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Trump Officials Trolling Journalists Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg

3 days ago | msmagazine.com | Liam Scott

This story was originally published by The Contrarian. When The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg revealed last month that he had inadvertently been invited into a Signal group chat of senior U.S. national security officials, the news dominated headlines, cable broadcasts and social media for several days. While Democratic lawmakers called for an investigation into the incident, Trump officials set their sights elsewhere: on Goldberg himself.
'Care Is a Political Act': MADRE’s Global Legacy of Organizing and Solidarity

6 days ago | msmagazine.com | Eleanor Bader

In the mid-1980s, neither Amnesty International nor Human Rights Watch considered rape a weapon of war or categorized sexual assault as a violation of human rights. But MADRE did. The 40-year-old, U.S.-based global feminist organization helped correct these egregious omissions.
She Was Tracking Post-Roe Abortions. The Trump Administration Just Pulled Her Funding.

1 week ago | msmagazine.com | Shefali Luthra

Originally published in The 19th on April 9, 2025. Diana Greene Foster is responsible for landmark research on the effects of abortion access—a massive 10-year study that tracked thousands of people who had an abortion or were denied one. But funding for a follow-up to her seminal Turnaway Study has just been cut as part of a wave of canceled health policy research. Foster received a MacArthur “genius grant” for the Turnaway Study.
The U.S. Aid Freeze: Counting the Global Cost of Chaos

1 week ago | msmagazine.com | Jodi Enda |Claire Provost |Allan Olingo

This piece was published in partnership with The Fuller Project and Ms. magazine. Published in partnership with The Fuller Project, a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to the coverage of women’s issues around the world. Sign up for The Fuller Project’s newsletter. GOLINI, KENYA—Saumu Mwavugadi gazed from her veranda past mud-walled chicken coops and umbrella-like acacia trees to a vast horizon of hills. The heat was unrelenting on this March day, and Mwavugadi cradled her 2-week-old daughter in her arms.
Lawsuit Against Crisis Pregnancy Center Leads to Groundbreaking Massachusetts Law Regulating Ultrasounds: 'A Chink in the Armor'

1 week ago | msmagazine.com | Carrie Baker

Antiabortion crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) across the United States receive state and federal funds but have operated with little or no government oversight. CPCs use unsterilized transvaginal ultrasounds wands inside of patients, delay access to lifesaving care by misdiagnosing serious medical conditions and steal patient data from real medical clinics, according to investigative reporting and lawsuits filed against them.
We Are the Majority

1 week ago | msmagazine.com | Pat Mitchell

From Pat Mitchell’s April 4, 2025 newsletter. What percentage of people around the world want their governments to do more to fix the climate crisis? The answer surprised me—and I have a feeling it might surprise you, too: A slew of new studies have found that the vast majority of the human population—80 to 89 percent—want governments to do more about the climate crisis. We are the majority.
One Mom, Two Kids, and a Chronically Ill Husband: The Hidden Burden of Multigenerational Caregivers

1 week ago | msmagazine.com | Jennifer Levin

The following is an excerpt from Generation Care: The New Culture of Caregiving, published April 8. Lizzie, a 34-year-old mom who cares for her husband with long COVID, is emblematic of how the classic sandwich generation has evolved for our generation into the multigenerational caregiver—caring for multiple family members of, you guessed it, different generations; in Lizzie’s case, her husband and children.
Have You No Decency?

1 week ago | msmagazine.com | Jennifer Weiss-Wolf

Originally published in the Substack The Contrarian on April 9, 2025. “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” The iconic query—best known for the public takedown of U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy and his fearmongering campaign and persecution of Americans with supposed ties to communism and other “transgressions”—is making a comeback. With renewed relevance and urgency, U.S. Rep. Bill Keating (D-Mass.) invoked the line a few weeks ago as a rebuke of fellow House member U.S. Rep.
'As Journalists, It’s All About Us Being Authentic and Telling the Truth': Darlene Rodriguez on 25 Years at NBC New York

2 weeks ago | msmagazine.com | Livia Follet

As Darlene Rodriguez was in the early stages of her now 25-year career as an anchor at NBC New York she was pregnant with her first child and was told: “I hope you’re going to get a live-in nanny.”“First of all, my grandmother would kill me,” said Rodriguez. “That’s exactly what I didn’t want.
Trump's War on Older Women

2 weeks ago | msmagazine.com | Martha Burk

By now we all know that President Trump’s various policies and announcements have targeted immigrants, institutions with DEI programs and several federal agencies, including ones that focus on media, libraries, museums and ending homelessness. But one of the biggest groups caught in his crosshairs is older women. He’s going after their well-being big time by all but demolishing Social Security through his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).