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Politics
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How PBS' Judy Woodruff saw politics change: ‘Women’s issues are everyone’s issues’
The ‘PBS NewsHour’ anchor and managing editor reflects on the changing landscape of gender, politics and journalism.
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Stacey Abrams: It is ‘wrong’ to compare her refusal to concede with Trump’s stolen election rhetoric
Republicans have continued to call Abrams’ actions in 2018 the original “Big Lie.” As Abrams runs for Georgia governor again, she wants to be clear she’s here to defend democracy.
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The Pell Grant exists because this woman lobbied for it
When women and Black Americans rarely influenced federal policy, Lois Dickson Rice lobbied successfully for the creation of the Pell Grant.
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Americans see the media as critical to democracy. Now what are we going to do with that?
Analysis | Understanding the relationship between voters and the media is critical for those of us whose work tries to bridge the gap.
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70% of Americans don’t trust politicians to make abortion policy, 19th News/SurveyMonkey poll finds
The majority of Americans — Republicans, Democrats, men, women and nonbinary people — distrust politicians even as states pass new restrictions.
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How we conduct 19th News/SurveyMonkey polls
More data helps us better cover and serve women and LGBTQ+ people. Here’s why we run polls — and how we report on them.
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Preserving democracy and economy are top issues motivating Americans to vote, 19th News/SurveyMonkey poll finds
The economy is bigger for Republicans and democracy bigger for Democrats as a motivating factor in this year’s midterm elections.
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Abortion bans like Lindsey Graham’s say they have rape and incest exceptions — in practice, they don’t work.
The exceptions require people to jump through significant logistical, legal and bureaucratic hoops that render them nearly impossible to utilize, experts said.
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Election 2022 results: Senate races we’re watching
Democrats will maintain their majority in the U.S. Senate after Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto notches a win in Nevada.
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Senator Patty Murray thinks this is the Year of the Women
Washington’s senior senator was first elected in 1992, the ‘Year of the Woman.’ As she runs for reelection, she believes anger over the Supreme Court’s abortion ruling will motivate women voters.