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Will Trump Starve SNAP Households to Get His Wall?

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Jan 15, 2019, 8:49am Rebecca Vallas

Even with February benefits protected, the Trump administration’s chaotic handling of the shutdown is starting to create problems for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Robyn Powell

Commentary Human Rights

What People With Disabilities Should Expect From the New Congress

Jan 15, 10:15am

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Analysis Human Rights

The Rape of an Arizona Woman in a Coma Is Not an Isolated Incident

Jan 10, 12:02pm Robyn Powell

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Culture & Conversation Media

The Real Question Isn’t How to Save Abortion Rights, but How to Prepare for Their Absence

Jan 11, 12:07pm Lindsay King-Miller

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Abortion

Elections Matter: Rhode Island Legislators Primed to Safeguard Abortion Rights

Jan 15, 5:18pm Auditi Guha

Rhode Island Democrats might finally have the votes to get the Reproductive Health Care Act to the governor's desk in 2019.

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Law and Policy

Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus Vows to Use New House Majority to Take on Trump in 2019

Jan 15, 5:11pm Ally Boguhn

Rep. Judy Chu vowed that the Pro-Choice Caucus would "use every legislative and oversight tool in our power to investigate" Trump's attacks on reproductive health care.

[Photo: Governor Gretchen Whitmer dons a serious look as she speaks to the press.]

Law and Policy

Will Michigan Governor End State Funding for Anti-Choice Clinic Network?

Jan 14, 5:33pm Dennis Carter

Michigan Republicans have pumped millions into Real Alternatives, which has used taxpayer money to pay for "ineffective advertising and pay increases for its executives," according to a watchdog organization.

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Violence

Fascists Were Once Again Outnumbered by Counter-Protesters—This Time in Wisconsin

Jan 14, 1:10pm Alys Brooks

Far-right groups came to the Wisconsin State Capitol ostensibly to protest a gun regulation supported by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.

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Commentary

Law and Policy

Women and Girls of Color Need Justice Too

Jan 14, 11:16am

Many supporters of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’ proposed changes appear to only truly be concerned about the white men and boys who are finally being exposed for their perpetration and held accountable.

Media

Right-Wing Media Manufactures Outrage About CNN Ignoring Right-Wing Media

Jan 11, 5:30pm

Don't buy the latest far-right media lies about CNN driving a political agenda about President Trump's proposed border wall.

Black Men Should Care About Survivors, No Matter How Many White Men Are Accused

Jan 11, 10:39am

Jeff Hauser

It’s Time for Congress’ New Members to Use Their Long-Forgotten Oversight Powers

Jan 10, 11:15am

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Analysis

Law and Policy

‘Feminist’ Groups Teaming Up With Phyllis Schlafly’s Organization to Put Trans Kids’ Safety at Risk

Jan 11, 9:47am Heron Greenesmith

Phyllis Schlafly campaigned to stop the Equal Rights Amendment. At the Supreme Court, two self-identified feminist groups are taking the same side as the ultra-conservative policy organization she founded.

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Law and Policy

Supreme Court Weighs Indiana Law Requiring Fetal Burial After Miscarriages

Jan 9, 9:44am Jessica Mason Pieklo

Human Rights

Cyntoia Brown Will Go Free in August, But There Are More Survivors Behind Bars Who Still Need Help

Jan 8, 4:22pm Victoria Law

Law and Policy

Congressional Democrats Came out Swinging on Voting Rights. Will State-Level Democrats Follow?

Jan 4, 10:19am Dennis Carter

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Multimedia

Boom! Lawyered: Day One of William Barr’s Confirmation Hearings

Rewire.News legal experts Jessica Mason Pieklo and Imani Gandy sift through the testimony of Attorney General nominee William Barr, including his subtle but serious signals that he might be a danger to civil rights and immigration justice.

Podcast

Boom! Lawyered: Bye-Bye, Birth Control Benefit?

Jan 10, 2:49pm Imani Gandy & Jessica Mason Pieklo

Photos

Photos: The Madeline Island Jingle Dress Project

Nov 15, 8:08am Rewire.News Staff

Podcast

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

Sep 25, 7:45am Lindsay E. Beyerstein

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Investigations

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Health Systems

Meet Christus, the US Catholic Health Chain Restricting Access to Reproductive Care in Mexico

Nov 27, 9:06am Amy Littlefield & Laura Gottesdiener

As Mexico's largest Catholic health-care system, Christus restricts a range of reproductive health services, including contraceptives, sterilization, abortion, and in vitro fertilization.

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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.

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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.

Religion Dispatches

Culture

Heavenly Bodies Was the Most Popular Exhibit in the History of the Met—Here’s Why That’s a Problem

Jan 11, 4:45pm Liz Bucar

A museum’s charge is to educate, so I'm left wondering whether the curators were afraid of offending their Vatican partners or whether they were simply unwilling to take the religious content seriously.

New Books

‘America First’ and the Origin of the Modern Jewish Conspiracy

Jan 9, 2:23pm Eric C. Miller

Historian Paul Hanebrink discusses the origin and uses of the Judeo-Bolshevik myth as a grand conspiracy that inspired the Holocaust and how crucial parts of it survived under the umbrella of "Judeo-Christian civilization."

OMFG

Benefit of the Doubt? The Shaky Ethics of Giving Prime Time to Trump’s Propaganda

Jan 9, 12:50pm Peter Laarman

There was no "ethical dilemma" here for the networks. As Princeton's Eddie Glaude said on MSNBC, the ethical imperative here was to deny giving critical aid and support to a congenital liar and manipulator.

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Culture & Conversation

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Media

‘It Was All a Dream’ Shows How Black Millennials Are Redefining Success in the Post-Obama Era

Jan 15, 2:30pm Aaron Ross Coleman

"Maybe our mobility shouldn’t always be measured like our White millennial peers,” the author writes. “Maybe it’s measured in joy and pleasure.”

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Media

Fear and Fact-Checking: What You Face When Making a Film About Sexual Abuse

Jan 11, 2:41pm Leila Wills

Disclosing abuse—and trying to document it—can be difficult and dangerous.

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Media

Take Me Home, Zombie Roads: A West Virginian on ‘Fallout 76’

Jan 11, 8:55am Sarah Einstein

So many politicians, writers, and journalists get the complex narratives of Appalachia wrong—yet a new video game gets West Virginia mostly right.

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Analysis

I Can’t Believe It’s 2019 and We’re Still Arguing About the Birth Control Benefit (Updated)

Jan 9, 2:42pm Imani Gandy

Regulations that would undercut the birth control benefit are set to go into effect January 14—but not if a handful of states have anything to say about it in federal court this week.

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