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BJORK: Honey Badger or Tortoise: Kirsten Gillibrand Struggles to Break Through a Crowded Field
Lizzie Bjork’s profile of New York Senator and presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand.
Earmarks for Erasers
The Lone Star State approved over six billion dollars in a new budget aimed at reinventing its education system, and congressmen love to tout this as a win for the state, but will this money go where their mouths are?
America is Addicted: States Take Action Against Opioid Epidemic
The Opioid Crisis, and how states are stepping up to fight back
People Before Partisanship: How Young Millennials are Taking Charge on Climate Change
“The more natural divide is not between left and right, but between young and old.”
Set in Stone: Memorializing World War II’s forgotten “comfort women”
“We should always prioritize victims who tend to have the smallest voices.”
Hair Politics: How discrimination against Black hair in schools impacts Black lives
Those rules represent a small but effective way to criminalize the Black body, further school pushout, and say, “Your appearance is more important than your education.”
Fighting to Serve: Transgender Military Service and the Trump Administration
“The transgender rights suits that are coming up in courts really are the next phase in the ongoing question of who should serve in the U.S. military.”
America’s Newest Staple: Government Shutdowns
The main difference between the U.S. and other nations isn’t that hyper-partisanship doesn’t exist, but instead is that gridlock isn’t able to shutter parts of an entire government.