This New Yorker Cover Shows Why the Midterms Were so Huge for Women and People of Color
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If you’re still wondering whether the midterms were a win for women and people of color, The New Yorker just previewed its upcoming cover—which aptly illustrates why the results were a cause for celebration. An early look at next week’s cover, “Welcome to Congress,” by Barry…
Women Who Face Prosecution for Self-Inducing an Abortion Finally Have a Number to Call
Mixmike/iStock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. During his campaign for president, Donald Trump told voters he believed that women who end their pregnancies should face “some form of punishment.” He soon walked back his remarks, but the statement, along with his promise (since fulfilled) to put anti-abortion justices on the…
A Man Allegedly Groped a Woman on a Plane. He Told Investigators That Trump Says It’s OK.
Alexey Bychkov/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A Florida man who was arrested Sunday after allegedly groping a woman who had been sleeping on a plane told authorities that President Donald Trump said it was acceptable to—in the words of a federal criminal complaint—”grab women by their private parts.” The…
How Trump’s Latest Attack on Transgender Rights Will “Inflict Significant Harm”
Demonstrators gather in front of the White House on Monday to protest the administration’s new memo on defining a person’s sex.Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A Department of Health and Human Services proposal urging federal agencies to narrow the legal definition of a person’s sex “stands to inflict…
More Than a Dozen Candidates Linked to #MeToo Allegations Will Appear on the November Ballot
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Incumbents The Challengers Sherrod BrownDemocrat, Senate, Ohio Brown’s ex-wife, Larke Recchie, filed a restraining order against Brown in the 1980s while the two were in the middle of a contentious divorce. In related court records, Recchie alleged that Brown had…
An Obamacare Expert and Her Army of Women Volunteers Could Flip This Red District
Lauren Underwood at an endorsement event with Human Rights Campaign on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018 in Geneva, Ill.John Konstantaras/AP Images for Human Rights Campaign Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Lauren Underwood had no idea how to run for Congress. The 32-year-old Democrat built the first version of her campaign website…