Democracy

I have a strong belief that, as U.S. citizens, we have the responsibility to take time to study the candidates and the issues and then go vote. Until you don’t…

“Are these pills legit? If I send money, am I even going to get these pills?” These are the kinds of questions people have when they are curious about ordering…

In the weeks since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, many cities and other jurisdictions have announced their intention to use local powers to protect access to abortion.…

If police are called to a scene, there’s a pretty good chance somebody there is having a bad day. That scene might represent a singularly traumatic moment in the life…

Today, July 14, would have been Shafilea Ahmed’s 36th birthday. She isn’t here to celebrate it, however, because she was murdered by her parents 19 years ago in a so-called “honor…

Bodily autonomy, the ability for individuals to make choices about their bodies without fear, violence, or coercion, is not afforded to all people equally. Laws and economic and social barriers…

Popular culture tends to focus on a few elements of pregnancy: morning sickness, the growing baby bump, and, of course, mood swings. But that ignores more dangerous, less well-known conditions associated with pregnancy.…

Lesbian bars in the United States are vanishingly rare. Events that commemorate them show the value queer spaces have in communities, research shows. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, there…

During the pandemic, public schools were able to provide free meals to all students, regardless of income, due to federal waivers. Starting this fall, that access is going away for…

The Buffalo supermarket shooting that killed ten Black Americans thrust the idea of “replacement theory” into the public consciousness. The shooter believed that an increasingly diverse society was forever altering…

On the morning of July 4, President Joe Biden hailed the day as one to “celebrate the goodness of our nation.” Shortly after his tweet, a gunman on a rooftop…