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(10/23/17 9:45pm)
In the 2016 election, only 55.7 percent of the United States' voting age population showed up to vote, according to the Census Bureau. With this percentage, the United States trails beyond most developed democracies for voter turnout.
(10/16/17 8:24pm)
A citizen can never be fully respected by the state if he or she isn't afforded all the benefits of his or her citizenship.
(10/10/17 10:57pm)
Get-out-the-vote organizations and initiatives spend much time each major election cycle trying to convince Americans that their votes matter.
(10/02/17 1:45am)
Congress is taking its sweet time mulling over the age-old immigration meritocracy debate as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals beneficiaries await their future in the United States.
(09/26/17 1:26am)
Before the Trump administration officially announced it would rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, the big news on President Trump’s immigration preferences was his support of the Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment Act.
(09/19/17 9:03pm)
In 2009, University of Michigan anthropologist Jason De León and photographer Richard Barnes were working near the United States-Mexico border outside Tucson, Arizona, telling stories of U.S. immigration. Hiking along the well-traveled routes into the U.S., the two found hundreds of discarded backpacks from migrants who had crossed the border.
(09/11/17 8:07pm)
The past few weeks since July’s Senate victory for protecting the Affordable Care Act have shown us how far President Trump and his executive agencies will go to make sure Obamacare protections reach as few Americans as possible.
(09/04/17 9:44pm)
Imagine you are one of the many Americans who may qualify to enroll in a health insurance plan through the Affordable Care Act later this year.
(08/28/17 12:28am)
If you are financially secure enough to have minimal health insurance coverage from your employer, chances are you haven’t been worried about the health care debate that's been ongoing since late July, during which the Senate voted no on the latest GOP repeal and replace bill that would have taken away coverage from millions of Americans.
(08/21/17 12:19am)
In the heat of America’s mid-20th century social movements, a reimagining of personal identity and politics was slowly entering the zeitgeist. The buildup of the civil rights and women’s liberation movements had uncovered the political phenomenon that would soon become obvious — and despised — by many.
(08/16/17 11:00pm)
Any woman who dares to exist in public spaces can recount dozens of instances of sexual harassment. From leering and whistling to stalking and groping, all are damnable and all too familiar. Women can, however, take actions to achieve some restitution.
(07/27/17 1:06pm)
As a young person, I admit to knowing very little.
(07/19/17 9:48pm)
Since the start of the 115th Congressional session, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Califonia) has been one to watch.
(07/12/17 11:54pm)
Sexism as violence pervades all aspects of women’s lives. Objectification, dehumanizing harassment and unsolicited sexual contact leaves a bitter but familiar taste on every woman’s tongue.
(06/29/17 12:53am)
The latest effort in the GOP saga to undermine American health care comes with an unsurprising ploy to restrict access to Planned Parenthood, which offers family planning and preventative care.
(06/22/17 12:20am)
In recent years, it’s become increasingly normal for women and mothers to bring home the bacon, as the saying goes, but that seems to have had little effect on the distribution of domestic work among heterosexual couples.
(06/14/17 8:29pm)
Men’s rights scored a victory Monday morning with the decision of Sessions v. Morales-Santana.
(06/08/17 1:07am)
Conservative ideology in America has constructed an unstable health care meritocracy where citizens must prove how much they deserve coverage based on lifestyle and
salary.
(05/25/17 12:30am)
Last Friday, the Republican-dominated Texas State Legislature voted 96 to 47 to require fetal remains from abortions be buried or cremated despite the United States Supreme Court ruling such restrictions unconstitutional in Whole Women’s Health v. Hellerstedt last year, according to the New York Times.
(05/05/17 2:56am)
Now that the ominous night of Nov. 8, 2016, has passed and citizens lie in the thick of President Trump’s post-100 days, many Americans feel authorized to count the ways in which Trump’s win was Hillary Clinton’s fault.