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2024 Begins with a Spate of ‘Disturbing’ Threats, Many against Women Officials
The spike in incidents comes as President Joe Biden kicks off his 2024 campaign schedule and marks the third anniversary of January 6.
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Life on the Campaign Trail, with Kids
When Patricia Jehlen first ran for school committee in Somerville, Massachusetts in the mid-1970s, she got lucky. She had a friend who ran a daycare out of her house, who offered to look after Jehlen’s two small children while she campaigned. Her husband worked full-time, and she needed to knock on thousands of doors to secure her seat, making child care a necessity.
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5 Ways to Make 2024 Politically Powerful for Women
Last year, women showed their clout at the ballot box to win back fundamental freedoms. In 2024, here’s how to secure their political influence even further.
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This Is How Black Women Leaders Do Not Survive
OPINION: Former Harvard President Claudine Gay’s resignation is now a reminder of the irreconcilability of successful Black womanhood with powerful, wealthy and predominantly white institutions.
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Special SC Senate Election Makes History
Women made up 14.7% of the 170 people in the Legislature in 2023, according to Rutgers’ Center for American Women and Politics.
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Democracy and Women’s Rights in 2024
Research shows that where women have greater political representation, governments are more likely to support reproductive rights.
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Claudine Gay’s Resignation Proves That Black Women’s Leadership Is Still Political
Much of the criticism wasn’t about legitimate concerns about academic integrity or campus antisemitism. It was about who is in power.
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Claudine Gay: What Just Happened at Harvard Is Bigger Than Me
On Tuesday, I made the wrenching but necessary decision to resign as Harvard’s president. For weeks, both I and the institution to which I’ve devoted my professional life have been under attack.
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SC’s State Senate Will Now Have Six Women
South Carolina’s state Senate will now have six women. On Tuesday, voters in state Senate District 19 elected Columbia Democrat Tameika Isaac Devine to complete the final year of the late John Scott’s term in the overwhelmingly Democratic district.
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How Taylor Swift Became the Loudest Woman We’ve Ever Seen
When Time Magazine named Taylor Swift their Person of the Year, they weren't just anointing a cultural hero who has the power to break and re-make the human heart with her art, move economies, and tell a fully-immersive, narcotically deep-veined story you wouldn't leave even if you could. They were correctly identifying the woman whose life's work embodies the famously difficult endeavor for a woman to own her own voice.