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Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on Nov. 29, 2022. Baldwin was the first openly LGBTQ member in the U.S. Senate. (Drew Angerer / Getty Images)

BY CLIO MORRISON | In a ceremony at the White House Tuesday afternoon, President Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act into law, officially protecting same-sex and interracial marriage rights. 

“Love is love. Right is right. Justice is justice. … Marriage is a simple proposition. Who do you love? And will you be loyal to that person you love?” the president asked from the South Lawn. “It’s not more complicated than that.”

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A protester holds a poster with an image of Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes, during a rally against the killing of George Floyd at Foley Square on May 29, 2020, in New York City. (Kevin Mazur / Getty Images)

BY LAURA L. LOVETT | Pioneering feminist Dorothy Pitman Hughes died on Dec. 1, 2022, at the age of 84. Hughes became an icon of the women’s movement when Esquire published an image of her and Gloria Steinem in 1971 standing side by side with fists raised. That image has since been recreated, reinterpreted and reproduced on everything from mugs to T-shirts. A copy even hangs in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. 

Dorothy Pitman Hughes’ life of activism, however, transcended this image.

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Guests attend a pop-up food bank on Nov. 19, 2022, in Brooklyn, N.Y. (Michael Loccisano / Getty Images for Food Bank For New York City)

BY ABBY J. LEIBMAN | In communities across America, the holidays inspire food drives, meals served to the unhoused and donations to food pantries. But by enacting a broad and thoughtful national strategy to end hunger, we can envision a future where the season’s holidays no longer require a tradition of well-meaning interventions by an overwhelmed charitable sector.

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Before Roe v. Wade, if you were in need of an abortion in Chicago, there was a number you could call, run by young women who called themselves Jane. They’d provide abortions to women who had nowhere else to turn. It was started by Heather Booth when she was 19 years old. In this episode, Booth joins Dr. Goodwin to discuss the history of the Jane Collective and the connections between our pre-Roe past and post-Roe future. Where do we go from here?

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