The president has declared war on Chicago, sending in masked ICE agents and National Guard troops to incite violence, hoping protestors will take the bait. Under Pritzker and Mayor...
At a time when women in the U.S. are losing rights to their autonomy, a regressive domestic lifestyle with a long history in white supremacy is being pushed on social media by other...
Bari Weiss built The Free Press on ideologically driven journalism. Now she's bringing that to one of America's biggest news networks.
Journalism isn’t just about telling stories. It's also about who tells them
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News & Issues
Twenty-five years ago, a French medication developed in the 1980s called RU-486, now known as mifepristone, became available in the U.S. market. Since the Dobbs decision, it's helped...
Mifepristone Reaches a Milestone Amid a Hostile Environment
Entropy is a scientific concept that measures the probability of disorder. When applied to the history of dictatorial regimes, it can often reveal that eventually autocrats overplay...
Black, Latina, and Asian women already struggle with launching and funding their ventures. Trump's ever-changing tariffs threaten to put them out of business.
The Trump administration is following the Nazi playbook to a T, as they attempt to destroy the trans community and erase them out of existence. We must call it what it is.
Culture
The criminal justice system has been anything but just to sexual assault survivors. So it would seem counterintuitive that so many women find comfort in watching the long-running SVU...
Do Good Cops Exist — and Why Is It Capt. Olivia Benson?
POTUS appears deeply unwell. Just less than two weeks ago, social media was teeming with rumors he was dead. But you wouldn't know it from legacy media, who'd obsessed over Biden's...
Until recently, the media bombarded us with cautionary tales about adolescent promiscuity. Now, they’re worrying about teens eschewing sex. Why do we wring our hands over the sex...
In the fun and sexy second installation of their "lesbian B-movie" trilogy, filmmakers Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke subvert pulpy noir tropes to reveal the narrative convention's...
Journalism isn’t just about telling stories. It's also about who tells them
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Science
Twenty-five years ago, a French medication developed in the 1980s called RU-486, now known as mifepristone, became available in the U.S. market. Since the Dobbs decision, it's helped...
Mifepristone Reaches a Milestone Amid a Hostile Environment
Entropy is a scientific concept that measures the probability of disorder. When applied to the history of dictatorial regimes, it can often reveal that eventually autocrats overplay...
Many of us wear smartwatches with tracking technology to monitor our step counts, sleep, oxygen saturation, even menstrual cycles, to help detect health issues early. Now wearing them...
In addition to Covid prevention, medical researchers are discovering ways mRNAs could treat various cancers, HIV, and sickle cell anemia. But RFK Jr. and the Trump administration are...
Podcasts
The long history of pool segregation: from the pre-Civil Rights Era to modern day defacto segregation
Episode One: Perilous Waters
There are plenty viral news stories where people of color have been confronted in public spaces, but there’s a long history of the policing of public spaces.
Late-night pioneer Robin Thede joins Ashley to answer listeners' questions about navigating working relationships, and turning pettiness into power.
Ellevest CEO Sallie Krawcheck reminds women of the key to true gender equality: Learning to take control of our money is the only way to dismantle the patriarchy.