In the aftermath of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Americans woke up to the terrifying potential for social media to be harnessed by foreign powers to interfere with our domestic politics. A 2018 indictment brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller detailed the ways in which Russian interests manipulated Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram to rally support behind hashtags like #Hillary4Prison, #IWontProtectHillary and, at the other end of the spectrum, #MAGA and #Trump2016.

‘I saw myself in a book and that will never leave me.’ Bright April by Marguerite de Angeli was how I first learned about library fines. I was an 8-year-old girl going to P.S. 96 in Queens, and there was a storefront branch right across the street. I don’t remember who put that book in my hand, but somebody knew that a little girl who was brown and had pigtails needed a book that reflected her.

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On May 6th, the Department of Education released a long-anticipated set of regulations on how schools—and universities in particular—manage sexual misconduct. This interpretation of Title IX not only places new barriers in the way of survivors coming forward, but, for most victims, eliminates the possibility altogether. At the most basic level, the Trump administration’s new rule will make it harder than ever for survivors to understand their legal rights—and if survivors can’t understand their rights, it’s very unlikely that they will use them.

July 21, 2016 11:59 PM EDT Donald Trump has once again creeped out the Internet, this time with a “so inappropriate” embrace of his daughter Ivanka. The 34-year-old businesswoman and former model — Trump’s daughter with his Czech-born first wife Ivana — delivered a speech a the Republican National Convention at Cleveland’s Quicken Loans Arena on Thursday night. The questionable touching occurred when the Republican nominee for November’s presidential election greeted his daughter on stage.