Anna Brent-Levenstein

• United States

A recent move by the Biden administration has merged two seemingly unrelated phenomena: semiconductor chip manufacturing and the provision of affordable child care. The August 2022 CHIPS and Science Act allocates $52.7 billion to domestic chip manufa...

• United States

“By 3:00 PM most days, the emergency room is often exploding with patients. Hospital gurneys stand inches apart. When beds run out, patients squeeze into tightly packed chairs. When the chairs run out, patients must stand. We go home feeling like f...

• Education
• Health
• United States

[CW: This article contains mentions of self-harm/suicide and sexual violence.] “Adults don’t get all the pressure that teenage girls have to deal with, from appearance to the way they act to how smart they are, to the things they do. It can be ve...

• Health
• United States

A year ago, living in a country without the right to an abortion felt more like a conservative pipe dream than a material possibility. Today, it’s our reality. When the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization draft opinion was leaked, reprod...

• Education
• United States

In August, the Biden administration announced it would cancel $10,000 of student debt for all federal borrowers making less than $125,000 per year ($250,000 for married couples) and $20,000 for all Pell Grant recipients. Alexandra Steinheimer, a Pell...

• United States

The future isn’t female anymore. Or so says the widely circulated New York Times article written by Michelle Goldberg in which she bemoans the lack of an “explosive feminist mobilization” after the draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade was leak...