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By Hillary Nappi |When the archdiocese of New York announced plans to raise at least $300 million toward a potential global settlement with childhood sexual abuse survivors, headlines framed it as progress. For those living with the trauma, it landed as a mix of relief, anger, exhaustion and deep skepticism shaped by decades of abuse of power, institutional denial and calculated delay. 

The story isn’t the dollar amount; it’s the decades survivors have waited for justice. They had to fight just to be heard by the very institution that failed to protect them and now must watch that same institution frame overdue negotiations as moral penance. 

Any willingness by the church to engage in meaningful talks is better than silence, but this moment should not be mistaken for accountability. It signals the start of a process survivors should never have had to force through legislation, litigation and relentless public pressure. 

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By Katie Usalis | At the Reykjavík Global Forum on Women Leaders in Iceland, women political leaders gathered with warmth and purpose to confront the most pressing challenges of our time.

We talked about democracy, leadership, activism and power-building. We talked about fear. About childcare. About boys who aren’t sure where they fit in this “new” world. About deadlines and death threats, ranked-choice voting—and the deeper reasons why they keep doing this work despite the challenges.

Amid those conversations, three interviews in particular stayed with me: Liz Berry, a Washington state representative who campaigned with a 6-week-old baby; Eliza Reid, Iceland’s former first lady and author of Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland’s Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World; and Alison Comyn, an Irish journalist-turned-senator from a country that’s used proportional representation—a form of ranked-choice voting—for generations.

Taken together, their stories sketch a kind of roadmap: how we change the rules, how we change ourselves and how we do this work together. They also leave us with a question: Could my city, state or party pilot a system where “every vote counts,” and more than two parties can breathe? And, if so, how can I help make that change a reality?

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By Michele Goodwin | Barely two weeks apart, two American citizens have been slain in Minnesota by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the Twin Cities, raising important questions not just about the violation of First Amendment freedoms, but also the trampling of Eighth Amendment protections that bar the government from inflicting “cruel and unusual punishment.”

The killings of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Jeffrey Pretti are so horrendous and brazen—not hidden, but flaunted in front of cameras—that they evoke historical parallels to lynching and vigilante public execution. Yet unlike America’s lynchings of the past, here the bystanders and protesters are traumatized, not gawking with satisfaction, but left fearful, shaken and grieving.

As if torn from the pages of a family violence casebook, ICE’s conduct in Minnesota now displays the hallmarks of domestic abuse—behavior used to gain or maintain power and control, paired with physical and emotional threats. Minnesotans are now afraid in their own homes, on their front lawns and in their cars—even as they try to protect their neighbors. This is modern-day domestic violence, not between partners, but wielded by the federal government through unlawful and unconstitutional force.

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