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On July 25th, New Zealand passed a new law that would grant paid leave to domestic abuse survivors. The new legislation hopes to enact an economic incentive in workplaces to protect domestic abuse survivors.

Despite Civil Rights groups denouncing a proposed “Blue Lives Matter” bill, the Protect and Serve Act of 2018 has come one step closer to becoming a law. Late last week, the House of Representatives passed this bill with a total of 382 votes against a sparse 35 nays. Over the last two years, multiple bills […]

On May 14th, Israel killed more than 55 Palestinians and wounded an estimated 2,700 as the United States opened its embassy in Jerusalem. The protest took place as part of the Great March of Return, a weeks-long Palestinian campaign located on the Gaza strip ahead of the 70th Nakba anniversary, which marks the events of […]

According to Buzzfeed News a new bill entitled the Protect and Serve Act has been introduced to Congress that would mandate harsher penalties to people for injuring or attempting to injure police officers. The bill’s backers, which also include at least one Democratic congressman so far, say that the federal government needs to do something […]

An unlikely source of an argument for repealing an amendment came in the form of retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. The retired justice argued in the New York Times that the Parkland children who have become the faces of a new gun control movement weren’t going far enough. In his op-ed, Stevens establishes […]

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions inserted himself into the Senate’s affairs this week, sending Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley a letter calling The Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act “a grave error” that would “reduce sentences for a highly dangerous cohort of criminals.” The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 16-5 to advance the bill that would ease […]

by Andrew Keahey Awards season is never much of a shining time for creatives of color. It’s consistently a celebration of white achievement while Black excellence and other visionaries of color are routinely ignored in favor of the same tropes and story telling devices that we’re used to seeing year after year. These tropes become […]

The House and Senate voted on Monday to temporarily resume normal government operation, effectively ending the shutdown that had been in effect since Saturday. Democrats and Republicans decided had been at a standstill over immigration policy. The legislation being advanced by the Senate’s 81-18 vote allows government funding for at least the next three weeks, […]

Over 300 of the most powerful women in Hollywood have released a plan called Time’s Up that will hopefully help resolve a longstanding issue in the American workplace. Included in this initiative is a thirteen million dollar legal defense fund set up to help workers in less privileged occupations such as janitors, nurses, and workers […]

According to a Gallup poll released last week, a majority of Republicans are in favor of the legalization of marijuana for the first time on record. According to the poll, 51% of Republicans polled think that marijuana should be legal. This is likely due to the increasing public popularity of legalizing marijuana and many successes […]

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) has introduced a bill to Congress that would be an uphill battle under any administration, not considering the current one. Booker’s bill would legalize marijuana on a federal level and work to undo the decades of harm and wasted funds spent on the war on drugs in the U.S. 

We’re in a weird political moment. In the past two weeks, three senior Trump administrative officials have left their posts and Anthony Scaramucci, the newly appointed (and swiftly fired) White House communications director went on a profane rant about his White House colleagues.