institute · Feb 3, 2026On the road to Beijing+30 sramashwar February 3, 2026 <div class="field field--name-field-exclude-from-search field--type-search-api-exclude-entity field-...
Guttmacher Institute · Feb 3, 2026What is Beijing+30? sramashwar February 3, 2026 <div class="field field--name-field-exclude-from-search field--type-search-api-exclude-entity field--label...
Guttmacher Institute · Feb 3, 2026Kelly Baden on abortion bans at #IWPR Power+ Summit 2024 sramashwar February 3, 2026 <div class="field field--name-field-exclude-from-search field--type-s...
Guttmacher Institute · Feb 3, 2026Addressing the ongoing need for reproductive rights protection | Beijing+30 UNECE review sramashwar February 3, 2026 <div class="field field--name-field-...
Guttmacher Institute · Feb 3, 2026Abortion access for adolescents | Candace Gibson, Guttmacher Institute sramashwar February 3, 2026 <div class="field field--name-field-exclude-from-search...
Guttmacher Institute · Feb 3, 2026Note: Brittany Peng was a part of the National Women’s Law Center’s Gender Justice Youth Council and the views expressed below belong solely to the author and are not necessarily representative of NWL
National Women's Law Center · Feb 3, 2026Abortion access for adolescents in the US after Dobbs | Candace Gibson & Michelle Slaybaugh sramashwar February 3, 2026 <div class="field field--name...
Guttmacher Institute · Feb 3, 2026Kelly Baden on hope at #IWPR Power+ Summit 2024 sramashwar February 3, 2026 <div class="field field--name-field-exclude-from-search field--type-search-ap...
Guttmacher Institute · Feb 3, 2026Survivors of online sexual exploitation and abuse are not just confronting individual perpetrators—they are up against systems that were never designed to protect them. A new report by Equality Now an
Ms. Magazine · Feb 3, 2026This article was published with The Sick Times, a nonprofit newsroom covering long COVID. Justin Lin’s daughter, Serena, developed long COVID in seventh grade. For more than three years, she has exper
The 19th · Feb 3, 2026The 19th is excited to announce that applications are now open for the 2026-27 cohort of the Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Fellowships — a transformative opportunity for alums of Historically Black Col
The 19th · Feb 3, 2026Afghanistan. Myanmar. Syria. The Democratic Republic of the Congo. Over the last 80 years, there has rarely been a situation of atrocity that has not been marked by the commission of crimes against hu
Ms. Magazine · Feb 3, 2026The post Mass. Governor Proposes Eliminating Statute of Limitations for Rape When DNA Evidence Exists appeared first on ProPublica .
ProPublica · Feb 3, 2026February 2, 2025—Pathfinder International announces its strategic partnership with the global Every Pregnancy coalition during the 2026 For Mama campaign. The For Mama campaign brings attention to pro
Pathfinder International · Feb 3, 2026Guttmacher and Partners Release New Metric to Measure Need for Contraceptive Services in the United States February 3, 2026 mcherins <time datetime="2026-02-03T08:06:15-07:00" title="Tuesday, February
Guttmacher Institute · Feb 3, 2026How to explain armed federal agents to a kid? In Minneapolis, parents must figure that out, while teachers face half-empty classrooms as students stay home for fear of abduction. The post ‘Bad Guys Ar
Rewire News Group · Feb 3, 2026More than a year into his second term, President Donald Trump has appointed 27 judges to the federal bench. Seventeen of these judges — roughly 63 percent — are White men. Seven of them, or 25 percent
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