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We’ll Keep Fighting to Protect Our Bodily Autonomy

We’ll Keep Fighting to Protect Our Bodily Autonomy

| Feb 16, 2022 | HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyEarlier this year, a small group of women and I gathered to post artwork around Washington, D.C. We were celebrating the 49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, which protected women’s constitutional access to abortion. As the conservative Supreme Court considers new...
To Protect Women’s Health, Pass the Equal Rights Amendment

To Protect Women’s Health, Pass the Equal Rights Amendment

| Jan 26, 2022 | Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyLate January marked the 49th anniversary of Roe. V. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide. It could very well be the last. In 1973, Roe codified the right to terminate a pregnancy up until viability — around 23-26 weeks. Anti-abortion...
Prison Gerrymandering: The Modern ‘Three-Fifths Compromise’

Prison Gerrymandering: The Modern ‘Three-Fifths Compromise’

| Dec 1, 2021 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAre free and fair elections too much to ask for? Thanks to partisan gerrymandering — and its ugly cousin, prison gerrymandering — the answer is often yes. High-stakes redistricting battles now underway will help determine next year’s midterm elections. In a perfect...
Here Come the Abortion Bounty Hunters

Here Come the Abortion Bounty Hunters

| Oct 13, 2021 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyTexas’s cruel new anti-abortion law is more than just an unconstitutional restriction on reproductive choice. It’s also an egregious new frontier in late capitalism. In addition to banning abortion beyond six weeks into pregnancy, the Texas law allows private citizens...
Immigration Cruelty Goes Beyond the Border

Immigration Cruelty Goes Beyond the Border

| Oct 6, 2021 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyImages of Border Patrol officers on horseback whipping Black migrants shocked many Americans. President Biden called them “outrageous” and “wrong” and promised an investigation. Many members of Congress also spoke out. Given this reaction, you could be forgiven for...
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