Who’s Silencing Whom on University Campuses? | The Case for Canceling Party Primaries; Remembering Jeannette Rankin, the First Woman Elected to Congress | The Power of State Courts in Securing Abortion Access: “It’s Time to Give Them Center Stage”
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Who’s Silencing Whom on University Campuses?

 

 

BY JENNIFER RUTH | Right-wing outlets—and sometimes mainstream ones, too—tell us that individual professors are being silenced by a “woke orthodoxy” that is overtaking college campuses.

From where I sit at a state university in the Pacific Northwest, this is incredibly ironic. My experience has been precisely the opposite: The faculty loudly decrying their victimhood are the ones who succeed in silencing the rest of us. 

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Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation: The Case for Canceling Party Primaries; Remembering Jeannette Rankin, the First Woman Elected to Congress

BY CYNTHIA RICHIE TERRELL | Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation.

This week: Remembering Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to U.S. Congress; how can the Republican Party recruit more women candidates?; election highlights for women, including the women elected to the NYC Council; the case for canceling party primaries; and more.
 
 
 
 
The Power of State Courts in Securing Abortion Access: “It’s Time to Give Them Center Stage”

BY ALICIA BANNON | Progressives are giving new attention to reforming the Supreme Court—but it would be a mistake to stop there. We also need to pay greater attention to state courts and state constitutions as a promising, underappreciated and frequently threatened venue for protecting rights. 

Of course, courts can’t be the only path to achieving reproductive justice—but we won’t have reproductive justice without them.

(Click here to read more from our special series in collaboration with the Brennan Center: "Abortion is Essential to Democracy")

 
 
 
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