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1 week ago | 
thepersistent.com | Monique El-Faizy |Ginanne Brownell
Infertility — 7 min read A few months after my twins were born via surrogacy in 2018, I sat down with a former state legislator named Gretchen Whitmer. She was running for governor in my home state of Michigan and I was interviewing her. After our interview we made small talk, as Midwest gals do. I explained that while I had grown up in Michigan, I was now based in London, but I was home for a few months waiting for my kids’ passports.
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1 month ago | 
progress.org.uk | Joanne Delange |Ginanne Brownell
On 18 February, President Trump signed an executive order – the directive changes neither the law nor policy – aimed at expanding access to IVF (see BioNews 1278). This was hailed by the White House as the president fulfilling yet another campaign promise, as he stated last summer that the government or insurance companies would cover the cost of IVF 'for all Americans that need it' (see BioNews 1254 and 1258).
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Ginanne Brownell
The debut of its sixth patented cut, the Royal Asscher Emerald, was just one of the celebration events.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
thepersistent.com | Ruchi Kumar |Ginanne Brownell |Naomi Cahn |June Carbone
There’s a gender gap among U.S. voters, and it’s substantial. Women, especially younger women, are more likely to lean Democratic. Men, as you likely guessed, are more likely to lean Republican. Data sources, too many to count, show this directionally, but to put some numbers to it, one survey suggests that about 57% of young women show a preference for Harris, while just 45% of men show a preference for her. In many ways, it makes sense.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
thepersistent.com | Ginanne Brownell |Holly Baxter |Ruchi Kumar
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2024, a handful of women marched down a street in Kabul. They formed a tight-knit huddle, their faces hidden behind masks. The women were protesting the Taliban, the extremist insurgent group that seized control of Afghanistan after the U.S. pulled out its troops in 2021. It was the first protest of its kind in over a year. The women had chosen to hold their protest on a day of historic significance to Afghanistan: The Sept.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
thepersistent.com | Holly Baxter |Ginanne Brownell
Growing up in Kigali, Peace Ndoli Iraguha was tenacious, driven, determined—and smart. She fit right in as a student at the prestigious Gashora Girls Academy of Science and Technology and never doubted she’d go on to university. Everything went to plan, but there was one surprise: When Iraguha stepped on campus at the University of Rwanda, she found herself wondering where all the women were.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
thepersistent.com | Francesca Donner |Ginanne Brownell
Politics — 5 min read Earlier this month, the New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote a column under the headline, “It’s No Big Deal That a Woman May Be President. What a Beautiful Thing.” I can’t argue with him on the second part of that headline. But the first part? It’s actually a very big deal. On Sunday, Joe Biden officially dropped out of the presidential race, firmly endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris in his stead.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
thepersistent.com | Francesca Donner |Ginanne Brownell |Emma Haslett
Once upon a time, a mom from Nebraska with a Ph.D. in anthropology and three kids, spoke about getting ready in the morning.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
thepersistent.com | Francesca Donner |Ginanne Brownell |Emma Haslett
Late on Saturday afternoon, a 20-year-old nursing home worker from a suburb of Pittsburgh, climbed onto the roof of a building outside the perimeter of a Trump rally in Butler, Pa. A few minutes after Donald Trump took the stage to address his supporters, Thomas Matthew Crooks aimed his gun at the former president and shot.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
thepersistent.com | Ginanne Brownell |Emma Haslett |Francesca Donner
Politics — 7 min read Whatever your politics, last Sunday’s election in France was, not to put too fine a point upon it, dramatique. The first round of parliamentary elections at the end of June had established a clear lead for the far-right National Rally, the party of Marine Le Pen. The idea that the extreme far right might clinch the majority in the French parliament looked not only possible, but actually plausible.
