Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.[1] – Horace Mann When the great educational reformer Horace Mann wrote these words, he echoed an…
When the United States federal government needed women’s labor during World War II, it publicly funded childcare upon the assertion, “[y]ou cannot have a contented mother working . . . if she is worrying about her children.”[1] Currently, in 2025…
Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (“VRA”) prohibits voting practices or procedures that discriminate on the basis of race, color, or membership in one of the specified minority groups.[1] Although the Supreme Court has continuously narrowed…
On October 31, 2025, the same day two federal judges ordered the Trump Administration to stop withholding Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Payments (SNAP), formerly food stamps, from the 42 million Americans who rely on it,[1] the United States Department…
History does not exactly repeat itself, but the present often gets its cue from the past. See if this sounds familiar: utility bills on the rise with no end in sight, electricity being syphoned off and prioritized in select areas of the grid, and access…
Perhaps the cruelest inflictions associated with being poor in the United States today is having to face housing instability or even homelessness. This is naturally driven by systemic issues in the lack of decent and affordable housing, spurred on by…
In the novel Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett, Watch Captain Sam Vimes wears boots so thin that he can tell where he is in the city by the feel of the cobblestones.[1] He muses that a good pair of boots would cost him fifty dollars and last ten years, but…
The One Big Beautiful Bill, which passed in the House of Representatives last week, has rightfully drawn strong criticism for its cruel provisions that threaten to remove over 10 million people from Medicaid and cut hundreds of billions in nutritional…
Landlords are increasingly using automated screening programs to evaluate prospective tenants, raising troubling concerns about how these programs’ algorithmic biases discriminate against people of color and hinder their ability to access housing. Tenant…
I recently spoke with Kathryn Menefee, an attorney at the National Women’s Law Center (“NWLC”) and a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center. NWLC plays a pivotal role in promoting gender equality. The NWLC was established in 1972 as a project…
