: The Equal Rights Amendment and other advancements for women’s and civil rights hinge on the battle to eliminate an anti-democratic Senate rule: the filibuster. These days, the filibuster is routinely used to block even the most mundane matters from reaching the Senate floor. What’s at stake as we consider the immediate future of feminist priorities? The answer is just about everything.: In a Ms.
“Peace is not a lack of war … We don’t want a peaceful prison. We want a peaceful country that everyone is free in.”: The U.S. Supreme Court has just agreed to hear a case involving a Mississippi law that bans nearly all abortions after 15 weeks. The law “unquestionably violates nearly 50 years of Supreme Court precedent and is a test case to overturn Roe,” Nancy Northup of the Center for Reproductive Rights, tells Ms.