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Three Questions About…Private Equity


“Trying to Break Us Won’t Work”


Trump’s Updated EMTALA Guidance Tells Docs, “You’re On Your Own”


A Plea for the “Disappeared” at the Statue of Liberty


Is the Last Abortion Haven in the Caribbean Closing?


American Moms Are Not Okay


Running, Walking, Crawling for Justice


Moms Don’t Need Jobs, Right?


Three Questions About…Wellness


A Night of Black Creativity


There’s No “Fetus Debris” In Your Vaccine


The Longest 100 Days Ever


The Wonder of Amy Sherald


Why Is Consent Controversial?


You Can’t Pay Us to Have More Kids


The New Binge Drinkers


The Secret War on Birth Control


Death By 10,000 Layoffs


Good abortion news out of…Alabama?


Netflix’s Adolescence Isn’t About Race, Except Maybe It Is


Are Protests Now “Terrorism?”


A showdown on Capitol Hill


AI’s Woman Problem


Can you talk about abortion in therapy?


The “Recurring Lies” We Learn in School


A President-Free Newsletter


What Idaho Did When You Weren’t Looking


This Newsletter Has Bad Words In It


Another Abortion Provider Targeted


“You can’t rewrite a statute with a Sharpie”


Two Pop Stars, Both Alike in Dignity


Donald Trump Signs Laken Riley Act Into Law


“They Deserve Better Than Bobby Kennedy”


No trial? No Problem


It’s Mt. Denali If You’re Nasty


What to Expect on Day One


“You, Sir, Are a No-Go”


How the LA Fires Got So Bad So Fast


Ozempic, Voguing and Abortion Bans


Let’s Get Cozy!


Gisèle Pelicot Is Extraordinary


How Safe are Abortion Providers in Blue States?


She Called Journalists “Monsters”and Liars


Could Trump End Birthright Citizenship?


Iran Temporarily Releases Narges Mohammadi


This Law Could Run for President. It’s That Bad.


How to Fight Autocracy, From the Activists Who’ve Done It


Sarah McBride Will “Follow the Rules.” Girl, Why?


Is It a Privilege to Pee?


Gaetz, Hegseth, and RFK. Oh my!


Do We Need to Worry About Susie Wiles and Elise Stefanik? Um. Yeah.


“Was It Foolish to Hope?”


“I woke up worried for my daughter.”


I Was a Sexual-Assault Advocate Under Trump


Her life-saving abortion would have been a “crime”


How Much Do You Know About Menopause?


New Tie, Same Old Misogyny: J. D. Vance’s Failed Rebrand


Can the Taliban Be Taken to Court?


There Haven’t Been This Many Conflicts Since WWII


A Climate Story That Won’t Depress You


“The Women Who Have Refused to be Broken”


“That’s Not How It’s Gonna Go, Girl”


How Do You Season Your Pets?


What Is “Reunification Therapy”?


Be the Chappell Roan of Your Own Life


What We Learned at the DNC


The Real Stars of the DNC


A Visual Celebration of Muslim Women Athletes


Three Years of Taliban Rule


Three Questions About Arizona’s Abortion Ballot Initiative


An abortion victory in Arizona


Another Country Fights for Democracy


Emailing from a coconut tree


The Party of the Working “Man”


Three Questions About Disinformation


Will He, Won’t He


What Is “Fascism Lite”?


SCOTUS Anoints a “King Above the Law”


SCOTUS Is Dismantling the Government


What Dobbs Did Around the World


Chrissy Teigen on Her Abortion


Voguing for Trans Liberation at New York’s Most Brutal Jail


Have We Been Thinking About Ambition All Wrong?


That Abortion Pill Ruling


SCOTUS Girl Summer


“What We Do in the Streets Is a Way of Grieving”


“They Don’t Look at Us as Human Beings”


The Threat of Ozempic “Coercion”


Everyone is Having Fun Talking About Drake and Kendrick Lamar


“I Did Not Think This Change Would Come in My Lifetime”


The Inside Woman at the Obama White House


What the Columbia Protests Teach Us


They Waved Her Underwear in Front of a Jury and Called Her a “Slut Puppy”


SCOTUS Just Made Protesting Much Harder


Ye Olde Abortion Ban Hits Arizona


“I’m Here As Long As I Can Be”


The Abortion Pill on Trial


“This Isn’t Speedy or Fair”


“I grew up thinking that most physicians were Black”


Why Are People Hating on the Black National Anthem?


On those right-wing Taylor Swift theories


A World Without Exceptions


The AI Threat (Taylor’s Version)


64,565 “Rape-Related Pregnancies”


C-Sections With No Anesthesia


Another Year Without Roe


Saudi Arabia might host the Billie Jean King cup


Donald Trump’s Defamation Trial (Part 2)


Coretta Scott King’s Misrepresented Legacy


Why South Africa Is Bringing a Case Against Israel


“I’ve never seen anything like this”


The Pope’s Declaration May Feel Late…But It’s Still Important


A Crucial Year Ahead for Abortion Access


Kate Cox Should’ve Had a Choice


An “Education Crisis” in Afghanistan


32,000 more births


Who gets to be called “child”


The Evolution of Momfluencing


Why Do Men Love Telling Women to Have Babies?


A purge in Ohio


“Why do people do this?”


Learning from post-9/11 America


Remember when we had a House Speaker?


An escalating humanitarian crisis


Can a start-up have a soul?


In war, women and children pay the price


From pro-choice TikTok to campaign trail


GOP accidentally helps trans kids


Half of organized workers are women


“Parenting in America feels so nonconsensual.”


Some men are losing their jobs 😈


Have you crossed the WGA picket line?


