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Cecile Richards, the former president of Planned Parenthood, has spent her career fighting for abortion rights. Now, Richards has cast her vote for Vice President Kamala Harris in the first presidential election post-Roe v. Wade, where abortion has taken center stage like none other before it. “I voted early in New York City and was […]
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This piece was published in partnership with In These Times. If you step foot on a historically Black campus or university (HBCU) this week, you might see “Black Voters Matter” signs wedged in the grass or groups of students shuffling to and from class with “I voted” stickers affixed to their shirts. But while this […]
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Angela Pluta walked into the visitors’ center at the Malcolm X Memorial Foundation in Omaha, Nebraska, around 10 a.m. last Friday, unsure of what to expect. She was looking for a job and someone at a safe house for formerly incarcerated women, where she has been living, told Pluta that the center had an opening […]
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When Vanessa Lynch learned that a fracking well pad would sit right next to the park where her two kids used to play soccer, she began to research potential health hazards. The more she learned, the more alarmed she became. Though it is most commonly discussed as a climate change contributor, fracking is also linked […]
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During an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in Arizona, former President Donald Trump on Thursday suggested that former Rep. Liz Cheney — one of his highest-profile Republican critics — should be shot for being a “radical war hawk.” On stage, Carlson asked Trump how he felt watching Cheney, whom the conservative media host described […]
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On June 27 — the day of the first and only presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump — only 37 percent of Americans said they had a favorable opinion of Vice President Kamala Harris. More than half — 54 percent — held an unfavorable opinion, according to 538. By August 5, […]
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When the Uncommitted Movement, formed to register Democratic voters’ objections to U.S. support for Israel in the war in Gaza, wanted to put forward a speaker for the summer’s Democratic National Convention (DNC), they suggested Ruwa Romman. Romman made history in 2022 as the first Palestinian American elected in the state of Georgia. Even before […]
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At a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Wednesday, former President Donald Trump declared he would be a “protector of women … whether the women like it or not.” He added that, despite warnings from his staff to stop saying so, he was committed to using his “protector” line: “I’m going to protect them from […]
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This piece was published in partnership with Them. Sign up for The Agenda, Them‘s news and politics newsletter, delivered to your inbox every Thursday. A Supreme Court case that will decide whether Tennessee can continue to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth could imperil the ability of all Americans to make decisions about their health care, experts say. […]
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