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Two covers and 15 years: How a portrait of Nancy Pelosi brought my career full circle

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Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi explains the view toward the U.S. Capitol from her office to photographer Mike Nelson at the Longworth House Office Building in Washington, D.C., on July 23, 2026.

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November 17, 2011, was an unusually exciting day in my young career as a photography assistant. Working in a creative field meant I didn’t usually wear a button-down shirt and tie on the job, but that blustery autumn afternoon was different. I was at the U.S. Capitol in the large, ornate office of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Keep Reading →

'Strange Fruit' in 2026: Why LGBTQ+ people cannot look away from racial terror

Portrait of Billie Holiday, Downbeat, New York, N.Y., ca. Feb. 1947. (Colorised black and white print).

Billie Holiday, whose 1939 recording of “Strange Fruit” became a powerful protest against the lynching of Black Americans, performs in New York circa 1947.

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In 1937, Abel Meeropol, a Jewish high school teacher from the Bronx, saw a photograph he could not shake. The image showed Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith hanging from a tree after they had been lynched in Marion, Indiana. Haunted by what he saw, Meeropol wrote "Strange Fruit." Two years later, Billie Holiday transformed it into one of the most devastating protest songs ever recorded. Keep Reading →

Rosie O’Donnell got into Donald Trump’s orange head on Kimmel: ‘I know you're watching’

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Rosie O'Donnell taunted Donald Trump on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, saying "hi, I know you're watching."

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Two washed-up NBA players are using trans people as punchlines in a pathetic political stunt

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Royce White and Enes Kanter Freedom are claiming to identify as women for the purposes of basketball.

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Two failed NBA players have found a new way to make a mockery of transgender people, and they’re using women’s professional basketball to do it. And just like every other attempt to delegitimize trans human beings, it will fail. Keep Reading →

The fight for trans athletes isn't about fairness. It's about who gets to belong

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Transgender high school athlete AB Hernandez competes in the girls' long jump during the 58th Arcadia Invitational in Arcadia, California, on April 11, 2026. This opinion essay argues that the political campaign targeting transgender athletes extends beyond sports.

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A young Rose Montoya was put in T-ball and basketball because of the gender she was assigned at birth. Her teammates were boys who spent more time bullying her than passing her the ball. Her real friends were the girls who let her play dress up. Most days, the boys made it clear she didn't belong with them. So she got pushed into solo sports instead, and she missed out on the things sports are supposed to teach kids: teamwork, confidence, belonging. Keep Reading →
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