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The article discusses the shift in the approach of the USDA towards emphasizing family farms and regional food systems, as well as promoting soil-building and carbon-sequestering practices. This change is popular among producers and is seen as necessary for sustaining the food system and addressing climate change. The article also highlights the importance of promoting economic diversity and local ownership, including providing easier access to grants and loans for smaller businesses and redirecting financial incentives from corporate chains to local independent businesses. Additionally, the article mentions the need for progressive policies to rebuild rural communities and create a more resilient economy, particularly in the context of upcoming elections. The interview with political philosopher Susan Neiman explores the concept of "woke" and its implications for the left, emphasizing the importance of universalism and justice in addressing issues of discrimination. The article concludes by discussing the rise of reactionary forces globally and the role of tribalism in reacting to neoliberalism. [Extracted from the article]

Abortion bans not only restrict the right to choose, but they also hinder doctors from providing necessary medical care for pregnancies with serious complications. These complications can be life-threatening and require immediate termination of the pregnancy. The restrictions and vague exceptions in abortion laws make it difficult for doctors to act, leading to delays in treatment and potential harm to patients. The article highlights the case of a patient who experienced a life-threatening miscarriage and the challenges faced by doctors in providing the necessary care. The author argues that these laws are an assault on the practice of medicine and undermine patient welfare. The Center for Reproductive Rights is currently pursuing legal action on behalf of women and doctors affected by these restrictions. The article concludes by stating that these laws have shed light on the dangers of pregnancy and the need for access to safe and timely abortion care. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the issue of declining birth rates in France and China and the government's attempts to address this problem. French President Emmanuel Macron has called for "demographic rearmament" and proposed measures such as more support for infertile couples and revising parental leave. However, the article questions whether these measures will be effective in encouraging women to have more children, as raising a child involves significant physical, emotional, and financial sacrifices. In China, the one-child policy has led to a population imbalance and a reluctance among young women to prioritize marriage and motherhood. The article suggests that instead of using punitive measures, governments should consider offering substantial incentives to make having children more attractive. [Extracted from the article]

The article highlights various organizations that are in need of assistance and support. These groups include American Near East Refugee Aid, which provides relief and development in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Jordan; The Brigid Alliance and WRRAP, which help low-income women access abortion services; Secular Rescue, which helps individuals facing persecution for their beliefs escape to safer places; Afghan Women's Fund, which supports education for girls in Afghanistan; Wisconsin Democrats, who are working to maintain their political gains in the state; Black Voters Matter, which focuses on grassroots organizing to support Black voters; Health in Harmony, which works with Indigenous communities to address climate change and healthcare needs; Canadian Harambee Education Society, which funds education for girls in rural Kenya and Tanzania; Alice's Kids, which provides basic necessities and support to children in need; and various print magazines, including The Nation and the Texas Observer, which rely on donations to continue their work. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses Mike Johnson, the new Speaker of the House, who claims to believe in "18th-century values." However, it is revealed that Johnson's interpretation of these values is not aligned with the Enlightenment ideals of questioning religious dogma and government by kings. Instead, he advocates for the state enforcement of religion, which goes against the separation of church and state that the 18th century was beginning to establish. The article also highlights that the founding fathers, despite their personal beliefs, did not set up the government based on biblical principles and instead chose to keep faith a personal matter. The author suggests that Johnson's views may align more with the Middle Ages rather than the Enlightenment. [Extracted from the article]

Britz worried about ensuring students an appealing social life: "Once you become decidedly female in enrollment, fewer males and, as it turns out, fewer females find your campus attractive." COLUMNS CONSIDER THE MANY DIFFICULTIES GIRLS have to surmount to get into college these days. Good jobs for women - teaching, nursing and other healthcare work, most office jobs - require college. [Extracted from the article]

