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BY SHEFALI LUTHRA, MARIEL PADILLA & BARBARA RODRIGUEZ | For women in academia, a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed about future First Lady Dr. Jill Biden's title struck a nerve. Empirical research shows women have their credentials questioned in ways that men do not. 

BY VANITA GUPTA & GARY D. BASS | An accurate census count ensures that every person in the U.S. is fairly represented. The Trump administration spent their years in office attempting to undermine the 2020 count, falsely constructing a whiter portrait of America.

BY AVIVA DOVE-VIEBAHN | Feminist film critic Dove-Viebahn offers her take on the new holiday film Happiest Season: "We deserve nice things. And when I say 'we,' I don’t just mean middle-class white women masquerading as universal symbols of lesbian love. I mean all of us, even the biracial kids who surely want more than to be plot devices in someone else’s story."