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DeVos Releases ‘Disgraceful’ Proposed Rule on Campus Sexual Violence

Nov 16, 2018, 1:21pm Katelyn Burns

“DeVos is making plain with these unlawful rules that she is turning her back on survivors."

Culture & Conversation Human Rights

Native American Heritage Month Began Before November for This Wisconsin Community

Nov 15, 8:08am Mary Annette Pember

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News Violence

Leading Health Group: Killings by Police Are a Public Health Issue

Nov 14, 11:16am Cynthia Greenlee & Laura Huss

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Analysis Law and Policy

Kentucky Is Trying to Ban Most Abortions After 15 Weeks—and It’s Not Alone

Nov 15, 9:48am Jessica Mason Pieklo

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News

Immigration

On Hunger Strike, Immigrant in ICE Custody Is Hospitalized (Corrected)

Nov 16, 5:10pm Tina Vasquez

Amar Mergensana continued his strike after other detained people ended their protest, telling advocates he would continue to starve himself until "he either died or was released."

[Photo: A scientist looking at a microscope.]

Law and Policy

HHS Holding Fetal Tissue ‘Listening Sessions’ With Scientists and Anti-Choice Groups

Nov 16, 2:07pm Katelyn Burns

An HHS spokesperson confirmed that the agency would be holding listening sessions on fetal tissue research “with various stakeholders e.g. scientists, pro-life groups, ethicists.”

Immigration

Journalist Held by ICE Wins a Stay of Deportation

Nov 16, 12:30pm Laura Huss

ICE is holding journalist Manuel Duran after he was arrested while covering a protest in April. His deportation was imminent until the court granted him a stay on Thursday.

Violence

Influential Panel: Health-Care Providers Need to Screen for Domestic Violence

Nov 16, 9:03am Nicole Knight

New recommendations issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force advise health-care providers to screen patients for intimate partner violence, and to refer them to counseling and support services.

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Commentary

Politics

Progressive Victories Lay the Groundwork for a 2020 Groundswell

Nov 16, 11:07am

Democrats—and the progressive movement—will need to keep their troops mobilized for the next, even bigger, battle in 2020.

Politics

Politicians, Take Note: Secular Voters Are a Powerful, and Growing, Part of the Population

Nov 15, 10:44am

The shift among voters likely means a corresponding shift in what makes a candidate electable.

Mary Annette Pember

On ‘Native Election Night,’ I Know My Mother Would Have Been Proud

Nov 12, 1:38pm

Midterms 2018: Five Questions for the Political Left

Nov 6, 2:26pm

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Analysis

[photo: a young person sits under a voting booth.]

Politics

Amid Recount Chaos, Gillum and Florida Voting Rights Groups Refuse to Concede

Nov 15, 9:20pm Jodi Jacobson

Candidates are going to court and advocates are taking to the streets as recounts proceed in Florida.

[Photo: Josh Hawley standing in front of Trump-Pence signs and other political posters.]

Politics

‘It’s Core to Who I Am’: New GOP Senator Josh Hawley Is Determined to Overturn ‘Roe’

Nov 14, 4:38pm Ally Boguhn

Law and Policy

How Newly Elected Attorneys General Could Thwart Trump’s Worst Moves

Nov 14, 3:14pm Lisa Needham

Law and Policy

The Supreme Court Case That Could Bring Down the Wall of Separation Between Church and State

Nov 12, 3:55pm Andrew L. Seidel

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Multimedia

Placeholder — The 12-foot jingle dress dancer, designed by Chris Lutter of Minneapolis and built by members of the Native and non-Native community in North Wisconsin, makes its debut on Treaty Day, September 30, on Madeline Island.
Mary Annette Pember

Photos: The Madeline Island Jingle Dress Project

In September, journalist Mary Annette Pember visited Madeline Island, the largest of the Apostle Islands located in the Wisconsin area of Lake Superior, to learn more about the Madeline Island Jingle Dress Project ahead of Treaty Day. On that day, real-life jingle dress dancer Fawn Youngbear-Tibbets of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe operated a 12-foot jingle dress […]

