The FBI Reported More Than 6,000 Hate Crimes Last Year. Here’s Why It’s Probably A Whole Lot More.
Richard Ellis/Zuma An FBI report released earlier this week claims that hate crimes increased 4.6 percent in 2016 over the previous year, from 5,850 in 2015 to 6,121 last year. Mainstream media outlets widely reported on these statistics (see here and here), with several outlets calling out a specific spike in hate crimes around Election Day and reporting the…
No One Knows How Many American Women Die From Causes Related to Pregnancy or Childbirth
byryo/Getty This story originally appeared on ProPublica. The questions are straightforward, with public health implications that would seem impossible to shrug off. How many American women die each year from causes related to pregnancy or childbirth? How many of these deaths are preventable? How does the nation’s current rate of maternal mortality compare to the…
It’s Been an Amazing Year for Political Artists Telling Donald Trump to Shove It
kadirkaplan/Getty For many Americans, Trump’s first year in the White House has been, in a word, ugly. But the Trump administration has resulted in some of the most provocative political art in American history. “Painting is not made to decorate apartments,” Pablo Picasso famously said in 1945. “It’s an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.” Over…
With Trump’s Ban Looming, Transgender Service Members Talk About What the Military Has Meant to Them
Jacob Eleazer, Regan Kibby, Sheri Swokowski, Blake DremannWDRB 41 Louisville News, National Center for Lesbian Rights, Brian Ebner/Optic Nerve, Courtesy of Blake Dremann Sheri Swokowski Brian Ebner/Optic NerveFrom an early age, probably five, I thought I should be wearing my sister’s clothes. At times when I found myself home alone, I did. But I grew…
Trump’s Likely Pick to Empower Women Is Mad That Disney Movies Don’t Feature Enough Strong Male Leads
Penny Nance with Concerned Women for America speaks during a meeting held by Budget Director Mick Mulvaney in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex on May 25, 2017. Andrew Harnik/AP It’s hard to imagine a more ironic choice for America’s next ambassador-at-large for women’s issues. The position is tasked with overseeing…
Federal Court Halts Trump’s Ban on Transgender Military Members
Robin Rayne Nelson/ZUMA Wire A federal court has temporarily halted the Trump administration policy that would keep transgender men and women from serving in the US armed forces, a move that could affect thousands of service members and aspiring recruits. In August, President Donald Trump told the Pentagon to reverse an Obama-era policy that had…