Cecile Richards Saved the Day for Us Cecile Richards Saved the Day for Us
The crusader for women’s and workers’ rights died Monday after a cruel illness. She inspires us to do the work ahead.
Jan 20, 2025 / Joan Walsh
Kamala Harris Was Poised to Crush the Women’s Vote. What Went Wrong? Kamala Harris Was Poised to Crush the Women’s Vote. What Went Wrong?
Once Harris became the nominee, women voters surged behind her.
But on Election Day, she won a smaller share of them than Biden did. This is how it fell apart.
Jan 17, 2025 / Feature / Joan Walsh
Blocking Planned Parenthood From Medicaid Will Only Worsen the US Maternal Health Crisis Blocking Planned Parenthood From Medicaid Will Only Worsen the US Maternal Health Crisis
The “defund Planned Parenthood” campaign is back—and headed to the US Supreme Court.
Jan 17, 2025 / Rachel Rebouché
The Supreme Court Prepares to Take Its First Shot at Contraception The Supreme Court Prepares to Take Its First Shot at Contraception
A case just added to the high court’s docket takes on the question of whether Medicaid can be used to pay for services at medical providers that also perform abortions.
Dec 24, 2024 / Elie Mystal
“We Never Assumed Anything”: A Lifetime of Providing Abortion Care “We Never Assumed Anything”: A Lifetime of Providing Abortion Care
In their new book We Choose To, Dr. Curtis Boyd and Glenna Halvorson-Boyd reflect on their decades helping women who needed abortions—before, during, and after Roe.
Nov 29, 2024 / Regina Mahone
How Nominally Pro-Choice RFK Jr. Can Get Anti-Abortion Groups to Back His HHS Nomination How Nominally Pro-Choice RFK Jr. Can Get Anti-Abortion Groups to Back His HHS Nomination
He can pick a strident abortion opponent like Roger Severino, who wrote the Project 2025 chapter on HHS, as his number two.
Nov 21, 2024 / Joan Walsh
How Love Fuels Resistance: Parenting for Liberation How Love Fuels Resistance: Parenting for Liberation
Maya Schenwar and Kim Wilson discuss their new anthology, We Grow the World Together, about how caregiving and the organizing work of abolitionists can go hand in hand.
Nov 19, 2024 / Q&A / Regina Mahone
When Does Power Concede? Thwarting MAGA Will Take More Than Protest and Symbolic Resistance. When Does Power Concede? Thwarting MAGA Will Take More Than Protest and Symbolic Resistance.
If we want to deploy actual power to block Trump’s vicious agenda once he takes control of the federal government, we will have to look to the states.
Nov 19, 2024 / Van Gosse
Patriarchy Has Got to Go Patriarchy Has Got to Go
Check out all installments in the OppArt series.
Nov 15, 2024 / OppArt / Becky Edmunds
What We Learn From the Texas Town That Voted for Abortion and for Trump What We Learn From the Texas Town That Voted for Abortion and for Trump
The right to abortion won big this election—and so did the man who ended Roe v. Wade. Nowhere was that contradiction more pronounced than in Amarillo, Texas.
Nov 14, 2024 / Amy Littlefield