In Kansas, Employees of Abortion Providers Not Allowed to Volunteer at Schools

Kari Ann Rinker of Kansas NOW writes for RH Reality Check: “Kansas now has five of the most harmful abortion restrictions in the nation—restrictions that exist to create barriers to abortion access and shame women and their doctors. One outrageous exampl…

High-skilled immigration debate grows over stark gender imbalance, favoring men for H-1B visas

Matt O’Brien writes for the San Jose Mercury News: “As Congress negotiates its biggest immigration overhaul in decades, new numbers obtained by this newspaper reveal a stunning imbalance in a program that admits highly skilled immigrants to the United St…

When the right to bear arms trumps a woman’s right to safety

Katie McDonough writes for Salon: “Domestic violence survivors and victims’ rights groups have long advocated for stricter laws to keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers, but powerful lobbying by the National Rifle Association has succeeded in ke…

Stop-and-frisk goes on trial

Natasha Lennard writes for Salon: “The landmark federal trial, Floyd vs. City of New York, which challenges the constitutionality of stop-and-frisk practices used by the NYPD. Lawyers with the Center for Constitutional Rights who are bringing the class-a…

Steubenville High School football players found guilty of raping 16-year-old girl

Dan Wetzel of Yahoo! Sports writes: “They basically told the victim about it. Their friends essentially took real-time crime-scene photos for the cops. Of course, this was only possible because Mays and Richmond were more than comfortable committing the…