Rolling Stone’s White-man Complex


Voices From Inside Iran’s Freedom Movement


The Global Public Health Crisis We’re Ignoring


How common is gender-based violence?


“Only Yes Means Yes”


Big white lies


Let Us “Girl Walk” In Peace


Gold Medals and Sexual Harassment


A Livestreamed Femicide in Bosnia


A Generation of Women Held Back


The Rhymes That Changed Us


Serving Looks While Serving the Lord


The one thing Barbie never was


Barbie, Child-Free Icon


What the Hollywood strike means for labor


A historic day for the pill


The cops are sliding into your DMs


Are legacy admissions inherently racist?


SCOTUS v. Affirmative Action


Brittany Packnett Cunningham Talks to Vice President Kamala Harris After a Year Without Roe


A Year of Abortion, Every Day


Gabrielle Union on Trauma, Healing, and Her “50/50” partnership


A Seat at Audie Cornish’s Table


Get Ducked, Greg Abbott


The AI Overlords Are Coming For Us


“You Don’t Like Me? I’m Gonna Throw a Party in Front of Your Office Window.”


Florida’s New Child Kidnapping Law


“There’s literally nothing they could do”


Why did CNN basically host a Trump rally?


Thank you, E. Jean Carroll


An OB-GYN meets with a midwife


“Not ugly enough to be a feminist”


The growing viral resistance to state extremism


“Your worst case scenario is something we would kill for”


What people really need in abortion-ban states


“I could’ve changed their hearts”


The health crisis facing Black mothers


What’s next for the abortion pill


Jane Goodall in her own words


“This is for the girls that look like me”


What the hell is “abortion trafficking”?


The Nashville shooter bought guns *legally*


Join The Meteor and Dr. Jane Goodall in Brooklyn April 4


“Don’t Say Gay” arrives abroad


Why silencing women may come back to bite Trump


Harriet Tubman’s *other* legacy


Diversity is not a “distraction”


The killing of an abortion doctor


It All Started in Pensacola


A drag queen on the drag bans


The Anti-Abortion Movement’s Man-Crush on Hippocrates


“You can’t just cherry-pick history”


Student debt is a feminist issue


A Ukrainian reflects on her year of war


“Since That Day, Nothing Has Been the Same.”


The most important election this year?


What come after an uprising?


This 21-year-old survived two school shootings


The President’s missed opportunity


The Case That Could Be Another Dobbs


27 Years After the Vagina Monologues


What Does the Brett Kavanaugh Documentary Do For Us?


Is This Normal?


Literally, Who Is George Santos?


What We All Need to Know About the Executions in Iran


When Dr. King Talks to Me, This is What He Says


Iran Will Execute More Protestors


Why the Congressional Sh*tshow Matters


We’re Getting In on the In/Out Trend Too


Your Favorite Meteor Stories of 2022


“They Chose to Make History.”


There’s Another Report on the Widespread Abuses in Women’s Soccer


There Have Been 948 Gun Violence Incidents on K-12 Campuses Since Sandy Hook


Brittney Griner Is Coming Home


Three Days of Strikes In Iran


Puerto Rico’s Dimming Future


Inside China’s Historic Protests


The Rhetoric That Led to the Club Q Violence


Pelosi’s 20 long years


Will More Iranian Protestors Face the Death Penalty?


We Want Politicians to Fear Women’s Voting Power


With Five Days to Go, Two Women Running for Governor Talk to The Meteor


What You Don’t Already Know About Extremism


Do NOT Ignore These Midterm Races


Georgia Tries to Define “Personhood”


“I’m Not Afraid to Keep Talking”


A Shocking Death Toll in Iran


Why Was Abuse in Women’s Soccer Ignored?


These Movies Really Miss the Mark on Abortion


Whoopi Goldberg’s Candid Message on Abortion


It’s About More Than a Hijab


Iranian Women Are Burning Their Hijabs


Meet the Black Filmmakers That Changed Representation in Movies 


Questions Like “What is a woman?” Work to Divide the Left


“Why Are We Still Talking About Royalty?”


Queen Elizabeth’s Complicated Legacy


It’s Been Ten Years Since Steubenville


Grieving Princess Diana Let Me Mourn My Brother


Missouri Parents Want to Bring Spanking Back


It’s always been hard for teens seeking abortions


Why “men are trash” is not enough


Liz Cheney’s Challenger Is a Nightmare


Are your apps snitching on you?


Don’t leave us, Serena


What You Should Know About Monkeypox


“It’s Going to be Fucking Chaos”


Six Black Women on the Meaning of Juneteenth


Why Everyone Online is Having Such a Ball Trashing Amber Heard


Min Jin Lee on Justice for Asian Americans


The Rest of the Story Behind America’s Labor Movement


On turning women’s pain into entertainment


What does a Black agenda look like?


“I didn’t want to be curated into whiteness”


Six months of the Taliban


The Great Unionization


Sara Nelson is the labor leader we need


Who is Black History Month actually for?


The start of something new


Roe on the line: An abortion access briefing


One year till the midterms: Come learn what’s ahead


Join us in Los Angeles October 16 for a special event with Professor Anita Hill


Listen: Professor Anita Hill & Dr. Christine Blasey Ford


Because of Anita: Highlights from our hosts


Because of Anita: A podcast about the testimony that changed everything


Abortion access after Texas: Come learn what’s ahead


Emily Ladau: Disability is part of the human experience


Introducing “In Love and Struggle: A Black Woman Grows in America”


Watch highlights from 21 For ’21: Visions For a Feminist Future


Mariane Pearl: Behind my ballot


Voter suppression: A conversation with directors Dawn Porter and Liz Garbus


Welcome to “The Meteor Explains”


Voting in 2020: Everything you need to know

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