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Here's how the so-called "Ferguson effect" could work.
Do white people want merit-based admissions policies? Depends on who’s their competition.
Another example that meritocracy is a myth.
Oklahoma's governor just vetoed the bill that would have made abortion a felony
These kinds of laws keep getting struck down in court. State legislatures pass them anyway.
Maryland has passed one of the nation’s strongest equal pay laws
It will take on pay secrecy and the "mommy track," both of which keep women's earnings down.
Oklahoma lawmakers want to declare an emergency to pass an anti-transgender bathroom bill
This is really happening.
San Francisco police chief resigns after fatal shooting of an unarmed black woman
This is the city's third high-profile police shooting since December.
Anti-transgender bathroom hysteria, explained
Here's how bathrooms became a hot-button issue in America.
Read: a scathing manifesto from 17 French women politicians sick of sexual harassment
"Enough. Impunity is over. We will no longer be silent."
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The perfect response.
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The House of Representatives snuck an anti-LGBTQ measure into a spending bill
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8th-grade girls outperformed boys on a new national engineering and technology test
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An honest conversation about violence in black communities needs to recognize that "black-on-black crime" is not simply black people's making.
