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What the Marriage Equality Backlash Taught Me About the Fight for Trans Rights Jul. 08, 2025
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court ruled that excluding same-sex couples from civil marriage was un... Read More
Florida Women, It's Time To Get Our IUDs Nov. 09, 2024
The first thing I did Wednesday was think, well, punk music is poised to have a big comeback. Shortl... Read More
Why the Fight for Trans Rights Never Gets Easier -- or Less Vital Oct. 15, 2024
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
In the spring of 1999, young people across the country began to prepare for that singular teenage ri... Read More
My Husband Won't Respect My Privacy Oct. 05, 2024
Dear Annie: I have had a few health issues recently. During tests, my doctor incidentally found a ma... Read More
A Night in Understaffed America Oct. 04, 2024
I haven't been in any kind of medical facility that wasn't understaffed by at least 20%, not for 15 ... Read More
AI Is Coming for Your Job? Feb. 07, 2024
The media warn, "Artificial intelligence will replace millions of jobs." In San Francisco, Teamster... Read More
Government Agencies Shouldn't Be Allowed To Destroy Their Paper Trail of Medical Abuse and Neglect Jan. 15, 2024
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
Last year, Anadith Reyes Alvarez, a medically vulnerable 8-year-old girl, died in Customs and Border... Read More
Free Health Insurance For Migrants Is Lunacy Jan. 03, 2024
Across the globe, millions of people are on the move, defying borders and violating laws to escape p... Read More
Social Security Rules: Same Ol', Same Ol' Nov. 29, 2023
Several times every week, someone makes a comment similar to this one that I found in my inbox today... Read More
New Medical Terms to Learn, and Too Much Jargon Oct. 13, 2023
A recent Forbes post by Dr. Sachin H. Jain caught my eye. It was about jargon, those often head-scra... Read More
Rumor Mill Misleads Vets and Prisoners Oct. 11, 2023
There are so gosh darn many myths and rumors circulating out there (mostly online) about Social Secu... Read More
Don't Know Much About Medicare Oct. 04, 2023
I just got my annual Medicare guidebook called "Medicare and You 2024" in the mail. I'm assuming thi... Read More
What to Do When Someone Dies Sep. 13, 2023
Q: I know you've written columns about how to handle Social Security affairs after someone dies. In ... Read More
Horse Sense Sep. 13, 2023
A new study reports that adolescents who are inpatients at opioid addiction treatment centers are mo... Read More
Seeking to Set Boundaries in the Workplace Sep. 09, 2023
Dear Annie: I have an employee who is constantly overbearing and frequently steps out of line in reg... Read More
Anti-Choice Texas Traps Women Within Its Borders. Some in Missouri Would Follow Suit. Sep. 06, 2023
To assess what America's increasingly radicalized movement against abortion rights is plotting next ... Read More
Disability Myths Aug. 30, 2023
There are so many misconceptions about the Social Security disability program. I've written a book c... Read More
Define 'Healthy' May. 31, 2023
Last fall, the Food and Drug Administration published new guidelines about which foods could be labe... Read More
It's Hard To Be a Teen Girl These Days May. 10, 2023
New data suggests teen girls in American are being swept up in a wave of sadness and trauma, reports... Read More
Shady Side of the Heat May. 03, 2023
Climate change has resulted in more extreme weather, including hotter, longer heat waves, which in t... Read More
