Few foresaw the direction that the Supreme Court would take the decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as PPACA or Obamacare. Immediately after the decision, public focus was still on the retention of the individual mandate. Though the Court’s change in the Medicaid expansion was unexpected, Health and Human Services [...]

A new law passed in Saudi Arabia will give women the right to vote without the approval of her male guardian (normally a father or husband). Saudi women only recently gained suffrage rights, and this recent legislation does away with the additional approval restrictions. The first election where women may vote without male guardian approval [...]

Despite the passing of laws forbidding organ sales, socioeconomically vulnerable people in the global south continue to sell parts of their body to survive. In 1994, India’s Parliament passed the Transplantation of Human Organs Act (THOA) to make organ sales illegal. Although superficially beneficial, the lived outcomes of this action were anything but advantageous. After [...]

The so-called “choices” that people make about movement– how they get to where they’re going, and whether they bike, walk, ride, or drive there– are never merely individual decisions. Rather, these decisions are often the result of how the cities we live in have been mapped and planned over time. Los Angeles, for example, is [...]

If you chose to have a child, and could have just one, what gender would you prefer? If we lived in an egalitarian and gender positive society, we would expect the answers to this question to be generally equal, with maybe 50% of respondents choosing a boy and the other 50% choosing a girl. But [...]

While the title of the report Separate But Equal: A Winning Policy for Women in Transit remains problematic, the idea presented by its author emerges as uniquely relevant in two ways:   1) Women worldwide continually struggle to find safe, comfortable, and secure means of transit  for the global networks of transport on which our [...]