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Kai-Fu Lee • AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

Broken Bones: America’s Violent Indifference toward Women

there was no corresponding story about Angie or Andrea, who also took on the cases no one else wanted to take. Nor was there a follow-up piece on the many survivors who had willingly laid out the most horrific thing they’d ever endured, just to keep other children safe. It was yet another example of rape culture at work.

Rachael Denhollander • What Is a Girl Worth?: My Story of Breaking the Silence and Exposing the Truth about Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics

We have an abundance of rape and violence against women in this country and on this Earth, though it’s almost never treated as a civil rights or human rights issue, or a crisis, or even a pattern. Violence doesn’t have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.

Rebecca Solnit • Men Explain Things to Me

You’ve heard about the Middle East. But did you know about forced sterilizations in Greenland? Women’s oppression isn’t a geography game—it’s a global issue.

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Among those cases, the number of victims who were misgendered in their own obituaries is greater than the number of victims whose murderer has been identified.

Torrey Peters • Detransition, Baby: A Novel

The women the N.D.W.A. represents are diverse and scattered. There are more than two million domestic workers in the United States, most women of color and immigrants. They are housecleaners, nannies and health aides working in private homes, a majority making less than $13 an hour. It’s a work force that is extremely heterogeneous, largely invisib... See more

Alyssa Rosenberg • The New Labor Movement Fighting for Domestic Workers’ Rights (Published 2019)

Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S.

Hannah Dreier Photographs By Kirsten Luce nytimes.com

But all women should have free access to school, for as long as studying is a commodity we have to pay for, or a step in the “job hunt,” our relation to intellectual work cannot be a liberating experience.