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What Just Happened?: The Supreme Court Sides with LGBTQ Americans
In a surprising twist, the Supreme Court decided that Title VII has always covered gender identity, meaning that it’s illegal to terminate a trans person’s employment because they’re trans.
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What Just Happened?: The Murder of George Floyd
Now is the time to rise up, and people across the United States are meeting that demand.
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What Just Happened?: Coronavirus Is Here
We are not helpless. Educating ourselves is the first step: Once we know what we’re facing, we can act.
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What Just Happened?: The Acquittal of Donald Trump
Even if the arc of the moral universe does bend toward justice—and it’s not clear that it does—it’s little comfort in a time as tenuous as this one.
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What Just Happened?: The Impeachment of 45
Impeachment proceedings are rare and complicated. What do they actually mean?
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What Just Happened?: Back to Back Mass Shootings Are Our New Reality
These shootings are so routine, in fact, that many of us barely bat an eyelash or shed a tear before we’re forced to move on to the next tragedy, the next trauma, the next mass loss of life.
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What Just Happened?: Amazon Workers Are on Strike
Amazon’s evolution over the past 20 years has put a spotlight on the human cost of rampant capitalism
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What Just Happened?: Ohio Just Effectively Banned Abortion
The six-week abortion ban known as the “heartbeat bill” is now law in Ohio.
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What Just Happened?: The Mueller Report Won’t Save Us
It looks like this monstrous presidency has some smarmy new fuel.
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What Just Happened?: The Year of the Woman 2.0
Last night was a powerful start to taking back the democratic process.
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