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Top Architecture Firm Won’t Design More ICE Prisons After Employees Revolt

For three years, Andrew Osborne helped his bosses promote the idea that good design could make imprisonment more humane. As a public relations...

16.03.2026 10

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Madison Pauly

Supreme Court Battle Over Trans Athletes Is About So Much More Than Sports

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear a pair of cases brought by a transgender girl in West Virginia and a transgender woman in Idaho who argue they...

13.01.2026 10

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Madison Pauly

Trump Rewards MAGA Attack Dog Attorney General With FBI Post

When Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey was sworn into office in 2023, then-Gov. Mike Parson joked that he had extracted a “blood oath” from...

29.08.2025 9

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The Supreme Court Turns Its Sights on Trans Athletes

The US Supreme Court announced Thursday that it will hear a pair of cases in the fall involving state laws in that ban transgender girls and women...

04.07.2025 10

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Madison Pauly

Supreme Court Once Again Preserves the Affordable Care Act

For 15 years, the Supreme Court has repeatedly rejected attempts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, and today is no different. This morning, the...

27.06.2025 20

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The Supreme Court Just Made It Easier for States to Defund Planned Parenthood

At a time when Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest provider of reproductive health care, faces unprecedented threats to its very survival on...

26.06.2025 10

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Madison Pauly

Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Minors

Three years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, allowing states to ban abortion, the justices have decided to let states ban another...

18.06.2025 10

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Madison Pauly

A Doctor’s Impassioned Defense of Later Abortions

Dr. Shelley Sella kept a journal from the very first day she got on a plane to go work for George Tiller, the third-trimester abortion provider who...

05.06.2025 10

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Madison Pauly

Women’s Health Care Has a Racism Problem. Trump’s War on DEI Is Making It Worse.

Dr. Emily Hawes-Van Pelt, an OB-GYN working in Minneapolis, didn’t consider herself an expert on fighting racism in health care. Then in May 2020,...

04.06.2025 10

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Madison Pauly

Missouri Supreme Court Defies Voters, Halts Abortions in the State

One might have thought that last November, when Missourians voted to enshrine “reproductive freedom,” including abortion, in the state...

29.05.2025 9

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Madison Pauly

Utah Study on Trans Youth Care Extremely Inconvenient for Politicians Who Ordered It

In 2022, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox was the rare Republican governor who seemed to truly care about the well-being of transgender kids. “I don’t...

25.05.2025 10

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Trump Administration Ordered to Undo Yet Another Wrongful Deportation

Late last night, a federal district court judge in Massachusetts ordered the US government to “facilitate” the return of a Guatemalan man who was...

24.05.2025 9

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Madison Pauly

The Latest Supreme Court Case Targeting the ACA Comes from a Longtime Anti-Gay Activist

For over a decade, Americans with private health insurance have enjoyed free access to dozens of types of preventive health care: cholesterol...

22.04.2025 10

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South Carolina Attacked Planned Parenthood. Will SCOTUS Let Patients Fight Back?

Perhaps what was most significant in the debate at the US Supreme Court Wednesday morning, during oral arguments in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South...

03.04.2025 10

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Madison Pauly

Ken Paxton Finally Found Healthcare Providers to Charge With “Illegal” Abortion

In what appears to be the first arrests of healthcare providers for allegedly violating a post-Roe v. Wade state abortion ban, Maria Margarita Rojas,...

19.03.2025 9

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Madison Pauly

Supreme Court to Decide Whether States Can Ban Anti-LGBTQ Conversion Therapy on Kids

In what could foreshadow a major new onslaught against queer and trans children, the US Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear a case...

11.03.2025 10

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Madison Pauly

Trans Youth and Their Families Are Suing Trump Over Canceled Healthcare

Seven young transgender patients, providers of LGBTQ healthcare, and the advocacy organization PFLAG sued President Donald Trump and his...

05.02.2025 8

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RFK Jr. Signals He’ll Give the Anti-Abortion Movement Exactly What They Want

Last Friday, my colleague Julianne McShane and I broke the news of a pair of letters sent by 30 prominent anti-abortion movement leaders to the heads...

30.01.2025 9

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Madison Pauly

Anti-Abortion Leaders Lobby Trump Officials For An Abortion Pill Crackdown

The anti-abortion movement has launched a pressure campaign urging President Donald Trump’s administration to take steps toward a nationwide ban on...

24.01.2025 6

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Trump’s Definitions of “Male” and “Female” Are Nonsense Science With Staggering Ramifications

A few hours after taking the Oath of Office on Monday, President Donald Trump issued an executive order purporting to redefine “male” and...

23.01.2025 10

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Madison Pauly

Trump Declares War on Transgender People

Upon assuming the presidency Monday, Donald Trump is expected to immediately move to end the federal government’s recognition of transgender people,...

21.01.2025 10

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Madison Pauly

Trump’s Next Attacks on Abortion Rights Will Be More Insidious Than a Ban

During his campaign, incoming president Donald Trump did everything possible to muddy his record on abortion and reproductive healthcare. He...

17.01.2025 8

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Madison Pauly

Here’s the Real Number of Children Receiving Gender-Affirming Medical Treatment

Countless words have been spilled—including in Mother Jones—on the topic of medical care for transgender youth. The attention, in part, comes from...

10.01.2025 9

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