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BY ROXY SZAL | “Our representative democracy is supposed to represent us,” urges a joint letter from a coalition of feminist leaders—part of a recent push to convince California Gov. Gavin Newsom to appoint another Black woman to Vice President-Elect Harris’s open Senate seat. 

BY REBECCA TURKINGTON & MELANNE VERVEER | On this Human Rights Day, Verveer and Turkington write that if we hope to achieve the goals set out for women and girls in the Beijing Platform 25 years ago, it will require a renewed commitment to gender equality in American foreign policy. 

BY SOPHIE DORF-KAMIENNY | Meet Cecilia Rouse — the next chair of the Council of Economic Advisers for the Biden administration. Rouse will be the first African American and fourth woman to fill the role since the Council was established 74 years ago.