A New Report Shows How the Trump Administration Is Targeting Asylum Seekers
Customs and Border Patrol agents pick up immigrants suspected of crossing into the United States illegally along the Rio Grande near Granjeno, Texas, in August 2017. Eric Gay/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When President Trump issued an executive order last January to make the criminal prosecution of immigration offenses a “high…
This Serial Campus Rape Case Is a Textbook Example of the Struggle Accusers Face in Court
John Hart/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A few weeks into the fall 2016 semester at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a student was pedaling down a road near campus when she nearly hit Alec Cook with her bike. Cook was 20 years old and a real estate major, and he…
Men and Women View the Seriousness of Sexual Assault About the Same
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After a massive set of complex calculations, I now have the results of the sexual assault survey broken down by gender. And it’s genuinely interesting! Here’s the chart: Of the 2,019 responses, about 80 percent were men and 20 percent were women. In general women…
The Women’s March Never Ended. These Stats Prove It.
John Middlebrook/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A year ago, on the day after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, millions of people flooded the streets in protest. The Women’s March, which took place in dozens of cities and towns across the country, is believed to have been the largest single-day demonstration in US…
A List of Everyone Who Will Be Screwed by a Government Shutdown
A National Park Service employee posts a sign on a barricade closing access to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington during the October 2013 government shutdown.Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Saturday marks the one-year anniversary of the Trump presidency. If Senate leaders fail to reach a last-minute agreement on…
“You Were Building an Army of Survivors”: The Most Horrifying and Inspiring Testimony from the Larry Nassar Hearing
A victim makes her “impact statement” during sentencing hearing to doctor Larry Nassar, who has pleaded guilty to sexual assault charges. Dale G. Young/Detroit News/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a Michigan courtroom earlier this week, Larry Nassar covered his eyes with his hands as, one by one, the women…