Climate Change Is Brutal for Everyone but Worse for Women
Women carry belongings from their submerged house in the aftermath of Cyclone Bulbul in Amarabati Village, India on November 10./Zuma This piece was originally published in Wired and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. The climate crisis is so epic, so vicious, so wide-reaching, that at this point there are few aspects of…
When Your Rape Doesn’t Count
Something about the knock at the front door made Mary-Scott Hunter think a neighbor was in trouble. She had just arrived home from her job at a corporate training company, and she was mulling over an earlier fight with her girlfriend, but the sound jolted her out of it: five loud, fast raps. She could…
Can a Robot Fix Sex Ed?
Mother Jones illustration/Emojipedia Maura was about to go to college, and she had some questions about the birth control pill. In the week leading up to her period, the 18-year-old was used to enduring terrible migraines and cramps and feeling severely depressed—and the symptoms were getting worse. She wondered if the pill could help, but…
Democratic Campaign Group Won’t Support Anti-Abortion Candidates
Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear, who won the governor’s race on a pro-choice platform in a deep-red state, acknowledges supporters at his election night party in Louisville on November 5.Bryan Woolston/AP Photo On Saturday, Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards’ reelection victory in deep-red Louisiana sent a strong signal that there’s a future for anti-abortion candidates…
When Students Can’t Get Emergency Contraception From Vending Machines, Sometimes There’s No Plan B
Plan B sits on a shelf in a pharmacy in Montgomery, Alabama.Seth Herald/AFP via Getty Images In the spring of 2017, Emma Donnelly, a junior at the University of Southern Maine, read an article that inspired her to take action. Students at the University of California, Davis, had organized to get a vending machine on…
The Trump Administration Is Giving Family Planning Funds to a Network of Anti-Abortion Clinics
When I walked into the Obria clinic in Whittier, California, one evening in July, a woman in a modest floral-print dress organizing bundles of diapers in a back room greeted me hopefully. She thought I’d come for a class. Instead, I asked if I had come to the right place for birth control. Furrowing her…