Bella Robinson is the Executive Director of COYOTE-RI (“Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics”), the first sex workers’ rights organization in the United States. A sex worker of 35 years, Bella is deeply involved in legislative and legal advocacy, com...
Over 3.5 million Americans currently live in the United States territories, a number that is roughly equivalent to the populations of the five smallest states combined. These residents of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the US Virgin Islands, and ...
“I’m not going to be able to do anything more… this is my only option,” a single working-mother of three told a phone counselor at the Women’s Medical Fund in November of 2017. With only $125 in savings, she was forced to turn to a pri...
June 24, 2022 may have been many things, but it was no surprise. Between the unprecedented leak of Alito’s draft opinion and the overt, half-century plot to overturn Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court’s decision that fateful Wednesday morning to stri...
June 24, 2022 may have been many things, but it was no surprise. Between the unprecedented leak of Alito’s draft opinion and the overt, half-century plot to overturn Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court’s decision that fateful Wednesday morning to stri...
Last month, a project 50 years in the making near-reached completion, and there were tears of outrage and tears of joy. On May 2, POLITICO published a leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision enshrini...
Last month, a project 50 years in the making near-reached completion, and there were tears of outrage and tears of joy. On May 2, POLITICO published a leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision enshrini...
Strangers streamed into the milling villages within Scituate, Rhode Island in the summer of 1915. Arriving by train and in jet-black Model T cars, they parsed through land deeds at the town clerk’s office and took photographs of local homes. Suspic...
Strangers streamed into the milling villages within Scituate, Rhode Island in the summer of 1915. Arriving by train and in jet-black Model T cars, they parsed through land deeds at the town clerk’s office and took photographs of local homes. Suspic...
Children in the United States are often taught that most colonial settlers left Britain to avoid religious persecution. This classic story of American canon is sometimes framed as part of the explanation for the origins of American secularism. In sho...
Children in the United States are often taught that most colonial settlers left Britain to avoid religious persecution. This classic story of American canon is sometimes framed as part of the explanation for the origins of American secularism. In sho...
On February 17, 2022 the Florida Senate advanced legislation that would ban discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in schools. The Parental Rights in Education Bill prohibits, “classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender i...
On February 17, 2022 the Florida Senate advanced legislation that would ban discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in schools. The Parental Rights in Education Bill prohibits, “classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender i...
As President Joe Biden seeks to build a Cabinet that “looks like America,” one nomination stands out as especially significant: Deb Haaland’s appointment to lead the Department of the Interior (DOI), making her the first Indigenous American to ...
As President Joe Biden seeks to build a Cabinet that “looks like America,” one nomination stands out as especially significant: Deb Haaland’s appointment to lead the Department of the Interior (DOI), making her the first Indigenous American to ...
Since the 2020 elections, gridlock in the United States Senate has transformed from a pressing political problem to a fact of political life. From President Joe Biden’s flagship Build Back Better social policy plan, to efforts to pass a new voting ...
Since the 2020 elections, gridlock in the United States Senate has transformed from a pressing political problem to a fact of political life. From President Joe Biden’s flagship Build Back Better social policy plan, to efforts to pass a new voting ...
The dangerous facilitation of disinformation and misinformation online is now a defining characteristic of social media platforms. Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube, and other platforms have faced controversy for abetting the rapid proliferation of ...
The dangerous facilitation of disinformation and misinformation online is now a defining characteristic of social media platforms. Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube, and other platforms have faced controversy for abetting the rapid proliferation of ...
Jose Santiago was arrested just one month after his 16th birthday after stealing an iPod and spent a year and a half in prison. He didn’t see his attorney until the day he was sentenced, even after requesting access to an attorney six separate time...
Jose Santiago was arrested just one month after his 16th birthday after stealing an iPod and spent a year and a half in prison. He didn’t see his attorney until the day he was sentenced, even after requesting access to an attorney six separate time...
In response to nationwide protests throughout the summer of 2020, Democratic politicians across the US vowed to enact bold changes to policing. While most establishment Democrats never embraced calls to defund the police, their professed commitment t...
In response to nationwide protests throughout the summer of 2020, Democratic politicians across the US vowed to enact bold changes to policing. While most establishment Democrats never embraced calls to defund the police, their professed commitment t...
Despite an ongoing pandemic, the number of undocumented immigrants trying to enter the U.S. continues to rise, so much that Biden has recently deployed FEMA to help with the surge of children at the border. Existing immigration policy in the U.S. is ...
Despite an ongoing pandemic, the number of undocumented immigrants trying to enter the U.S. continues to rise, so much that Biden has recently deployed FEMA to help with the surge of children at the border. Existing immigration policy in the U.S. is ...
In the new legislative session of 2021, Alabama’s elected officials have their work cut out for them. In Alabama, there have been 392,790 confirmed cases of coronavirus since March 2020, 45,976 hospitalizations, and 10,186 deaths. A central Alabama...
In the new legislative session of 2021, Alabama’s elected officials have their work cut out for them. In Alabama, there have been 392,790 confirmed cases of coronavirus since March 2020, 45,976 hospitalizations, and 10,186 deaths. A central Alabama...