Saturday, July 25, 2026

Clues from history: Why Trump’s presidency is over

Many state governments over the years have reached exactly this point of racial toxicity – and crumbled.

The game-changing promise of an OTC birth control pill

The U.S. appears likely to legalize over-the-counter contraception—a critical step in increasing women’s bodily autonomy and economic independence.

Voting Rights Remain Under Attack 50 Years After the Bloody Sunday March in Selma

This past weekend, thousands of people, including President Obama and more than 100 members of Congress, marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Bloody Sunday. Still, the Voting Rights Act is under peril today.
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Profiting from the pandemic: Will pharmaceutical giants use patents to limit access to COVID...

The truth is that a lot of us hold out hope for when this pandemic will end, thinking that it’ll end when treatments and vaccines emerge, when a cure emerges.

Treaty defenders block road leading to Mount Rushmore

The group blocked the road, holding banners and chanting slogans such as “We can’t breathe” and proclaiming treaty rights.

Former Pennsylvania cop charged with assault after pulling gun on innocent man

He has been charged with carrying a firearm without a permit, discharging a firearm, simple assault, and reckless endangerment of another person.

‘Worse than Texas’: Extreme anti-choice bills advance in multiple states

Republican lawmakers in at least four states this week advanced bills banning or limiting abortion access.

Labor unions and green groups sue Trump Admin for ‘failure to protect frontline workers...

“People are dying, and more people are going to die because the Trump administration has totally failed to protect Americans who have been on the job throughout the pandemic keeping our country running.”
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Philadelphia agrees to pay $2M to innocent woman beaten by cops

“The behavior that occurred during the interaction between Rickia Young, her nephew, her son, and some of the officers on the scene violated the mission of the Philadelphia Police Department.”

Oklahoma state officials resist Supreme Court ruling affirming tribal authority over American Indian country

By resisting the McGirt decision, state officials are missing an opportunity to build connections among, and improve government services for, all the people who live in Oklahoma.