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Now almost a half-century old, Roe v Wade (1973) is a Supreme Court case famous too many and infamous to most of the rest. In 1970, Jane Roe (a fictional name to protect the identity of the individual) sued the district attorney of her residential state of Texas and...

What Ketanji Brown Jacksons's Supreme Court seat means in history One hundred and fifteen justices have served on the Supreme Court, 108 of those 115 justices-that is ninety-four percent-have been white men. In the court's 233-year history, there have been five female...

What it means to navigate a "post-truth" world "What is a woman?" "I don't know, I'm not a biologist."  This is the scene that played out between Senator Marsha Blackburn and Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson. Judge Jackson's response -- "I don't know, I'm...

Human trafficking and its global impact 50% of US trafficking victims are girls under the age of 18 Girls as young as 5 are trafficked into sexual slavery -- sometimes sold by their own economically-vulnerable mothers and fathers According to The International Labour...