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The World’s Oldest Profession
For the past decade, progressive discourse around sex work has revolved around which comprehensive national legal...
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May 2, 20233 min read


Overcorrected
After trying and failing to receive protection from staff, Keith DeBlasio was raped in prison multiple times by a fellow inmate. Although...
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May 2, 20234 min read


Jury’s in for Gwyneth, Jury’s Out On Cameras in Courtrooms
Despite advocates’ calls to reform the “broken criminal legal system,” it seems very much intact on screen. From Johnny Depp to Gwyneth...
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Apr 26, 20236 min read


Reimagining the Social Justice Nonprofit Ecosystem
In the weeks leading up to a big election, hundreds of unsolicited texts and calls from different political organizations inundate one’s...
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Apr 9, 20234 min read


Tied Up: Prison Sterilizations and One State’s Efforts to Make Amends
In 1883, Francis Galton coined the term “eugenics” to mean, “the study of agencies under social control that may improve or impair the...
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Apr 7, 20236 min read


Reimagining the Political Future of Sex Work: An Interview with Bella Robinson
Bella Robinson is the Executive Director of COYOTE-RI (“Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics”), the first sex workers’ rights organization in...
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Mar 18, 20235 min read


Decolonizing the United States: The Case for Overturning the Insular Cases
Over 3.5 million Americans currently live in the United States territories, a number that is roughly equivalent to the populations of the...
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Mar 14, 20236 min read


Hyding in Plain Sight
“I’m not going to be able to do anything more… this is my only option,” a single working-mother of three told a phone counselor at the...
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Feb 27, 20236 min read


DNA Deception
In 2016, a woman in San Francisco was subjected to the intrusive process of a rape kit after suffering from domestic violence and sexual...
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Jan 17, 20236 min read


Temporarily Protected, Permanently in Limbo
As the Russian invasion rages on in Ukraine, countries from around the world have come together to support refugees fleeing the country....
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Jan 15, 20235 min read


Rethinking Welfare: Why States Must Expand Benefits to Drug Felons
“The government says pull yourself up by your bootstraps and I’m trying to… I just keep getting knocked down over and over and over...
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Jan 9, 20234 min read


The Overrepresentation of Religion in the Courts, Congress, and the Classroom
The last Supreme Court session resulted in numerous 6-3 decisions in which the conversative majority consistently contradicted...
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Dec 13, 20225 min read


Redefining the Meaning of Comprehensive Sex Education
The precedent-defying Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Clinic has reignited a conversation about sex education policy....
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Dec 10, 20224 min read


Arrested Development: The Troubled Teen Industry and The United States’ Failure to Protect its Child
When Haley Hedrick was 16 years old, she was awoken one night to a nightmare scenario. Two strangers were standing in her bedroom,...
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Dec 3, 20225 min read


The Oxymoron of Child Marriage in the United States
In spring of this year, Tennessee legislators proposed a bill to create alternative legal pathways to marriage that left out an essential...
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Oct 31, 20224 min read


Beyoncé is Right: America Has a Problem, and it’s Monuments
On September 20, 2022 the Washington Monument was one of many recent “victims” of vandalism. That following Wednesday, the west side of...
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Oct 31, 20225 min read


Juvenile Criminal Justice: The Benefits of a more Lenient Youth Policy
President Biden’s recent move to pardon federal marijuana offenders has drawn attention to the punitive nature of the American criminal...
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Oct 26, 20227 min read
The Pursuit of Happiness: Homosexuality’s Deep Roots in America
June 24, 2022 may have been many things, but it was no surprise. Between the unprecedented leak of Alito’s draft opinion and the overt,...
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Oct 20, 20226 min read


Decrepit Democracy: The Wretched and the Damned
Last month, a project 50 years in the making near-reached completion, and there were tears of outrage and tears of joy. On May 2,...
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Jun 8, 20226 min read


The Dark History of Providence’s Water Supply
Strangers streamed into the milling villages within Scituate, Rhode Island in the summer of 1915. Arriving by train and in jet-black...
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May 9, 20225 min read
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