Today marks 40 years since the NY State Supreme Court’s landmark decision to criminalize marital rape. Despite yesterday’s sentencing, Gisèle Pelicot’s case in France reveals...
It should come as little surprise that an alleged sexual abuser has won a second presidential term and wants to appoint a cabinet full of sex pests, considering our long history of...
A number of domestic violence survivors recognize parallels between their exes and the tactics of the incoming administration—and their insights can help us prepare and protect...
Journalism isn’t just about telling stories. It's also about who tells them
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News & Issues
Lawmakers not only have an opportunity to derail the coming coronation and slow the damage—they have a constitutional duty to do so.
King Trump Is Not Inevitable
Fascism has been in the U.S. since the 1930s. Nearly a century later, Americans have voted them into the highest offices in the land. So, what's our plan to save our democracy?
The media didn’t have to normalize and sanewash a cognitively diminished felon who ran on retribution and destruction. Or memory-hole his disastrous first term. But because they did,...
Kamala Harris mobilized over 70 million people to support her bid for the presidency and save our democracy from authoritarianism. Yes, we lost. But that doesn't mean we have to stop...
Culture
Political pundits continue to give a pass to an authoritarian Trump, whose proposed kakistocracy cabinet of alleged sex pests, foreign agents, and other wildly dangerous appointments...
Corporate Media Is Obeying in Advance
The media didn’t have to normalize and sanewash a cognitively diminished felon who ran on retribution and destruction. Or memory-hole his disastrous first term. But because they did,...
Both Democrats and Republicans have lost faith in national journalism. These four media critics weigh in on reestablishing its credibility with everyone.
During our nation's most urgent election, the press has buried the fact that Trump goaded his minions to violently storm the Capitol and threatened to hang his VP in an effort to steal...
Journalism isn’t just about telling stories. It's also about who tells them
Become a member at DAME today to help support our independent reporting so we can continue to shine a light on the stories that need to be told, from perspectives that aren’t heard enough. Every dollar we receive from readers goes directly into funding our journalism.
Science
Being on trend has never been more destructive to our sense of self, to the labor force, and to the climate. But a growing movement of crafters who post their clothes-making process on...
Can DIY Clothes Unravel Fast Fashion’s Climate Disasters?
When the author's infirm parents didn't arrange care for their adult child with Down syndrome before they died, the author juggled caregiving her brother, tween, and a full-time job....
For many in the Black community, having multiple generations of family living under one roof is nothing new. But for this Gen X single mother and grandmother, caring for an aging parent...
The scorching hot temperatures and evaporating water levels in the war-torn African nation is a warning for our collective climate future.
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.