How many words Biden spent on abortion and LGBTQ+ issues in his State of the Union — and why it matters
The annual address always covers myriad issues — and how much the president talks about each one signals priorities.
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For Rissi Palmer, country music is a form of Black resistance
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She grew up under water boil advisories in Jackson. Now she’s bringing environmental justice to the EPA.
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A 1993 family and medical leave law was supposed to be just the start. Thirty years later, not much has changed.
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Women lawmakers in Minnesota are in the vanguard of the democracy movement
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‘Violence is not the answer to violence’: Lawyer makes case for abolition feminism in new book
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