Eleanor J. Bader

PUBLISHED by According to the Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) , the state of Louisiana “locks up a higher percentage of its people than any independent democratic country on earth.”

A new book explores what’s actually going on in public schools—and it’s not CRT.

Journalist Talia Lavin's second book, Wild Faith: How the Christian Right is Taking Over America, reports that a huge swath of the U.S. body politic—at least 10 million people—subscribe to the Evangelical notion that spiritual warfare is necessary to create God’s kingdom on earth. A deep distrust of secular authority, she writes, coupled with rigid ideas about gender, sexuality, and power has led many Evangelicals into conservative political activism. Lavin spoke to Ms. reporter Eleanor J. Bader several weeks before the book’s October 15 release.

Half a Century After Title IX, Universities and College Are Still Failing Student Women Survivors: The Ms. Q&A With Nicole Bedera

The voucher system came out of racist parents’ rejection of integrated schools in the ‘50s. It’s still hurting students.

Heightened efforts in recent years to paint public schools as bastions of ideological perversion, sexual permissiveness and anti-white ideology are part of a long-running campaign that is gaining momentum.

Through the Jailhouse Lawyer Initiative, Jhody Polk Is Building Legal Empowerment for Women in Jails and Prisons from the Inside Out

“Pills have become the frontline of the battle for abortion access,” writes professor and Ms. contributor editor Carrie N. Baker in her new book Abortion Pills: US History and Politics—the first to offer a comprehensive history of abortion pills in the United States.

AAUP president Todd Wolfson says unions like his are key to fighting Trump’s attacks on the bedrock of democracy.

The Texas State Board of Education will pay districts $60 a student to use a curriculum infused with Christian content.