Eleanor J. Bader

Police officers had entered Hamilton Hall with guns raised as they brutalized student protesters on Tuesday.

The fight to free women and end mass incarceration is long and ongoing, but these activists aren’t giving up.

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More than 100,000 uninsured people covered by DACA are expected to utilize the program.

70 years after Brown v. Board of Education, the. U.S. lacks "separate but equal” desegregation and educational equity for Black students and girls.

A new report reveals the city's plans to clear homeless encampments and jail vulnerable residents.

Thousands have lost medications, birth certificates, IDs, treasured family photos and the ashes of loved ones.

Roe v. Wade was overturned on June 24, 2022. But according to Shefali Luthra, author of Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America, “it had been on the verge of collapse for decades.” After all, most Medicaid recipients had lost insurance coverage for the procedure in 1977 and a plethora of restrictions—from parental consent and notification requirements for minors, to mandated counseling sessions to dissuade people from ending their pregnancies—had long kept procedural abortion out of reach for large segments of the population. Undue Burden digs into this lack of preparedness by introducing diverse people who have been directly impacted by the decision—people who have had to travel hundreds of miles to have an abortion, people whose highly-anticipated pregnancies became untenable, a trans man who became pregnant shortly after beginning his transition, and a young couple who lacked the emotional and financial resources to welcome a second child, among them. Their stories are juxtaposed with those of overwrought clinicians as well as staff at abortion funds. The result is a poignant and dramatic look at the stakes of losing Roe and a compassionate assessment of the human toll wrought by Dobbs.

For decades, tenants with criminal records have been restricted from accessing public housing. This may soon change.

At least 21 million people have been disenrolled from Medicaid since states began eligibility redeterminations in 2023.