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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre (left) and domestic policy advisor Neera Tanden (right) answer questions on Aug. 29, 2023, on a recently announced list of the first 10 medicines that will see a decrease in price following negotiations with Medicare. (Win McNamee / Getty Images)

BY MARTHA BURK | The Medicare drug negotiation breakthrough has been a long time coming—58 years to be exact. It’s about time. But it’s also about money, especially for women.

Ms. spoke with Neera Tanden, domestic policy advisor to President Biden, about the benefits and what took so long.

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In the last few decades, women’s stories have been significantly underrepresented in the news compared to men’s, at a ratio of approximately one to five. (The International Women’s Media Foundation)

BY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S MEDIA FOUNDATION | Both Elisa Lees Muñoz and Cindi Leive have built their decades-long careers creating and uplifting reporting by and for women. In this back-and-forth conversation, the two journalists discuss the risks women in the news face, the importance of women-centered and feminist reporting, and how we can best protect press freedom.

(This essay is part of the “Feminist Journalism is Essential to Democracy” project—Ms. magazine’s latest installment of Women & Democracy, presented in partnership with the International Women’s Media Foundation.)

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Mourners at a funeral for victims of 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, Birmingham, Alabama, late September, 1963. (Burton McNeely / Getty Images)

BY ANGELA M WARD | Lawmakers are barring the education of, or exposure to, an understanding of the purposes and catalysts for the civil rights movement and the lasting impacts of white supremacy and white superiority by insisting on revisionist history and outright elimination of teaching facts in schools.

As Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson reminded us on the anniversary of the Birmingham bombing, “The uncomfortable lessons are often the ones that teach us the most about ourselves.”

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In conversation with experts, Prof. Dorothy Roberts uncovers how over time, the child welfare system went from neglecting Black children to over policing and separating Black families. She also investigates how family policing and taking children has been a tool to suppress Black resistance against racial oppression and continues to surveil, regulate, and punish Black families today.

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