My mouth dropped open in response, but no words came out.

Right-wing and extremist politicians here in the U.S. want us to believe that banning abortion will make it disappear. The ...

Health insurance premiums have climbed to their highest in 15 years, and the “Big Beautiful Bill” adds further uncertainty to coverage. Families and employers are alike alarmed by the financial strain ...

“Food stamps gave me the time to rebuild my life. Using hunger as political leverage isn’t fiscal policy. It’s a moral failure.” I’ve been that mother in the grocery store line, food stamps in hand, ...

Stimming, in all its forms, reflects our shared need for grounding, an expression of the connection between body and mind. Self-stimulatory behaviors are often associated with autism, but in truth, ...

I can’t help but wonder what the long-term consequences are to a society that suppresses our empathy and humanity in the name of self care? When I had my son two years ago, I came home with my husband ...

After seeing herself partially quoted by Women’s eNews, Tonya Lovelace realized that the word “bad”–on its own–disserves the discussion of black women and domestic violence. Here’s her longer version, ...

CNN producer Ingrid Formanek says the HBO film based on her career, “Live from Baghdad,” makes it seem that she did little but bat her eyelashes, smoke cigarettes, and drink. A tough journalist, ...

Credit: Keerthivasan Rajamani/keerth on Flickr, under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). (WOMENSENEWS)–Rosa Parks‘ most historic hour may have occurred on the bus in December 1955 but a moment that ...

In her recent address before the United Nations Security Council, the Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Pramila Patten delivered a searing account of the devastating and shocking ...