When Monica's younger sister, driving alone just after she got her license, died in a crash - a common occurrence for Clinton teens - neighbors consoled the family with the thought that "when God wants to call you home, there's nothing you can do." When Darci went "boy crazy" in middle school, like most girls her age, Virginia pretty much threw up her hands: Darci would make her own "choices." Clinton's girls were left susceptible to predatory men, ubiquitous drug use, and the abstinence-only sex ed that has helped give Arkansas the nation's highest rate of teen pregnancy. [Extracted from the article]

No wonder medical students are refusing to train in abortion-ban states. Tennessee's Republican governor, Bill Lee, is proposing that his state, where abortion is now totally banned, will cover half the cost of diapers for the first two years. But no, anti-choicers frame abortion bans as the only protection necessary, when in fact bans interfere with the practice of medicine even in the case of wanted pregnancies. [Extracted from the article]

Even in the 19th century, when divorce was hard to get and few women could support themselves, women filed the majority of divorce petitions in the US; today, it's more than two-thirds. COLUMNS Republicans have been on quite a successful rampage against modern life: banning abortion, trying to make contraception harder to get, dumping books about race, sex, gender, and the Holocaust (the Holocaust?!) from school libraries, tormenting trans people. Fun story: Crowder went viral for portraying himself as a victim of no-fault divorce, expressing shock that his wife could divorce him without his permission even "in Texas" - shortly before a video emerged in which he berated his heavily pregnant wife for, among other domestic failings, not being "wife-worthy.". [Extracted from the article]

That would be Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump-appointed federal judge in Amarillo, Tex., with a substantial record of anti-abortion views. Trump was elected by right-wing evangelicals and Catholics, and he paid his dues: It is because of that lazy buffoon that there is a conservative anti-choice supermajority on the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary is stuffed with right-wing Christians like Kacsmaryk. COLUMNS Subject to Debate IT TOOK FIVE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES TO TAKE away the right of more than half the people in the country to end a pregnancy. [Extracted from the article]

Around the time of the Dobbs decision last summer, Michelle Goldberg and Susan Faludi each wrote a piece for The New York Times warning that women were being pushed backward, and both criticized the feminist movement for failing to meet the moment. Subject Debate For Women's History Month this year, let's not rest on our laurels. Faludi argued that feminists had become obsessed with celebrity and individualism, while Goldberg noted the numerous ways that feminism was increasingly unpopular - perceived as "cringe" by young women, and less favorably by younger men than by their fathers. [Extracted from the article]

Even before Dobbs, super-red Wyoming had no real abortion clinic, just one lone provider prescribing pills for early terminations. The need is great - because of the Hyde Amendment, the procedure is not performed on reservations, and many Native Americans are low-income and live far from clinics. iwrising.org 7. ARC-Southeast helps with procedures, travel, and logistical support in the great abortion desert that is the US South. [Extracted from the article]

In California, 66 percent of voters passed Proposition 1, enshrining abortion and contraception rights in the state Constitution. Moreover, ABC News reports that "in the 14 states that have ceased nearly all abortion services, 63 percent now support legal abortion, up 20 points since April." In the run-up to the midterms, we heard a lot about how abortion had "peaked too soon" - a friend even suggested that the Supreme Court deliberately released the Dobbs decision in June precisely to give voters enough time to forget about it. [Extracted from the article]

Sheila May-Stein is the librarian at Perry High School in Pittsburgh, the only high school in a neighborhood with a large Black and low-income population. Until this year, May-Stein's budget for new books was zero. "If you were to go to any decently funded school in southwest Pennsylvania", May-Stein told me, "you will find they have full-on football arenas and no libraries.". [Extracted from the article]

Last year the woman corroborated Reade's claim that Biden had touched her neck and shoulders but said it wasn't sexual, which is also what Reade said at the time. When Reade claimed assault this past March, the friend corroborated that, too, and said she had kept Reade's confidences because "it just wasn't my place." In an interview with Rich McHugh of Business Insider, LaCasse said Reade told her about the assault in 1995 or '96 but admitted she had forgotten about it until Reade reminded her. Manne took my colleague Joan Walsh to task for writing in a recent opinion piece that there is "no evidence" that Biden sexually assaulted Reade. [Extracted from the article]

The article explores the renewed growth of the feminist movement in the U.S. following the election of Donald Trump as president. It describes the significance of the Women's March held on the first full day of Trump's regime and other examples of political activism by women. It also discusses the rise of the #MeToo movement which involves famous and powerful men being accused of sexual harassment and molestation by women.

