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Independent Clinics Still Provide Most U.S. Abortions
29+ min ago (334+ words) 2025 was a year marked by attacks on reproductive freedom, including a staggering wave of forced Planned Parenthood closures. About 50 of Planned Parenthood's 600 locations had shut down by the end of 2025, largely due to the combined loss of Title X funds…...
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Show Was a Love Letter to Puerto Rico, the Americas and the Latino Diaspora
3+ hour, 38+ min ago (416+ words) The show's imagery underscored layered histories of colonization and empire that resonated beyond the stadium. Bad Bunny's sugar cane plantation'with humans literally becoming the cane'blurred the lines between Puerto Rico's status as a U.S. territory acquired through the Spanish-American War in…...
The SAVE Act Is Back—and Women’s Political Power Is on the Line
10+ hour, 10+ min ago (366+ words) SAVE Act: Voter Access, Women's Representation and the Stakes for DemocracyTuesday, Feb, 10, 7:30-8:30 p.m. ETRSVP via Zoom. In the coming days,Congress is poised to take up yet another vote on the so-called SAVE (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility) America Act. While the…...
Misogyny Is Rising in U.S. Classrooms. Where Is the National Response?
12+ hour, 29+ min ago (434+ words) Online influencers such as Andrew Tate and others in the so-called manosphere promote misogynistic themes that frame women as inferior, deceptive or valuable solely for their appearance. These messages are delivered with charisma, humor and rebelliousness, which appeal to adolescent…...
Resistance, From the Red Carpet to the Courts: Grammy Winners Denounce ICE, Immigrant Families Challenge Trump's Visa Ban
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (1749+ words) In every issue of'Ms., we track research on our progress in the fight for equality, catalogue can't-miss quotes from feminist voices and keep tabs on the feminist movement's many milestones. We're Keeping Score online, too'in this biweekly roundup. "The world…...
‘We Will Not Be Sidelined Again’: Survivors Respond After DOJ Releases Epstein Files With Unredacted Names and Personal Details
4+ day, 11+ hour ago (1243+ words) Trigger warning: sexual abuse and exploitation of minors, government negligence The Department of Justice has released more than 3 million pages of records related to Jeffrey Epstein. For decades, survivors have begged for answers and accountability. But they say the latest…...
Trump-Era Federal Layoffs Hit Black Women Hardest
4+ day, 17+ hour ago (875+ words) This article originally appears in the Winter 2026 print issue of Ms., under the headline "Out of Work and Out of Options." Join the'Ms.'community today and you'll get issues delivered straight to your mailbox. The numbers are staggering. Between February…...
February 2026 Reads for the Rest of Us
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (1765+ words) Hello, feminist reader friends! Each month, I provide Ms. readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups. The aims of these lists are threefold: This month, I want to take the opportunity to…...
The Post-Roe Playbook Is Targeting Teens and Immigrants First
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (1782+ words) A message from'Ms. editors,'followed by a conversation between legal scholar Shoshanna Ehrlich and Brigitte Amiri, deputy director of the ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project. In this wide-ranging conversation, Ehrlich and Amiri trace how the first Trump administration's efforts to block…...
Raped, Recorded, Shared—Then Abandoned by the System: ‘Once It’s on the Internet, It’s Out There’
6+ day, 7+ hour ago (544+ words) If you have experienced online sexual exploitation and abuse and need help, contact the Cyber Civil Liberties Initiative Safety Center. Samantha, a college student (last name withheld), was raped by a police officer. She later found out the assault had…...