Ms. spurred thought-provoking, policy-changing, narrative-shifting change in 2024—and created new feminist strategies and solutions for the year ahead. In a word: “impact.” Ms. commissioned high-profile analysis and investigative journalism by some of feminism’s best journalists and thinkers, focusing on key issues impacting women and girls at a critical moment across the globe.
Here are the Ms. editors’ top 10 impact articles in the past year, as seen in the print magazine. (Join the Ms. community today and you’ll get the issues delivered straight to your mailbox.)
Fighting Clinic Harassment and Violence: Inside a Clinic Invasion
Winter 2024. By Amanda Robb.
A Ms. investigation into how antiabortion extremists conspired, carried out and were convicted for a violent attack in Washington, D.C.
“Antiabortion extremists—including its most violent actors—are connected and coordinated.”
– Amanda Robb, Ms. award-winning investigative reporter of “Not a Lone Wolf” (Spring 2010)
Comprehensive Women’s Health: Menopause Is Fueling a Movement
Summer 2004. By Jennifer Weiss-Wolf.
Life or Death for Pregnant Women?
Summer 2024. By Carrie N. Baker.
Survivors of Dobbs-related near-fatal experiences shared their stories—now the Supreme Court will decide whether states like Idaho can prohibit doctors from providing emergency abortion care.
“It’s not harmless to wait until the brink of death to intervene in emergency medicine. … Having to wait until that window to intervene is dangerous for people … [and] will have consequences to your life and future fertility and organs and a lot of other things.”
Amplifying Women’s and Feminist Voices in the U.S. and Globally: Women, Life, Freedom
Winter 2024. By Nasrin Sotoudeh.
In an excerpt from her new book, Iranian human rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh gives her firsthand account of how women suffer under gender apartheid.
“No amount of oppression—jailing, torture, death—can stop the generational call for our rights.”
Fighting Project 2025: Misogynist Manifesto
Fall 2024. By Carrie N. Baker.
Project 2025, the extremist blueprint for the next Republican president, maps out the permanent reversal of more than 50 years of hard-fought gains for American women and girls.
“This is an unprecedented embrace of extremism, fascism and religious nationalism orchestrated by the radical right and its dark money backers. We need a coordinated strategy to save America and stop this coup before it’s too late.”
—U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif), Stop Project 2025 Task Force
Changing the Narrative: Explaining Men
Spring 2024. By Jackson Katz.
For the fate of our democracy, it’s time to offer Americans a new narrative.
“If trying to smash the patriarchy has left a vacuum in our ideal of masculinity, it also gives us a chance as a fresh start, an opportunity to take what is useful from models of the past and repurpose it for boys and men today.”
Harnessing the Equal Rights Amendment: Abortion Bans = Sex Discrimination
Spring 2024. By Carrie N. Baker.
In a landmark ruling, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court declared that the state’s ERA safeguards reproductive rights.
Pennsylvania ERA definition: “Equality of rights under law shall not be denied or abridged in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania because of the sex of the individual.”
“The Pennsylvania case is so sweeping and strong in the way that it identifies interference with reproductive decision as a form of sex discrimination and as part of the historic pattern of the oppression of women.”
—Susan J. Frietche, co-executive director of the Women’s Law Project
Building New Coalitions: The Abortion Team
Summer 2024. By Belle Taylor-McGhee.
Meet the coalition of governors who are determined to protect abortion rights and reproductive freedom for all Americans.
“Just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court decides Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health in June 2022, the clock began ticking for women in states harboring abortion bans and trigger laws.”
Sharing Abortion Pills and Information: The Next Dobbs
Spring 2024. By Carrie N. Baker
A Supreme Court case led by a group of antiabortion doctors and dentists against the FDA’s approval of mifepristone attempts to block access nationwide.
“Popular support for abortion pills is high. According to the Pew Research Center, a majority of Americans believe medication abortion should be legal in their state, and fewer than a quarter believe it should be illegal.”
“More than 100 studies have shown mifepristone is safe—safer in fact, than Tylenol. “
“The Supreme Court’s majority will no doubt continue to look for ways to restrict abortion access, and women will continue to share abortion pills and information no matter what happens.”
Feminist Movement-Building: If You Value Democracy, Support Women’s Equality
Fall 2024. By Laleh Ispanhani, Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, Steph Sterling, Naomi Young, Ting Ting Cheng and Christina Uribe
There’s a direct through line connecting abortion rights, the ERA—and a strong democracy.
“The struggle for democracy and for gender, racial and economic justice is one fight. It’s our fight.”
Onward!