Several article are presented about #MeToo, a social movement and awareness campaign that was launched in October 2017 to denounce sexual assault and harassment in the U.S., in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations against film producer and executive Harvey Weinstein. Issues discussed include addressing the rights of working women in the country, how to improve condition of women in the workplace, and the need to provide basic understanding about the meaning of masculinity and manhood.

In total, 46 percent of Senate Democrats and 40 percent of Democrats in the House are 65 or over. Would a younger set of Democrats put more energy into doing something about student loans, housing costs, or the astronomical child care costs that keep mothers at home when they want go to work? If she had retired at 80, when Obama was president and Dems controlled the Senate, we'd be living in a different world. [Extracted from the article]

Abortion opponents cite an old Guttmacher Institute poll to claim that poverty is the cause of 73 percent of abortions. COLUMNS Ever since supreme court justice samuel alito's draft opinion in Dobbs was leaked, some anti-abortion writers have been saying that the "culture of life" means supporting pregnant women and their babies, too. In a Times op-ed, the anti-abortion bioethicist David Albert Jones argues that maternity in countries where abortion is illegal can be just as safe as in countries where abortion is permitted - even safer. [Extracted from the article]

COLUMNS HERE'S MY SOLUTION TO THE FORMULA SHORTAGE: MEN should breastfeed. The market is controlled by just four companies, with Abbott, which produces most of the formulas for babies with allergies and other medical conditions, taking about a 40 percent share. '" Apparently, some women can restart lactation after breastfeeding has ceased, so mothers who breastfed their babies and want to shame formula users to justify their own exhaustion, sore nipples, mastitis, lost work, restricted diets, and forgone medications can also step in. [Extracted from the article]

Currently, 15 states, as well as the District of Columbia, have enshrined legal abortion in their constitutions or statutes; we need all blue and purple states to do so, because the forces that came for abortion in the red states will come hard at them now. This month it passed not only state constitutional protection of abortion, but laws protecting providers, abortion travelers, and those who help them from the legal reach of abortion-ban states. That is going to be magnified many times over in the 26 states poised to ban or greatly restrict abortion once Roe is overturned - and those women will be traveling farther as neighboring states pass bans of their own. [Extracted from the article]

That's why people have bombed and burned down abortion clinics and murdered doctors and staffers - it's all to "save babies." A great deal of ingenuity has been expended by anti-abortion intellectuals like Robert P. George and Ramesh Ponnuru to explain why, even though embryos and fetuses are children, abortion should not be punished as severely as homicide. When a politician - George H.W. Bush, Donald Trump - forgets where he is and says, sure, women should be punished if abortion becomes a crime, anti-abortion leaders express horror and the politician retracts it pretty quickly. [Extracted from the article]

This was New York City, so abortion, with state Medicaid funding, was readily available. At the time, about 100,000 abortions were performed per year in New York City.) I thought of my friend while reading the latest round of promises from abortion opponents about all the great things they'll do for women who will be forced to go through with unwanted pregnancies, now that the Supreme Court seems ready to overturn Roe v. Wade or at least permit greater restrictions on the right to choose. It cannot be said often enough that most women who have abortions are mothers: The woman who needs an abortion and the woman who needs diapers are the same person. [Extracted from the article]

Barbara wrote about toxic masculinity before Jordan Peterson and incels and about white middle-class economic anxieties before Trump. BARBARA EHRENREICH DIED ON SEPTEMBER 1, FROM the aftereffects of a severe stroke. That side of second-wave feminism has been all but lost, but as Deirdre, Barbara's longtime friend as well as writing partner, told me, "We were fighting for a women's movement that was for all women, and Barbara never forgot that - the class consciousness of early feminism.". [Extracted from the article]

