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Nearly one in four trans people in the U.S. use Medicaid to access gender-affirming care. Nearly one in four trans people in the U.S. is at risk of having this care taken away due to the eleventh-hour ...

Edwin Chavez of San Quentin News receiving an award for second place in local news coverage. Photo by Marcus Casillas, provided courtesy of the Pollen Initiative. In the brightly-lit auditorium of ...

Anti-ICE messages line the fence of a house across the street from where ICE killed a peaceful observer on Jan. 7. Photo by Claire Carlson. Reporting from the New York Times on a scandal implicating ...

From left to right: An early Federal Communications Commission licensing card given to KDKA; early Radio Corporation of America speaker; Rufus P. Turner at his radio; excerpt of Kerner Commission’s ...

This story originally appeared in Molloy’s newsletter, The Present Age, and is republished here with permission. A new Media Matters report confirms what many of us have suspected for years: the right ...

A sign held up by a protestor at the 2017 Women’s March in New York. Narih Lee/Wikimedia Commons Get The Objective in your inbox every week. For the past six months, Jane* has maintained a regular ...

In 2020, newsrooms local and national — from the Kansas City Star to the Los Angeles Times and NPR — issued apologies for past racist coverage and pledged to commit themselves to more equitable ...

In late January, the Washington D.C. Court of Appeals moved to reinstate Felicia Sonmez’s lawsuit against the Washington Post, finding some merit to Sonmez’s claims that the paper illegally ...

Graphics courtesy of The Disabled Project and The Trans Law Center. Get The Objective in your inbox every week. But policies focused on eliminating people viewed as “less fit” aren’t just limited to ...

A protester holds up a sign at a dance protest celebrating trans youth at the White House in 2017. Ted Eytan/Creative Commons. Get The Objective in your inbox every week. How did the New York Times ...

In their April 29, 2024 issue, The Mercury’s previous editorial board published their goodbyes to the paper and to the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). In their final issue, the outgoing managing ...