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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who passed away on Friday, was famous for both her decisions and dissents which notoriously defended gender equality and LGBTQ+ rights, including voting in favor of same-sex marriage in 2015.

“The fiercest of fighters”: Northwestern professors remember Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

September 23, 2020

Supreme Court Justice and American political icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Friday, leaving behind a rich mark on the fight for gender equality and civil rights in U.S. courts. Her death came roughly six...

PERIOD at Northwestern’s online petition advocating for free menstrual products in Illinois homeless shelters. At the time of publishing, the petition had over 500 signatures.

Desi-American women fight period stigma during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

May 25, 2020

Meghna Gaddam, Samanvi Kanugula and Mahie Gopalka are the three Desi-American women behind PERIOD at Northwestern fighting for an end to period stigma in their culture and the state of Illinois. The...

Kessel: Fear and Lying in the White House

Kessel: Fear and Lying in the White House

May 14, 2020

While the rest of us tried to find movies on Netflix we hadn’t seen yet or started re-watching “BoJack Horseman” or “Mad Men,” President Donald Trump entertained himself by tweeting “Obamagate”...

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos at a briefing on the coronavirus pandemic in the press briefing room of the White House on March 26, 2020. The Department of Education announced today new rules regarding Title IX on college campuses.

Education Department strengthens rights of students accused of sexual assault

May 6, 2020

New rules from the Department of Education narrow the definition of sexual assault and make on-campus investigations into sexual assault look more like court hearings than they previously had, giving more...

Kessel: Liberty in the Age of Corona

Kessel: Liberty in the Age of Corona

April 20, 2020

On April 15, protesters in Michigan railed against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home executive order. Spurred by right-wing media goliaths like Tucker Carlson and Rush Limbaugh, demonstrators took...

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