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The Parental Rights Movement Has a Big Day at the Supreme Court

Montgomery County, Maryland, is the most religiously diverse county in the United States. When its Board of Education approved a slate of storybooks...

23.04.2025 20

Sarah Szilagy

Trump’s New Executive Order Just Dealt Another Brutal Blow to the Department of Education

President Donald Trump has taken the first step to officially abolish the Department of Education, a $268 billion government agency responsible for...

21.03.2025 60

Sarah Szilagy

Raquel Willis on How the Democrats Are Failing Trans People

Raquel Willis knows that her power lies in her voice. From her home state of Georgia to the streets of New York City and the steps of Congress, Willis...

15.03.2025 4

Sarah Szilagy

WWE Exec Linda McMahon Is Poised to Oversee the End of the Department of Education

In President Donald Trump’s meritocracy, you apparently don’t need much educational experience to run the Department of Education. The...

04.03.2025 20

Sarah Szilagy

Linda McMahon Just Showed the Senate How Little She Knows About Education

Former professional wrestling exec and billionaire GOP donor Linda McMahon faced tough questioning—and scattered protests—on Thursday during her...

14.02.2025 70

Sarah Szilagy

Why Are Institutions Bowing to Trump’s Illegal Anti-Trans Orders?

President Donald Trump’s barrage of executive orders targeting transgender people have resulted in an immediate catastrophe for trans people, their...

08.02.2025 7

Sarah Szilagy

Kentucky Judge Guts Biden’s Title IX Rules So Trump Doesn’t Have To

When Donald Trump was president the first time, his Department of Education promulgated a set of rules under Title IX that made it harder for sexual...

15.01.2025 20

Sarah Szilagy

Activists Occupied Bathrooms in the US Capitol to Protest the Trans Ban

Protesters occupy a bathroom near House Speaker Mike Johnson's office. Courtesy Alexa B. Wilkinson Protesters took to the US Capitol bathrooms...

06.12.2024 10

Sarah Szilagy

Emboldened by the Election, Ohio GOPers Push Through a Trans Bathroom Ban

An all-gender restroom at San Diego International Airport. (Karen Focht/Zuma) To Republican lawmakers, the 2024 election results were the mandate...

27.11.2024 5

Sarah Szilagy

Florida’s Abortion Rights Amendment Just Failed

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, appearing with doctors, holds a press conference to speak in opposition to Amendment 4, which would have...

06.11.2024 10

Sarah Szilagy

Iowa’s Surprising Poll Is About Abortion—but Also the State’s GOP Power Grab

Protesters fill the Iowa Capitol rotunda after GOP lawmakers passed a six-week abortion ban in a special session in July 2023. Hannah Fingerhut/AP...

05.11.2024 10

Sarah Szilagy

Louisiana Sued Over Law Classifying Abortion Pills as “Controlled Substances”

An abortion rights supporter outside the US Supreme Court in March, before oral arguments in a suit over the abortion drug mifespristone. Sue...

01.11.2024 4

Sarah Szilagy

Abortion Is on the Ballot in These 10 States

Mother Jones illustration Two years after the US Supreme Court ended the federal right to abortion, tens of millions of Americans will go to the...

28.10.2024 10

Sarah Szilagy

Ohio Passed a Measure Protecting Abortion Rights. Then the Money Ran Out.

Mother Jones; Megan Jelinger/AFP/Getty Every Monday morning, the staff of the Abortion Fund of Ohio’s intake line starts fresh, answering calls,...

27.10.2024 7

Sarah Szilagy

Suit Over Gender Dysphoria Could Dismantle New Disability Rules

A sign at a rally defending transgender rights in Houston in June 2023. Reginald Mathalone/NurPhoto/Zuma When the US Department of Health and Human...

15.10.2024 10