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Today at Ms. | March 15, 2023 |
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With Today at Ms.—a daily newsletter from the team here at Ms. magazine—our top stories are delivered straight to your inbox every afternoon, so you’ll be informed and ready to fight back. |
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Leah Martin (right) speaks to a resident on the upcoming vote on a ballot initiative on Amendment 2 while volunteering with Protect Kentucky Access in Lexington, Ky., on Oct. 1, 2022. The 2022 election season saw six ballot measures on abortion across the U.S.—and in all of them, the pro-abortion rights position passed decisively. (Stefani Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images) |
BY JESSIE HILL | Many legislators are in hot pursuit of tweaking, if not fully rescinding, ballot initiative processes because they want to stop the people from enshrining the right to abortion back into law.
(Click here to read more) |
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Madar Mee, 10, left, and Emma Diaz, 7, right, sell Girl Scout cookies on Feb. 11, 2022, in Los Angeles. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) |
BY SIMONE MCGRAW | In an effort to squeeze profits from cookie sales, the Girl Scouts national headquarters has opted for cheap ingredients, cheap packaging and cheap prizes to incentivize sales. The real cost of these decisions comes at a high price—and in the end, we will all pay for the environmental damages.
The unsustainable choices of today’s Cookie Program undermine the purpose of a beloved, long-standing American custom. (Click here to read more) |
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BY JESSICA STITES | As young adult fiction gains mainstream appeal and takes its awesome girl protagonists with it, we need to make sure that kick-ass action girls or vampire heroines don’t create new boxes to stuff girls into.
(This article originally appeared in the Fall 2010 issue of Ms.) (Click here to read more) |
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