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TRANS RIGHTS POST-SOTU: TEXAS COURT, HHS AND ADVOCATES RESPOND

by Jenny Huh | Mar 3, 2022 | Featured, Living, State of the Union

WASHINGTON – A day after President Biden’s State of the Union, a Texas judge issued a temporary restraining order, blocking the state’s Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) from investigating two parents for providing gender-affirming health care to...

More government-to-government dialogue needed to help human rights conditions in Southeast Asia

by Yunita Ong | Mar 2, 2015 | Politics

WASHINGTON – When Binh T. Nguyen was younger, her father was killed in a re-education camp in communist-era Vietnam. Now as director of Human Rights for Vietnam PAC, Nguyen feels a strong obligation to advance the rights of fellow Southeast Asians. Nguyen is part of a...

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STATE OF THE UNION 2018

Medill on the Hill teamed up with Northwestern News Network in Evanston to produce a package of stories covering President Barack Obama's seventh and final State of the Union address. The two newsrooms collaborated across time zones to produce a three-hour broadcast and more than a dozen print and digital reports. Check out our broadcast here.

CYBERSECURITY

In a series of investigative reports, Medill on the Hill reporters uncovered threats to privacy and security in the digital age ranging from the safety of your online campaign donations to how computer hacking could impact food safety.