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Analysis Immigration

Abolish ICE: Beyond a Slogan

Oct 10, 2018, 7:00am Tina Vasquez

What does it look like to #AbolishICE? Envisioning community-based alternatives to a violent immigration system.

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Culture & Conversation Media

How We’re Getting By: A Survival Guide for Journalists

Oct 11, 9:41am Rewire.News Staff

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Analysis Law and Policy

Changing the Rules to Rig the Game: Our Supreme Court’s Hypocrisy on Civil Rights

Oct 8, 5:21pm Leah Aden

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Analysis Politics

Trump Administration’s Fetal Tissue Policy Review the Latest in the ‘Far-Right War Against Science’

Oct 3, 3:26pm Katelyn Burns & Laura Huss

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Report Details the Real Toll of Trump’s Family Separation Policy

Oct 11, 1:53pm Tina Vasquez

"The United States is violating domestic law, international law, asylum law, judicial standards of impartiality—you name it, we're doing it as a country."

Politics

GOP’s Appeal to Latino Voters in Florida Governor’s Race Is Falling Flat

Oct 11, 8:41am Nicole Knight

Democrat Andrew Gillum is focusing on Medicaid expansion and Medicare for all, and appealing to Puerto Ricans in a state that hasn't elected a Democrat to the governor's mansion since 1994.

Law and Policy

Senate Republicans Back Trump’s ‘Junk’ Health-Care Plans in Floor Vote

Oct 10, 12:41pm Katelyn Burns

Health care has emerged as a key issue in this year’s midterm elections, as GOP elected officials scramble to deal with a significant shift in the popularity of Obamacare.

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Law and Policy

Conservative Federal Judge Nixes Indian Child Welfare Act

Oct 9, 4:41pm Jessica Mason Pieklo

The ruling, if left in place, could tee up the decades-old law for U.S. Supreme Court review.

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Fat, Black Women’s Bodies Are Under Attack. Why Did It Take a Thin White Man to Get Our Cries Heard?

Oct 12, 10:56am

I know that, as a fat Black woman, seeking health care can be traumatic and difficult. The lived experiences of fat people and Black people—specifically Black women—should be enough.

Health Systems

If Trump Had to Navigate the Same Medicare Choices Many Older Americans Do, Would He Still Lie About It?

Oct 11, 4:02pm

This isn’t a health-care service and delivery system. It’s a byzantine maze constructed by the GOP decades ago.

Black Women Candidates: A Smart Investment

Oct 11, 12:10pm

Journalists and Media: Stop Feeding the Right-Wing Spin Machine

Oct 9, 1:08pm

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How the Supreme Court Could Kill Your Ability to Sue for Medicaid Benefits—and Gut Planned Parenthood Funding in the Process

Oct 10, 5:41pm Jessica Mason Pieklo

A pair of cases defending Kansas and Louisiana's attempts to kick the reproductive health provider out of their Medicaid programs are poised to do much greater damage to the public health insurance program.

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LGBTQ

For LGBTQ Youth, #MeToo Is Not a Heteronormative Issue

Oct 9, 3:46pm Wendy Lu

Law and Policy

After Kavanaugh’s Confirmation, Here’s How to Push Senators to Support Survivors

Oct 6, 4:04pm Jessica Mason Pieklo

Immigration

‘I Think They Want Us to Die in There’: Federal Inspectors Highlight Detention Center’s Inhumane Conditions

Oct 5, 3:06pm Tina Vasquez

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Multimedia

Boom! Lawyered: Kavanaugh Confirmed. Now What?

Well, that happened. Join Boom! Lawyered hosts Jessica Mason Pieklo and Imani Gandy as they explain the real-world impact of the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Podcast

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

Sep 25, 7:45am Lindsay E. Beyerstein

Podcast

The Breach—’We Don’t Heal from It.’
Episode Two: Discovering 240-D in Fort Peck

Sep 25, 7:45am Lindsay E. Beyerstein

Podcast

The Breach—’We Don’t Heal from It.’
Episode Three: Meeting Renée in Jail

Sep 25, 7:45am

Podcast

CHOICE/LESS 405: Their Bodies, Their Boats, Their Play

Sep 14, 7:00am Jenn Stanley

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Investigations

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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.

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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

Trump’s Pathological Devotion to Border Walls Isn’t Political, It’s Theological

Oct 11, 4:16pm Alana Massey

His hollow performances of Christian piety are so illegible because Trump's object of worship isn't the God of Abraham, or even the United States. To Trump, land borders themselves are holy, worth honoring with menacing shrines and protecting with the blood of innocents.

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Sex/Gender/Justice

Louis C.K., Paige Patterson, and the White Male Forgiveness Charade

Oct 10, 5:01pm Dianna Anderson

Redemption of the man who has done bad things is dependent on this principle: The men involved are not bad men at heart. They are mistaken or misled. They just didn’t realize what was wrong.

Religious Liberty

Unreleased Religious Freedom Manifesto Isn’t the Culture War Compromise It Hopes to Be

Oct 8, 5:23pm Frederick Clarkson

Given the institutional backing and the generous rhetoric, many well-intentioned people will consider signing on. But before they do, there are a few things they might consider.

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Culture & Conversation

Media

‘Reversing Roe’ and the Importance of Telling Complete Stories

Oct 11, 1:12pm Renee Bracey Sherman

The film’s directors said they wanted to show how abortion "has become so politicized that it is being used as a pawn to win presidencies.” But the film left a number of important stories regarding communities of color on the cutting room floor.

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Media

Sports Media Is Finally Covering One of the Biggest Stories of the Year. Why Did It Take So Long?

Oct 9, 6:43pm Shireen Ahmed & Brenda Elsey

Sports media outlets that previously dismissed the sexual assault allegations against Cristiano Ronaldo are now scurrying to report on them.

Media

The Power of Women’s Anger: A Conversation With Soraya Chemaly

Oct 5, 11:50am Jessica Mason Pieklo

The author of Rage Becomes Her says that women's anger can be a catalyst for change or shore up the existing social order.

Imani Gandy

Commentary

The Supreme Court Just Ensured That Thousands of Native Americans Won’t Be Able to Vote in November

Oct 11, 12:26pm

North Dakota’s voter identification law makes it harder for Native voters—and students, and other reliably Democratic voters—to participate in elections.

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