Podcast

Boom! Lawyered: Midterm Results and the Voting Rights Battles That Will Follow

Nov 7, 1:20pm Jessica Mason Pieklo & Imani Gandy

Podcast

The Breach—’We Don’t Heal from It.’
Episode One: Investigating Big Horn County

Sep 25, 7:45am Lindsay E. Beyerstein

Podcast

Boom! Lawyered: They’re Coming for Birthright Citizenship

Oct 30, 6:02pm Imani Gandy & Jessica Mason Pieklo

Podcast

CHOICE/LESS: Massachusetts Activist Takes the Wheel for Civil Rights

Oct 23, 8:36am Jenn Stanley

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Investigations

[Photo: Arrington Payne, wearing an olive shirt, stands next to her brother Arhamas]

Human Rights

Cincinnati Public School Students With Disabilities Are Protected on Paper But Say They’re Treated Poorly in Practice

Sep 19, 11:08am Liz Brazile

Parents and students living in an Ohio school district say that the needs of children with legally recognized disabilities aren't being recognized.

[Photo: Maritza Lopez sits in a recliner, smiling and holding her three dogs.]

Environment

Mike Pence Neglected This Poisoned Indiana City. Now, Residents Fight for Each Other.

Aug 31, 9:32am Amy Littlefield

For decades, East Chicago has been home to heavy industry that poisoned the city. But is also home to thousands of people, many of whom have illnesses likely caused by that pollution.

[Photo: Saifa Wall, the leader of the event, speaks during an End Intersex Surgery rally[

Law and Policy

Intersex People Want to End Nonconsensual Surgeries. A California Resolution Is Their ‘Warning Shot.’ (Updated)

Aug 13, 9:37am Amy Littlefield

A growing number of patients have spoken out in recent years about how surgeries, performed when they were too young to understand—much less give consent—have deprived them of sexual pleasure, sterilized them, traumatized them, or altered their bodies to reinforce a gender assignment that is not theirs.

Religion Dispatches

History/Theology

Jonestown at 40: The Real Conspiracy Is More Disturbing Than the Theories

Nov 16, 4:42pm Rebecca Moore

Rather than parse the definition of murder, or deconstruct the hearts of people long expecting to die, it seems most appropriate to conclude that murder and suicide occurred on that day.

Sex/Gender/Justice

There’s Just One Problem With Upcoming Evangelical Summit on Sexual Violence

Nov 15, 4:27pm Dianna Anderson

In focusing on a pastoral response, the GC2 Summit risks replicating many of the same issues of insularity that created the need for #ChurchToo in the first place.

OMFG

The Suburban Shift Putting Republicans in Peril

Nov 13, 3:11pm Murali Balaji

A growing number of Hindu, Sikh, and Muslim voters represent areas that once boasted white, Christian, college-educated voters. It’s easy to see how an administration that's doubled down on xenophobia has imperiled Republicans’ outreach efforts.

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Culture & Conversation

[PHOTO: Black woman cuddles an infant with a hat with pom-pom, while Black man with a wedding ring and wristband lightly touches the child.]

Race

Why Gabrielle Union’s Surrogacy Story Gutted Me—and Gave Me Hope

Nov 16, 1:19pm Brandi Collins-Calhoun

You've heard about Michelle Obama's fertility struggles. But it was seeing actress Gabrielle Union's daughter that reignited my desire to help other people of color become parents.

[Photo: In a park outside, one young woman looks at a tablet while the other looks at her. Both are laughing.]

LGBTQ

Ask a Queer Chick: How Do I Ask Out My (Maybe Straight) Friend?

Nov 16, 10:15am Lindsay King-Miller

Also: How do I get out of my straight relationship if I know I'm gay?

Media

Stan Lee’s Boundary-Pushing Legacy

Nov 13, 1:42pm Angélique Roché

His legacy is reflected in dozens of characters we’ve grown to know and love, and in the opportunities his work made possible.

Imani Gandy

Commentary

As Attorney General, Kris Kobach Would Continue His Work to Suppress Votes

Nov 8, 6:42pm

When he was Kansas secretary of state, Kobach made disenfranchising voters central to his work. There’s little reason to believe his time at the DOJ would be any different.

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