“It’s modern-day bondage. Our folks are being held hostage for ransom.” Mary Hooks, co-director of Southerners On New Ground (SONG), is referring to the U.S. cash bail system—a corrupt, for-profit complex that exploits and exasperates poverty and racial- and gender-based inequality. Organizations like SONG—an Atlanta, Georgia-based LGBTQ and social-justice advocacy organization that helps bail Black women, […]

A good book can be read in a weekend, but a great book takes time. Like an intricate puzzle or a glass of wine, a great book is ripe with newfound realizations, sparkling with mystery and awe, and as such should be enjoyed slowly, adoringly. Suzy Hansen’s Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad […]

Thousands of American nuns have come together to oppose Congressional efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, demonstrating that they are an indomitable force with a popular position that demands recognition. Organized by NETWORK, a Catholic social justice organization, 7,150 Catholic sisters representing all 50 states have signed a letter that not only reiterates how […]

On Tuesday, the Center for Reproductive Rights, together with the research organization Ibis Reproductive Health, released a report that revealed, unsurprisingly, that women and children are more likely to experience negative health outcomes in states with higher numbers of anti-abortion laws. To draw this conclusion, researchers assessed the overall health of women from 2015-2016 and rated states on a scale […]

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced today that the Trump administration is ending Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a five-year immigration program that protects undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children. Students gathering outside West High in Denver to protest against the ending of #DACA pic.twitter.com/p1PB3szZaw — Melanie Asmar (@MelanieAsmar) September […]

After seven years of politically charged “warnings” about the Affordable Care Act and seven years of hollowed-out promises that there is a perfect, utterly impermeable antidote, Republican Senators have hit the eleventh-hour on their push to repeal and replace the historic health care bill. Their last-ditch effort to do so is the most egregious attempt […]

Dr. Nancy Deutsch is an Associate Professor in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia. A prolific contributor to the field of psychology, Dr. Deutsch’s scholarly work focuses on adolescent learning and development with respect to relationships and environment. Her research propels her work at the American Association of Universities’ Sexual Assault […]

Since the passage of Title IX over 45 years ago, feminists have had to hold the line against ceaseless efforts to shrink the scope of the landmark women’s rights law and its fundamental applications. The latest attack is possibly one of the most egregious yet—and California lawmakers are fighting back in an effort to enshrine protections […]

Suzy Hansen is an American journalist and contributing writer for The Times Magazine. She spent more than a decade living and working in Istanbul, where she wrote her recent book, Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World, which been widely hailed by the New York Times, the Guardian, the Los Angeles […]