Trump Defends Convicted Criminal Arpaio, Hints Again at Pardon
“His nod to Arpaio is the latest sign of the white supremacy that is governing the White House and it will not be pardoned."
News
Charlottesville’s Confederate Monuments Shrouded in Black
Charlottesville officials voted to cover the statues that have drawn violent white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups to the city.
Lawsuit: Trump’s Election Commission Is Hiding Public Information
“If the commission is being run in order to advance a misleading narrative about voter fraud, it threatens to undermine fair access to our democracy."
Trial Date Set for Ohio Woman Accused of Killing Baby After Reporting Stillbirth
“It seems as if the documented frequency of miscarriages or fetal demise is forgotten and the immediate thought is foul play."
Will Trump Pardon ‘America’s Best-Known Racial Profiler’?
Joe Arpaio was recently convicted of criminal contempt for disobeying a court order stemming from a racial profiling case that required him to stop targeting undocumented people.
Commentary
Trump Contradicts His Pro-Police Platform With Proposed Cuts to Domestic Violence Programs
Although President Donald Trump has said it's his priority to protect law enforcement, his budget would put countless lives in jeopardy. As we see frequently reported in the news, officers are more often killed when responding to domestic dispute calls than other calls.
Donald Trump Is Using the Founding Fathers’ Racism to Cloak Present-Day White Nationalism
Hopscotching across disparate time periods and ideologies, Trump's comments conflate the politics of limited progress with those of no progress.
Analysis
This Trump Lawyer Has Worked With Anti-Choice Radicals for Decades
It seems Republican President Donald Trump and Troy Newman don’t just share an affinity for dangerous anti-choice rhetoric and policy—they also share a lawyer.
Multimedia
The Breach: Fighting Trump’s Efforts to Suppress the Vote
Natasha Merle of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund explains their lawsuit against President Trump’s “Election Integrity Commission” and what citizens can do to combat systemic efforts to suppress the votes of communities of color.
Investigations
Group Behind Planned Parenthood Attack Videos Raised $450,000 in 2015, But Donors Still Shadowy
The Center for Medical Progress fought all the way to the Supreme Court in late 2015 to try to avoid handing over information containing the identity of “supporters."
Trump Administration at Odds With Scientists and Advocates
In particular, Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price is connected to the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, an extreme libertarian doctors group that espouses many of the lies about abortion safety long rejected by the medical and scientific communities.
HHS Secretary Sells Off Controversial Stock Amid Questions Over His Ethical Judgment
Price may hope the divestitures will bring an end to the questions over his judgment when it came to investing in companies whose futures he could help determine. Yet, there is enough information on the public record to continue to cast the specter of doubt.
Texas Law Part of Anti-Choice Strategy to Pretend Abortion Care Is Dangerous
Republican legislators and anti-choice activists refuse to accept overwhelming evidence showing that abortion is an exceedingly safe medical procedure.
Culture & Conversation
On Diapers and the Divine: Book Explores Parenting as Spiritual Practice
Mothering made Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg feel more connected to God, but her book Nurture the Wow doesn't always acknowledge that feeling is not universal.
‘Coffee, Cake, and True Islam’: How a Muslim Community Is Fighting Islamophobia
“I’m not going to say we all sing 'Kumbaya' and get along perfectly, but [the campaign has] created a platform where people can be transparent and ask questions about Islam without fear of intimidation or backlash.”
The Paradox of Black Women and Police Violence: A Q&A With Andrea Ritchie
In her new book Invisible No More, Ritchie points out that Black women have been on the forefront of organizing against police and state violence, particularly against Black men. So why is it so hard to recognize that they and other women of color are targets of such brutality?
Indiana Republicans Apparently Don’t Want Black People to Vote
Do you know what Black people tend to do that Republicans hate? Vote for Democrats.
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Media Memo: Yes, Donald Trump Is a White Supremacist
If someone in power consistently and persistently promotes and upholds the values of white supremacy and white nationalism, and both cultivates and depends on maintaining his power through these ideologies, why do we stop short of naming what it is?
Anti-Choice Legal Attacks Make It Harder to Access Clinics Themselves
In addition to helping pass abortion restrictions at the state level, anti-choice activists are challenging those laws that do protect clinics and patients.
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- Dear Men of "The Breakfast Club": Trans Women Aren’t a Prop, Ploy, or Sexual Predators Allure
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