Instead, says my Nation colleague Micah Sifry, give to the Movement Voter Project, which funds grassroots organizing among youth and people of color in purplish states like Georgia and Pennsylvania. COLUMNS IT'S THE HOLIDAY SEASON, AND YOU KNOW WHAT THAT means: latkes with mistletoe sprinkles, the great debate over "Baby, It's Cold Outside", and this column's traditional recommendations for donations. Hope for Haiti has worked for 30 years in health care, education, and disaster relief and comes recommended by both writer Roxane Gay and The Nation's own Haiti correspondent, Amy Wilentz. [Extracted from the article]

LEFTies made fun of the woman - yes, blond and white - carrying a sign at the 2017 Women's March that read "If Hillary was president we'd be at brunch." Polling maven Sean McElwee tells me Virginia will stay blue, but last week I was so anxious I signed up with Vote Forward to write letters to registered Virginia Democrats who don't always vote. In fact, women like that sign-holder geared up for action and became the much-mocked "Resistance", which did so much to deliver the House, the Senate, and the White House to Democrats. [Extracted from the article]

COLUMNS I titled my first book of essays reasonable creatures, after Mary Wollstonecraft's famous remark "I wish to see women neither heroines nor brutes but reasonable creatures." Yes, one in seven Americans agreed with the statement "The government, media, and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child-sex-trafficking operation." America has always had a lot of crazy right-wingers, but it's one thing to believe that the Soviet Union was out to destroy us and another to believe that the world is run by a ring of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who kill and eat children to get their adrenochrome fix. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the focus on love in pro-choice campaign in Ireland prior to the country's referendum to legalize abortion on May 25, 2018. An overview of the role that the death of pregnant woman Savita Halappanavar in Ireland played in the referendum campaign, due to the Irish Constitution Eighth Amendment's banning of abortion, is provided.

Even now, although a medical abortion looks exactly like a natural miscarriage, there have been cases of women being arrested after going to the ER with excessive bleeding - there are a lot of antiabortion people who work in hospitals - or after they confide in the wrong sister or friend or roommate. At issue is a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks of gestation in explicit defiance of Roe, which protects abortion rights until around 24 weeks. Despite Roe, states where antichoicers are strong have succeeded in drastically limiting abortion access by passing measures that force clinics to close - five have only one - and heap up obstacles that keep women from accessing abortions in time. [Extracted from the article]

Millions of poor children are essentially thrown away, along with their mothers, by their societies - illiterate or barely literate, with zero prospects, suffering from all kinds of illness and trauma, and doomed to the lowest kind of work, if any. Not only do modern economies, higher education, and urban living enable women's independence, giving them all kinds of ideas, but modern economies also require a large class of educated people. India's statistics are similar, and a growing gender imbalance due to sex-selective abortion and other factors exists in many other countries, from Armenia to Vietnam. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on feminism in the periodical "The Nation." Topics include how feminism is portrayed in mass media in the U.S., the history of the feminist movement in the U.S., and the revitalization of the feminism in the U.S. in 2015. Information is provided on the role of women in politics and social change in the U.S.

The article presents reprints of articles, images, book reviews, and quotations from the publication between the years 1985-1995, including “Terrorism and Its Discontents” by Christopher Hitchens from the August 3, 1985 issue, “For Jesse Jackson and His Campaign” by Andrew Kopkind from the April 16, 1988 issue, and “What Can the White Man Say to the Black Woman?” by Alice Walker from the May 22, 1989 issue. A timeline of U.S. events for this period is also presented.

The article focuses on the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the offices of the periodical "Charlie Hebdo" in Paris, France on January 7, 2015. Topics include the French concept of 'laïcité,' which refers to secularism, freedom of speech in France, and France's ban on head scarves worn by women and girls.

An excerpt from the book "Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights" by Katha Pollitt is presented in which the author discuses her opinions regarding women's abortion rights and her stance as pro-choice.

