Parenting as a Radical Act of Love Parenting as a Radical Act of Love
In our special issue, we consider the ways in which parenthood can push us to recognize our interdependence and spur us to fight harder for justice and equality.
Mar 8, 2021 / Feature / Emily Douglas
Could Indigenous Midwifery Improve Maternal Health for Native Women? Could Indigenous Midwifery Improve Maternal Health for Native Women?
After decades of neglect by the mainstream health care system, the revival of Indigenous practices offers a model for reform.
Mar 8, 2021 / Feature / Jenni Monet
This International Women’s Day Rise Up Against Capitalism and Femicide This International Women’s Day Rise Up Against Capitalism and Femicide
Across Latin America, women are protesting economic as well as gender-based violence.
Mar 8, 2021 / Cecilia Nowell
Planned Parenthood Returns to Rural Texas Planned Parenthood Returns to Rural Texas
The provider reopened a clinic in deep-red Lubbock—a rebuke to the dismantling of the state’s reproductive health care safety net over the past decade.
Mar 2, 2021 / Kaysie Ellingson, Sophie Novack, and The Texas Observer
Why Xavier Becerra Is a Smart Pick to Run HHS Why Xavier Becerra Is a Smart Pick to Run HHS
As California’s attorney general, he fought to strengthen his state’s social safety net—which we must do nationally if we are to improve public health and lick the coronavirus.
Feb 26, 2021 / Sasha Abramsky
As the Pandemic Raged, Abortion Access Nearly Flickered Out As the Pandemic Raged, Abortion Access Nearly Flickered Out
Countless quiet acts of heroism were required for those who needed abortions to get them. And still, not everyone did.
Feb 23, 2021 / Feature / Amy Littlefield
Argentina’s Decades-Long Fight to Legalize Abortion Ends in Victory Argentina’s Decades-Long Fight to Legalize Abortion Ends in Victory
The campaign to legalize abortion began sometime in the late 1970s, when the “grandmothers” of the green wave were living in exile across Europe.
Jan 1, 2021 / Cecilia Nowell
Lightning Strike Lightning Strike
A movement called the Women’s Strike has been drawing hundreds of thousands of people to protest drastic abortion restrictions in Poland in recent months.
Dec 14, 2020 / OppArt / Various Contributors
A Guide to Giving: Worst Year Ever Edition A Guide to Giving: Worst Year Ever Edition
Get a fresh start after a rotten year—help those who help others.
Dec 10, 2020 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Letters From the December 14/21, 2020, Issue Letters From the December 14/21, 2020, Issue
Moneyball… Roe reversal… Remembering Steve…
Dec 1, 2020 / Our Readers