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‘Hey, you promised lower gas prices. You promised the economy would be better.” Christian conservative influencer Savanna Faith Stone...is one of a flurry of influencers who flocked to San Antonio to gather under a bevy of bright pink lights at Turning Point USA’s Women’s Leadership Summit. “It’s harder than ever for a young couple to be able to buy a home." “I cannot express to you the level of alarm bells that should be ringing for the GOP,” conservative influencer Alex Clark told POLITICO. "Young women are looking at everything from the ongoing war in Iran to the persistence of...

Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Az) has introduced the Reproductive Healthcare Leave Act, HR 8158. Ansari called it "part of my Healthy, Equity, Rights (HER) package. It covers pregnancy terminations, menstrual pain, miscarriages, menopause symptoms, endometriosis, IUD insertions, vasectomies, fertility treatments and biopsies. My bill has 28 co-sponsors." Ansari said "pain related to periods, in particular, is something that I have dealt with for many, many years. Women's pain, whether from periods, from endometriosis, from the number of reproductive healthcare issues that exist, is severely underfunded and under-researched and therefore we don't have many solutions." Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich), a co-sponsor of...

New York bill replaces ‘mother’ with ‘gestating parent’ in state lawA memo accompanying the legislation says the change is needed to align with standards for family court cases involving same-sex parents and surrogate parents.The New York state legislature passed a bill that replaces the words “mother” and “father” with “gestating parent” and “non-gestating parent” in child custody and parental laws.The gender-neutral terms, reminiscent of the dystopian fiction Brave New World, would be included in domestic and education law under the bill, according to the New York Post.“‘Paternity’ proceedings to determine a child’s biological father would meanwhile become ‘parentage’ cases,” the...

One of the WNBA’s most prominent voices wants her league to consider the place of women in America at the birth of the country before agreeing to wear a celebratory jersey patch. Aces forward Brianna Turner, the players association treasurer, balked at the idea that WNBA All-Stars should wear the “USA 250” patch on their jerseys that other professional sports leagues have adopted to celebrate America’s upcoming 250th birthday.

They are unapologetically in favor of abortion rights. They view gender as a tool of the patriarchy used to oppress women. And they have the ears of Republican lawmakers in Washington. Meet the Women’s Liberation Front, a self-described group of “radical feminists” who seek to abolish the societal construct of gender, believing it is a hierarchical caste system that upholds male supremacy and subjugates women. As opposed to more mainstream feminist organizations that accept biological men who identify as female, gender abolitionists such as WoLF believe in the material reality of sex and that men cannot become women simply because...

Texas state Rep. James Talarico, the Democrat running against Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate race, has referred to women as “neighbors with a uterus” on more than one occasion.

THE STRUGGLE to breastfeed is a defining feature of early motherhood for many women. Of the approximately 90% of mothers in rich countries who start breastfeeding, a quarter give up within a few weeks, often because they fear they are not producing enough milk to feed their babies. For many years doctors have assumed that true cases of poor supply are rare, occurring in no more than 5% of mothers. The prevailing advice to worried parents from health authorities in places such as England and America has, therefore, been to stimulate the release of milk by either putting the baby...

Transgender athlete AB Hernandez advanced in three girls' jumping events, earning the top place in two, during the preliminary round of the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) state track & field championships on Friday. Hernandez, who has been at the center of a national controversy for competing in girls' competitions dating back to last May, will now contend for the state title in girls' long jump, high jump and triple jump on Saturday evening.

We let AI run a simulation to see what the first female—that means woman— president in the White House would be like. The simulated results are interesting and eye-opening.

The left’s glamorization of political violence begins as performance, but history shows how quickly chic nihilism can become something far darker. Brian Thompson’s shooter suspect in hostel CCTV. (security camera, Wikimedia Commons)On the morning of May 18, 2026, on the granite steps of Manhattan’s Criminal Courts Building, three chic women arranged themselves like starlets at Cannes. The heels. The practiced hip-thrust. Weight cocked to one side, chin down, eyes up. With enough mascara between them to repaint Gracie Mansion. But the most revealing part, the part that showed the most skin, was the laminated press credential blessed by the office...

