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Here’s what you need to know about reproductive coercion

(Content note: this article contains mentions and descriptions of intimate partner violence and reproductive coercion.) Removing a condom mid-intercourse without consent (or stealthing), getting rid...

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Understanding inflation, all of its causes, and who it affects the most

You’re not imagining the rising cost of groceries and how much it costs to fill up your car’s tank. Inflation is currently at a 40-year high, with the cost of groceries, gas, utilities, and housing...

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How worker cooperatives shift power to workers 

Five years ago, the only full-service grocery store in the Walnut Hills neighborhood in Cincinnati closed.  It was a blow to the neighborhood, home mostly to Black residents. Community activists,...

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Greenwashed advertising falsely promises we can buy our way out of the...

The climate crisis is here, and companies and institutions are starting to take notice. Across digital retail stores, sustainability policy pages touting net-zero and carbon neutrality are becoming...

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Here’s everything you need to know about abortion funds, post-Roe

On June 24, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in a decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, a case that federally protected the right to abortion. Though the...

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How PCOS patients are affected by the fall of Roe

Methotrexate prescriptions are suddenly being denied to people who have long benefited from its use. The medication is commonly prescribed to treat rheumatic and autoimmune diseases, severe psoriasis,...

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Why the Ohio train derailment’s environmental impacts remain unclear

A month after a train derailment disaster in the town of East Palestine, Ohio, questions about the environmental impact of toxic chemicals remain unanswered. The train, which derailed after a wheel...

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Intentional design can lay a blueprint for abolition

In 1829, when Pennsylvania’s Eastern State Penitentiary opened, it was a departure from American prisons and jails of the time. Undergirded by Quaker ideals about the power of solitude and silence in...

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Why are newsrooms manufacturing consent for Palestinian genocide?

Illinois landlord Joseph Czuba killed a 6-year-old Palestinian boy named Wadea Al-Fayoume on Oct. 14. As part of the hate crime, Czuba stabbed Al-Fayoume 26 times and also stabbed the boy’s mother,...

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Death Camp USA: From Zyklon B to nitrogen hypoxia

“I’m being housed in a ‘death camp.’ I mean that literally … [T]here is nothing resembling ‘correction’ that goes on for most of these prisoners. Like the Nazi concentration camps, this is a death...

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