A Question of How Women’s Issues Will Fare, in Washington and Overseas

Sarah Wheaton writes for The New York Times: “Catherine M. Russell’s portfolio includes half the population of the planet, roughly 3.5 billion women. But working with the 70,000 employees of the State Department to make women’s issues a permanent priorit…

Making Reproductive Justice Truly Intersectional: Takeaways from #solidarityisforwhitewomen

Amanda Reyes writes for Choice USA’s blog: “That these hashtags exploded within minutes and have continued to spark conversation about the problems mainstream feminist circles more than a week later means that feminists, especially those of us who are pr…

The Broken-Water Ceiling

Sally Kohn writes for The Daily Beast: “You’ve heard of the glass ceiling. Maybe even the lavender ceiling. But what about the broken-water ceiling?”

Nine Term North Carolina Senator Resigns To Fight New Voter Suppression Law

Ian Millhiser writes for Think Progress: “In a message posted on her website, Kinnaird wrote that a major focus of her post-legislative work will be ‘a grass-roots project to make sure everyone in the state has a proper voter ID so that no votes are deni…

Tackling the Roots of Rape

Frank Bruni writes for The New York Times: “Steubenville. The Naval Academy. Vanderbilt University. The stories of young men sexually assaulting young women seem never to stop, despite all the education we’ve had and all the progress we’ve supposedly mad…