Thursday, August 20, 2026

Tag: women rights

None of the 2021 science Nobel laureates are women—here’s why men...

The rarity of female Nobel laureates raises questions about women’s exclusion from education and careers in science and the undervaluing of women’s contributions on science teams.

Women in Congress push back against misogyny

“We have every right to do our jobs and represent our communities without fearing for our safety.”

The IMF showed the world how not to celebrate International Women’s...

The IMF’s appeals for women’s economic stability in the recipient countries of their loans are a slap in the face to the women who are living proof of the IMF’s indifference to the human suffering they cause.

Dalit Women and Village Justice in Rural India

The caste system dominates all areas of life in India where violent exploitation and prejudice are the norm. The most common victims of village justice are Dalits—girls and women are victimized and violated daily in national neglect.

The Whoredom of the Left

“Third World women are used in the developed world for domestic labor, the care of the old and the undisciplined sexuality of the men.” An expression of global capitalism, has the world entered “the industrialization of prostitution?”

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Old-growth forest in the Tongass National Forest in Alaska. Photo: Forest Service Alaska Region, USDA (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Forest Service files proposal to rescind the roadless rule on more than 44 million...

The rule's own text puts the 2001 protections at 58.5 million acres, and comments close at midnight on September 21.
The Food and Drug Administration sign at the agency's White Oak campus in Silver Spring, Maryland. Photo: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Republican chair of the Senate health panel says he has strong concerns about Trump’s...

Heidi Overton stood beside Trump at the signing of an order cutting the shots recommended for all children to 11, and she would need to clear a committee where Republicans hold a single seat
A lettuce crop in central California. The lettuce linked to this outbreak was grown in central Mexico. Photo: Gary Kramer, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Farm Action report details the reach of Taylor Farms after a cyclospora outbreak hit...

The company says the FDA has no positive product test, and that about 2,000 of its own samples from central Mexico came back clean.
Arch Street Friends Meeting House in Philadelphia, a property of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, the lead plaintiff in the case. Photo: ajay_suresh / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Appeals court upholds order limiting ICE arrests at Quaker, Sikh and Baptist houses of...

The Justice Department never argued a compelling government interest before the district court, and the Fourth Circuit held that defense waived.
The Malecón seawall in Havana, Cuba. Photo: RenaatPeeters / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Danger of De-contextualized Reporting: A Case Study of Mainstream Media’s Cuba Coverage

NPR's interview with Arturo Sandoval described Cubans as desperate and hopeless without mentioning the 67-year embargo, the terrorism designation or the oil blockade behind it.