Education

Trump Signs Executive Order to Dismantle the Department of Education: Here’s What’s at Stake

| March 24th, 2025

The Trump administration’s latest target is the U.S. Department of Education. Through a new executive order, the administration has taken the first formal steps toward dismantling the agency entirely, a long-standing goal of the American far right. On paper, this is about “reducing federal overreach.” In reality, it’s about stripping away the federal government’s role in […]

Reproductive Rights

President Biden issues new Executive Order on access to contraceptives

| June 26th, 2023

Photo by Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition on Unsplash On Friday, President Biden issued an Executive Order demanding strengthened access to affordable contraceptives and family planning services. This is the President’s first executive order which centers on contraceptives and his third on reproductive health care. His two previous Executive Orders focused on securing access to reproductive […]

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Trump Aims to Ban Birthright Citizenship

| October 30th, 2018

In an interview scheduled to be released Sunday, President Trump announces that he will sign an executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship in the United States, a process in which any person born on U.S. soil, regardless of their parents’ citizenship status, is a U.S. citizen. However, this executive order would directly conflict with […]

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Sanctuary Cities Saved by Federal Judge

| April 26th, 2017

On Tuesday a District Court judge in San Francisco temporarily blocked President Trump’s January executive order threatening to pull federal funding from sanctuary cities who do not comply with the administration’s mass deportation efforts.