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Is ‘Female Viagra’ Feminist?

A new drug divides the women’s health movement

Molly M. Ginty

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The Group of Artists That’s Winning Fair Pay By Targeting Nonprofits

Organizing artists can be like herding cats. That hasn't stopped WAGE from fighting for fair pay for art.

Tom Ladendorf

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New York’s ‘Carwasheros’ Push for Safer, Fairer Workplaces

Car washes are the 'wild, wild West" of workplace regulation. The Car Wash Accountability Act will improve that—if it is ever implemented

Jean Stevens

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Why Compton Students Are Suing Their Schools

Nine in 10 6th grade students in the area have witnessed or experienced a violent crime. Is trauma counseling part of their right to an equal education?

Ethan Corey

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These Students Are Leading a Movement for Free College in the United States

At last, real organizing for tuition-free college is taking off in America.

Rebecca Nathanson

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Free Speech In an Age of Campus Protest

How the media can work for, and against, the wave of anti-racist actions by students

Jill Hopke

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How One City Is Making Sure Bosses Comply With Wage Theft and Paid Sick Leave Laws

Seattle's labor regulators are now under one roof.

Jake Blumgart

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Fewer Police, Safer Communities?

The tension between safety from police and safety from crime

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

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A Bill of Rights That Puts Workers Above Corporations

It's up to the voters of Spokane, Washington.

Simon Davis-Cohen

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These Activists Are Trying To Solve the Housing Crisis—By Suing the Suburbs

Bay Area activists take a suburb to court, saying it refused to allow high-density housing

s.e. smith

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Asylum Seekers Face Kafkaesque Ordeal at U.S.-Mexico Border

Migrants have to choose between keeping their families together and finding safety.

John Washington

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From Hashtag to Strategy: The Growing Pains of Black Lives Matter

Movement activists discuss strategy and tactics in #BlackLivesMatter.

Bill Fletcher, Jr.

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After a 24-Year Gap, Chicago’s South Side Gets a Trauma Center

The result of years of organizing, the center fills a need in a badly underserved area

Zac Weber

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The City of Detroit Withheld Water From 40,000 People–So Activists Tapped the Mayor’s Mansion

The action was a bid to draw attention to what the UN has called a violation of human rights

Lauren Gaynor

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The Bernie Debate: Would Sanders Advance Feminism and Racial Justice Better Than Clinton?

Feminists debate symbolism, socialism and racial politics in the presidential race

Kathleen Geier

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How One Group of Moms Is Keeping the Peace on One of Chicago’s Most Violent Street Corners

The group wants to make one thing clear: Young black men are not the enemy.

Lillian Osborne and Jessica Stites

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Apple Doesn’t Want You To Be Able To Fix Your iPhone—Here’s Why

The cure for planned Apple-escence

Kendra Pierre-Louis

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The Brooklyn Tenant Union That’s Fighting Gentrification Through Collective Bargaining

For the past two years, the Crown Heights Tenant Union of Brooklyn has used collective bargaining strategies to win victories around rent control and tenant protection laws.

Ethan Corey