You might think 12 rules were enough - by Rule 12, "Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street", Peterson seemed to be reaching a bit. The rules are mostly familiar self-help platitudes, which Peterson drags out for dozens of pages each by bringing in everything from his patients and family to ISIS, Osiris, and Tolstoy. COLUMNS TO PREPARE FOR WRITING ABOUT JORDAN PETERSON, I asked numerous people I know what they thought of him. [Extracted from the article]

I have no problem talking about the lack of girls when I read Dr. Seuss's books (or anyone else's) to children, any more than my parents, who were atheists, had problems giving me a book of Bible stories. COLUMNS Subject to Debate NEVER MIND DR. seuss's six discontinued books. for the record, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street is a work of considerable genius, despite the offending cartoon of a Chinese man eating rice, and McElligot's Pool is pretty great too, despite its use of the outmoded word "Eskimo", complete with clichéd depiction of an Inuit in fur-lined parka. However, as many have pointed out, the rights are owned by Dr. Seuss Enterprises, and if it doesn't want to keep the books in print, that's its privilege, just the way Amazon is within its rights to drop When Harry Became Sally and keep Mein Kampf. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses issues concerning the role of misogyny in the victory of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. Topics covered include percentage of women who voted for Trump's Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton, a study which found that hostile sexism was one of the biggest predictors of Trump support and the impact of Trump's victory on the feminist movement.

COLUMNS Subject Debate SOMETIME IN THE 1990S, A FRIEND TOLD ME WE DIDN'T have to worry about progress for women: "Feminism is in the drinking water now." Some of this is because of the fields women are concentrated in: child care, for example, an almost entirely female job category, as well as retail, travel, hospitality, housecleaning, caregiving, and other jobs requiring extensive social contact. He has the benefit of her domestic labor, which his female coworkers do not have; domestic and workplace inequality work together. [Extracted from the article]

Founded in 1997, SisterSong is a women-of-color reproductive justice collective based in the South that promotes abortion and contraception access and fights the criminalization of women of color for miscarriage, abortion, and more. It's involved in everything from getting out the vote to leadership development to suing the governor of Georgia over the state's fetal heartbeat abortion ban (currently on hold). You may have read that Polish women have taken to the streets over a constitutional court decision mandating a near- total ban on abortion. [Extracted from the article]

When Donald Trump was elected, Uncle Harry predicted that the next four years would be awful but there would be only two things that couldn't be undone even if the Democrats won in 2020: the destruction Trump would wreak on the environment and the justices he would put on the Supreme Court. Trump's three Supreme Court appointments (Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett) are so far to the right that Chief Justice John Roberts is now a centrist. Uncle Harry didn't mention the lower courts, but let's not forget that Trump has nominated and the Senate has confirmed 218 federal judges to lifetime appointments; that's a quarter of the federal judge total. [Extracted from the article]

COLUMNS The title of Mary Trump's book about her family, Too Much and Never Enough, expresses my feelings perfectly. There's plenty of both in this well-written tell-all by Mary Trump, the daughter of Donald's older brother, Fred Jr. Years before, Fred Sr. had essentially arranged for Mary's mother, Linda, to be massively cheated in her divorce settlement, leaving her and her children - Fred Sr.'s grandchildren!. [Extracted from the article]

COLUMNS So many monuments to racism, slavery, and colonialism have been toppled, removed, or slated for removal in the wake of the George Floyd protests that Wikipedia's army of volunteer editors is keeping a running tally: Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and a slew of other Confederate generals and notable white supremacists and segregationists; Frank Rizzo, the notoriously racist mayor ("Vote white") of Philadelphia; even symbolic figures like the Pioneer and Pioneer Mother, formerly of the University of Oregon in Eugene. That nice Pope Francis thought so well of Father Junípero Serra that he canonized him in 2015, despite Native Americans' objections to Serra's harsh and coercive missionary work. And why did it take the horrible killing of George Floyd and the marching of hundreds of thousands of protesters daily for weeks to achieve what is, after all, a symbolic victory?. [Extracted from the article]