Democracy

For many girls across Africa, getting their period means staying home from school, exposure to negative social stigma, and the risk of significant health issues all because they don’t have access…

Christine Thurman is a mother of three. She’s engaged and is the breadwinner in her Chicago household. She also works as a waitress, living primarily off of tips because she’s…

Drug development takes a great deal of time, money and effort. While future profits play a big factor in which diseases gets prioritized, advocacy and research incentives can also tilt the scale.

Can a state that prohibits most or all abortions block access to online information provided by abortion rights advocates and clinics in states with more permissive abortion laws? After Dobbs v. Jackson…

Government down payment assistance (DPA) has become more important over the past decade. Its use among Federal Housing Administration (FHA) borrowers has tripled since 2010 from just 5 percent of…

Grandparents for Truth, a project of progressive advocacy group People for the American Way, is working to fight book bans, right-wing school boards and what it describes as authoritarianism in the nation’s schools.

Black women, particularly mothers, are leading efforts to treat people currently harmed by toxic neighborhoods and prevent future damage.

Here are two tales of the energy transition unfolding in coal country, USA. In late 2019, Pacificorp, an electric utility that operates in six Western states, told Wyoming regulators it…

The vast majority of the technology needed to realize a full decarbonization of the U.S. economy exists, and most of the technology is more cost effective than fossil fueled alternatives,…

Most of the more than 600,000 people locked up in jails are detained pretrial, and therefore, legally innocent. And, in most states people detained in jails on a misdemeanor conviction…

A world where women are empowered is a better world for all. If women had unlimited access to all the positions we deserve —  as leaders, healers, scientists, writers, artists,…

As of 2020, millions of formerly incarcerated people in 13 states had recovered their right to vote. After the November general election, my co-reporter, Nicole Lewis, was curious to understand the impact formerly incarcerated…