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WEB1 day ago · The State of Our Nation: Polling Americans’ priorities for Election 2024. Explore attitudes on the presidential race and its most prominent issues — from IVF to gender-affirming care to education — in the newest 19th News/SurveyMonkey poll. Jasmine Mithani, Terri Rupar · September 10. The 19th thanks our sponsors. Become one.
What is Project 2025? See full PDF summary document - The 19th
WEBJul 16, 2024 · Heritage Foundation has been releasing a “Mandate for Leadership” ahead of incoming presidential administrations since the early 1980s. Project 2025 is the latest iteration aimed at a second Trump administration. The former president has tried to distance himself, writing on his social media site Truth Social, “I know nothing about ...
What it’s like to be a pregnant trans man in America - The 19th
WEBDec 7, 2023 · Pregnant transmasculine people are vulnerable within a medical system that doesn’t understand them — so they’re turning to other trans people for help and solace. Sam Guido hadn’t wanted to give birth in a hospital at all — he was afraid to be there. As a transmasculine and nonbinary person, they had faced the same ignorance and ...
Why some states are requiring ID to see adult content, porn online
WEBJan 29, 2024 · In 2022, Louisiana became the first state to introduce and pass a law requiring websites that host adult content to verify that users are over 18 years old. Last year, six more states, including Virginia, passed similar laws, in some cases directly copying the language used in the Louisiana bill. According to the Free Speech Coalition, the ...
The history of Donald Trump’s sexual assault allegations - The 19th
WEBOct 26, 2023 · Updated. May 30, 2024, 2:33 p.m. PT. A month before the 2016 presidential election, a leaked tape revealed Donald Trump bragging about grabbing women’s genitals, captured on a hot mic during a 2005 “Access Hollywood” taping. In the immediate aftermath, many condemned his words.
Forced sterilization is legal in 31 states, new report shows - The 19th
WEBPublished. February 4, 2022, 9:08 a.m. PT. A new report shows that 31 states and the District of Columbia have laws allowing permanent forced sterilizations. Little discussed and largely unmonitored, the issue grabbed national attention last summer when the pop star Britney Spears testified that she was forced to use birth control by her father.
The night White women raised millions for Harris. And broke Zoom.
WEBJul 26, 2024 · Watts told The 19th that she wanted White women to follow the lead of the Black women who quickly organized behind Kamala Harris’s candidacy; on July 21, when President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed Harris, 44,000 of them gathered for the Win With Black Women Zoom call and raised $1.8 …
Extreme heat is making schools hotter — and learning harder
WEBJul 29, 2024 · The effect extreme heat is having on schools and child care is starting to get the attention of policymakers and researchers. Last week, the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank, published a report on the issue. In April, so did the Federation of American Scientists, a nonprofit policy organization. “The average school building in the U.S. was built nearly 50 years ago ...
Interview: Hillary Clinton on Kamala Harris, the DNC and leadership
WEBAug 22, 2024 · Vice President Kamala Harris is set to accept the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination Thursday night. It’s a moment Hillary Clinton, the party’s 2016 nominee, is uniquely familiar with. Clinton opened the Democratic National Convention on Monday with an emotional pitch to Americans to “keep going” and seize history by electing ...
Federal government joins ranks of employers with generous IVF …
WEBApr 3, 2024 · In 2023, employers had a median lifetime maximum benefit of $20,000 for IVF, according to the Mercer survey. The federal government’s IVF benefit — paying up to $25,000 a year — is more generous than that of a typical employer. Coverage is available through the popular Blue Cross and Blue Shield …