A single mother on the verge of becoming a doctor confronts an inflexible loan cap that punishes low-income parenting students and threatens to derail years of sacrifice.
The Resistance Is Here
This week marks the 100th day of Donald Trump’s presidency, and a record number of Americans are unhappy with him and his administration.
During Trump’s first term, public demonstrations of disapproval were rapid and massively visible. This time around, it’s building in a different way.
Now is the time for all of us to practice democracy daily—by staying informed; talking with our friends, coworkers and family members; calling our representatives; and showing up at meetings, rallies and events.
In Just 100 Days, Trump Has Already Attempted to Enact One-Third of Project 2025 Agenda
A new community-based tracker reveals how quickly the Trump administration is advancing policies that erode civil rights, healthcare access and worker protections.
Medicaid Cuts Will Raise Costs for Millions of Women
Over 70 million people, including 13 million women of reproductive age, are enrolled in Medicaid—America’s biggest single health insurance program. Now, congressional Republicans are ready to take an axe to it. Proposed Republican cuts to Medicaid would strip millions of women of affordable access to birth control, prenatal care, STI treatment and other essential healthcare services.
How Trump’s America Is Normalizing Violence Against Women
Under Trump’s America, violence against women isn’t just ignored—it’s become a deliberate political strategy. Powerful men accused of abuse are actively protected and celebrated by the Trump administration, while survivors and those who stand up for them are punished and silenced. (Just look at the attacks and public shaming Christine Blasey Ford had to endure after courageously coming forward with her sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh.) From legal interventions and judicial appointments to funding cuts, Trump has systematically dismantled protections for women and emboldened those who harm them.
Who’s Behind the SAVE Act?
Billionaire MAGA donors, anti-women politicians and Trump loyalists are the forces behind Republicans’ dangerous assault on voting rights.
‘Companion’ Unmasks the Horror Beneath the Tradwife Fantasy
Companion starts with a dreamy tradwife fantasy and ends in a blood-soaked feminist reckoning. Writer-director Drew Hancock’s film may nod to Scream, Ex Machina and Black Mirror, but it carves out its own smart, brutal allegory for waking up from the fantasy of obedience. Sophie Thatcher’s performance anchors the story as Iris evolves from Stepford-perfect to gloriously feral, reminding us that when women start asking questions, the whole system bleeds.
U.S. Citizen Children Are the Latest Casualty in Trump’s Immigration War
On Friday, a 2-year-old U.S. citizen was deported with “no meaningful process,” according to a federal judge. She’s one of several U.S. citizen children being torn from their home, sent to foreign countries without due process, and stripped of their rights and protection.
This little girl—and all U.S. citizen children of immigrant parents—deserves to be safe from deportation. She needs to know that the people around her love her and want to do what’s best for her. She needs to grow up in a country that wants her to thrive and succeed. She needs to believe that her family and everyone else will be able to count on the government to protect them from harm, and when necessary, to protect her from the government itself. In this moment, that may seem like a tall order, but only if we stand by while abuses like this happen.
The government has the power to find and return these families. As a former DHS official, I know that deportation planes can be held, individuals can be taken off the manifest, and that officials can find and return people who have been wrongfully deported. It is not a question of resources, or logistics, or diplomatic niceties, or court orders. It’s a question of returning to the idea that immigration law is not a vehicle for expelling one’s enemies, but a set of laws that replicate the fundamental principles of dignity, justice and a fair day in court.
Debunking the Trump Administration’s Anti-Autism Ableism
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a speech on April 16 in which he made many false assertions about autism.
I’ve heard these harmful, ableist myths about autism my whole life—now that they’re coming from the head of HHS, I’m calling them out one by one.
‘Rape Club’: Trial Set for Prison Guard Accused of Sexual Abuse in Notorious California Women’s Prison
Earlier this month, a jury of ten men and two women was unable to come to a unanimous decision after a week’s deliberation. They were judging the trial of former correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith, nicknamed “Dirty Dick,” accused of 15 counts of sexual misconduct. Smith was the last correctional officer to be charged with abuse at the now-shut-down FCI Dublin, as part of a sprawling federal investigation that convicted seven officers, including the prison’s warden and chaplain.