Ray Levy-Uyeda

When she was 18, Abby Finkenauer was hospitalized for four days due to a severe pain in her abdomen. Doctors performed a laparoscopy, making several small cuts into the abdomen so they could insert a camera to view her reproductive organs. After…

Earlier this month, the House of Representatives passed the HEROES Act, legislation that will provide financial aid to states, some industries, and notably, those with student debt. The bill, which is fully dubbed the Health and Economic Recovery…

Starting in November of this year, abortion providers in Oklahoma can be sued for "coercion." Last week, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) signed into law the Unborn Person Wrongful Death Act, which will allow a patient or family member of a patient to…

A video of a white police officer digging his knee into the neck of a Black man in Minneapolis, apparently suffocating him, circulated on social media Tuesday morning. The FBI is investigating the death in conjunction with the Minnesota Bureau of…

A Montana judge blocked a law this week that would have prevented Native Americans living on reservations in the state from casting their ballots in the primary election on June 2. The judge's ruling, called a temporary restraining order, halts the…

Last year, President Trump told the country that he was going to procure citizenship data of U.S. residents one way or another. Now, it seems his promise is coming to fruition. Instead of asking a citizenship question outright on the 2020 census,…

In 1793, John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail that the vice presidency was "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived." Daniel Webster, who served as secretary of state, was offered the…

Exclusive police video obtained by The Guardian shows that Ahmaud Arbery, the Black man who was shot and killed in Georgia by two white men while out for a run, had previously had a heated encounter with police. Arbery was killed in February, but…

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to weigh heavily on state budgets, state leaders are working to reappropriate funds as they try to deal with the massive loss of revenue. In California, though, money woes have indirectly delivered a win for…

South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham has held state-wide office since 2003, and over the past 17 years he's amassed quite a few critics, especially since his turn to becoming one of President Trump's staunchest defenders. That's why a group…

Sanitation workers in New Orleans are entering their second week of striking for personal protective equipment, higher wages, and safer working conditions. Even before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, "hoppers" who are responsible for…

Efrain Tovar has already gone through what he calls a "grieving process" — mourning the loss of his classroom, his students, the in-person student-teacher relationships he's carefully nurtured. Tovar, a middle school teacher in California's Central…

As the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. forces state and local governments to extend shelter-in-place orders, re-evaluate civil rights for those detained in jails and immigration centers, and postpone primary elections, thousands of Americans are…

When college students return to campuses in the fall, things may look a bit different than they remember. Maybe their favorite coffee shop in town will no longer be available for late-night study sessions, or perhaps there will be fewer on-campus…

The largest relief package ever approved by Congress, the CARES Act, offered $2 trillion in unemployment benefits, funding for hospitals, bailouts for industries, and a fund (that has already run dry) for small business loans. The relief package…

On Feb. 23, a 25-year-old Georgia resident named Ahmaud Arbery went running through a suburban neighborhood and didn't return home. Arbery, a Black man, was stalked by two white men, a father and son who believed the young man to be connected with…

Phone banking alone, and from home, is largely what political organizing will look like as long as coronavirus has a strangehold on American life. It's a fate that doesn't intimidate, but rather excites grassroots organizers with Mijente, a…

Nearly 80% of the Los Angeles Unified School District's half a million students are considered "economically disadvantaged," the type of student for whom school can be quite literally a lifeline. But the coronavirus pandemic has upended the LAUSD…

If the executive branch won't take responsibility for procuring essential masks and other personal protective equipment, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) have a plan to make it happen. The lawmakers teamed up on a…