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BY NATALIE SCHREYER | Barring a last-minute intervention, on Tuesday, Lisa Montgomery could become the first woman to be executed by the government in 68 years. “The structures of our society failed Lisa,” says her attorney Kelley Henry.

BY MONA LENA KROOK | "Among the many dramatic images emerging from the Jan. 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol, two in particular stand out to me as a scholar of gender and politics: a photo of Richard 'Bigo' Barnett with his feet up on a desk in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office, and a picture of Adam Johnson smiling and waving in the Capitol rotunda with the Speaker’s lectern tucked under his arm."

BY NICOLE GUIDOTTI-HERNÁNDEZ | "On the same day we celebrated the monumental unseating of white wealth and supremacy with Warnock and Ossoff’s wins in the morning of Jan. 6. 2021, all hell broke loose in the nation’s capital at 2 p.m. ... We can celebrate Warnock and Ossoff’s victories at the same time that we hold accountable those who want to destroy the equality feminists and women of color have worked towards for centuries."