Faith FactsAuthor Preston Sprinkle, raised in a complementarian tradition, re-examined Scripture regarding women in church leadershipSprinkle concluded that biblical arguments against women in leadership positions did not align with the full witness of ScriptureThe theologian discovered numerous examples of faithful, courageous women serving in significant roles throughout the BibleA well-known Christian author and theologian has sparked conversation in conservative Christian circles after publicly explaining his shift on the controversial topic of women in church leadership. Preston Sprinkle, who was raised in a church environment that taught complementarianism—the belief that leadership roles should be reserved for men—has shared his journey of...

The media has an odd term for the sullen young women who have made a sexual fetish of pretty-boy killer Luigi Mangione. They’re called Luigi Fangirls. It evokes a frolic, young women skipping down the street, singing, holding hands. You know, “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.” But I much prefer another name, a more direct name: Witches. I’m told that witches are supposedly fictional, a phobia created by men, by the patriarchy, to impose our evil will upon women who cling to stories like “The Handmaid’s Tale,” to justify generations of their cruelties upon boys, from wholesale abortion to “gender...

The warning signs have been there for decades. Back in 1983, American author Barbara Ehrenreich wrote a powerful book — The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment — arguing that a male revolt was underway. Since the 1950s, she suggested, men had begun rebelling against the breadwinner ethic, inspired by Playboy culture, the counterculture and a desire for personal freedom. They were rejecting the cultural ideology that had shamed them into tying the knot and becoming a good provider, lest they be seen as immature, irresponsible and less than a real man.Ehrenreich understood that marriage was...

Many of us are mothers—or hope to be mothers one day. Some of us work outside of the home and then come home to our more important roles of being mothers and wives. Some of us devote our entire beings to our families as stay-at-home mothers. Regardless of our current situation, we care deeply about the health of our children and are increasingly skeptical of industrially-produced food and the harmful ingredients used in their production and to increase their shelf life. We’re crunchy (ish) conservative women in our late 20s, 30s, and early 40s. We know most people probably don’t...

It's a bit weird to think of dating or marriage as a market — but this is a newsletter that tries to make sense of the world through economics. And, like any market, shifts in supply and demand can reshape romantic outcomes in pretty profound ways. First, a dating story that illustrates this dynamic. Then we'll get to a fascinating new study that may help explain why getting married has become harder for many American women. But first, the story. If you haven't heard of him, Jack Antonoff is a musician and super-producer. He, for example, produced a slew of...

What if every U.S. state were a person you could meet on the street, in a diner, out in the wilderness, or behind a smoky grill? This coast-to-coast collection imagines exactly that—one woman for every state, each captured in a moment that reflects her home’s spirit, culture, quirks, and contradictions.

Executive summaryCNN published an investigation into online communities likened to an "online rape academy" that document and trade techniques for drugging and sexually assaulting partners, prompting widespread alarm and viral claims that "62 million men attended" the academy — a figure that has been misrepresented on social media [1] [2]. Fact-checkers clarified that the 62 million number cited by CNN represented total visits to a pornographic website in a single month, not the number of users enrolled in or explicitly participating in the abusive chats [2] [3]. 1. What CNN actually reported CNN's As Equals series described months of reporting...

When a new book dismisses abortion survivors and women whose abortions don’t go as planned as ‘social contagion,’ it doesn’t just misread a movement—it erases our lived reality—talk about a wrong and bad idea about women! In her new book, Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History of Bad Ideas About Women, Sarah Ruden devotes part of her final chapter to me and to The Abortion Survivors Network by name. I should be flattered, I guess. (Hat tip to Katelyn Walls Shelton for sharing this chapter with me. If you aren’t following Katelyn yet, head over to her Substack for great content...

After more than a decade of global consultation, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) – a condition that affects one in eight women – has been renamed. The hormonal disorder, estimated to impact 170 million women worldwide, will now be known as polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS). The name change was published in the Lancet and announced at the European Congress of Endocrinology in Prague on Tuesday…The renaming was spearheaded by the endocrinologist Prof Helena Teede, the director of Melbourne’s Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation… The first thing Maddy Mavrikis was told by her GP when she was diagnosed with...

OLEDO, Ohio — The Toledo Police Department is looking to have 30% of its force be women by 2030. This is part of a national initiative called 30x30, which aims to change the underrepresentation of women in policing. The Ohio State Highway Patrol has also pledged to try and meet this goal. Including the academy, 109 out of 624 sworn officers in the department are women, making up roughly 17% of the force. This is 3% above the national average, according to the 30x30 Initiative, but the department is looking to grow this number. This isn't just to meet a...