In 2016, Utah passed a law requiring fetuses beyond 20 weeks—the gestational point that Republican legislators…
Stassa Edwards
sbedwards
Features editor. Writing at the intersection of women's health, politics, and history. Work at Lapham's Quarterly, Aeon, The Awl, Self, and Cabinet. Writing a book about hysteria.
Now playing
Since the November election of Donald Trump, the question “How did we get here?” has bounced around the internet and…
Now playing
Thursday’s press conference was intended to serve as a vehicle for Donald Trump to introduce Alexander Acosta, his…
The narrator of Katie Kitamura’s novel A Separation has a secret. After five years of marriage, the unnamed narrator…
“How can I show you the hole in my heart? How do I write about the death of my son?” Sybrina Fulton opens her book, R…
Hello. It’s only Tuesday and yet it feels like it should be a Friday in 2018.
“Get used to it,” Donald Trump’s counselor Kellyanne Conway tweeted in the middle of the chaos created by a…
Senate Democrats Monday announced that they will hold an all-night debate, which The Hill is describing as a “talkath…
Now playing
It’s only been two weeks—two long, excruciating, chaotic weeks—since the Trump presidency became an undeniable…
Johanne Rahaman is used to being invisible. Before she was a resident, and finally a citizen of the United States,…
At The Atlantic, Moira Weigel has a thoughtful essay about the heartbeat bills and the politics of the ultrasounds.…
Now playing
A few hours after the inauguration of President Donald Trump, a photograph circulated of Melania Trump sitting next…
Now playing
WASHINGTON, DC — After the 21-gun salute echoed past the Capitol, it started to rain. The guns, fired after Donald…
A story today in the New York Times ponders the question of whether or not a woman can be both a feminist and a…
Now playing
A national version of the Heartbeat Bill, a bill that would effectively ban abortion at roughly six weeks of…
According to a report from Politico, the ex-wife of Andy Puzder, Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as labor secretary,…
Now playing
During Jeff Sessions’s confirmation hearing for Attorney General, Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from…
This is how sympathetic columnists have characterized questions regarding the ethnic heritage of Canadian writer…
Last week, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Threshold Editions, the conservative imprint of publishing giant…