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A young asylum seeker is carried by his mother after crossing the nearby border with Mexico near the Jacumba Hot Springs on Nov. 30, 2023, in San Diego, Calif. (Qian Weizhong / VCG via Getty Images)

BY MARY GIOVAGNOLI | The Senate is feverishly debating the president’s $106 billion supplemental budget, which includes requests for additional aid to Ukraine and Israel, measures to counter China’s influence, significant humanitarian assistance funds, and border security. 

Republican negotiators have chosen to use the urgency of the foreign aid requests to squeeze concessions from the administration and Democratic senators around the asylum process itself.

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BY JULES HANISEE and EMMALINE KENNY | U.S. patriarchal authoritarianism is on the rise, and democracy is on the decline. But day after day, we stay vigilant in our goals to dismantle patriarchy at every turn. The fight is far from over. We are watching, and we refuse to go back. This is the War on Women Report.

This week: Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women shuttered after years of documented physical and sexual abuses by guards; a new White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research; Trump-appointed judges deal blow to Voting Rights Act; and more.

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The play area at A Place to Grow Children’s Center in Oak Hill, WV. (Courtesy of A Place to Grow Children’s Center)

BY EMILY TATE SULLIVAN | It’s been two months since the federal government’s $24 billion in childcare stabilization grants expired, sending the sector over what many have come to refer to as the “childcare cliff.”

The Biden administration has asked Congress to approve $16 billion in supplemental funding to support the early care and education sector. Short of that—which would be something of a miracle in the current political environment in Washington—providers and families are left to fend for themselves.

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In the final episode of the Torn Apart podcast, Dorothy Roberts makes the case for the abolition of the child welfare system and lays out a vision for the more just and equitable society that could replace it. In conversation with Professor Anna Arons of St. John’s University, Roberts uses New York City as case study for what could happen if family policing ends.

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