Women are losing jobs, leaving the workforce, and reporting high levels of financial insecurity.
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Posted inLaw and Justice
In Kentucky, Impeachment Threatens Judicial Independence
The state’s legislature, echoing Trump, could oust a judge not for misconduct such as accepting a bribe, but for her opinions from the bench.
Posted inPolitics
Why Democrats Should Become the Party of Medically Assisted Dying
Most Americans support legislation to give people autonomy over their death. But the Catholic Church is standing in their way.
Posted inFeatured, Law and Justice, Political Animal
McConnell to 17th Amendment: Drop Dead
In Kentucky, a new GOP-driven law denies the (Democratic) governor the ability to fill vacant Senate seats and gives it to party apparatchiks. A classic Mitch power play, it flouts the Constitution.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Why the Senate Trial Will Be a Sham
All the incentives for the Senate Republicans align against allowing fact witnesses.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Kentucky Shows How to Win Elections Without Losing Liberal Values
The way to appeal to the white working class without compromising liberal values is to support labor and go after market consolidation and regional inequality.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Why Is Rand Paul’s Attacker Charged With a Misdemeanor?
He raced across the senator’s lawn and caved in his rib cage. There must be more to this story.
Posted inFeatured, Politics
How Steve Beshear Can Cripple the GOP
His response to Trump’s speech was widely pilloried, but the former Kentucky governor was the right man for the job.
Posted inEducation, Featured, Higher Education
My Journey from Kentucky’s Rural Poverty to Wellesley — and Across the Empathy Gap
“My story embodies the idea that education is freedom.”
