Belkin is chief national correspondent for Yahoo News, covering American social issues. An old-school journalist with decades of experience at the New York Times before joining Yahoo, she's speech giver, TV and radio opiner, phrase coiner ("opt-out revolution"), and parenting blogger (NYT Motherlode), she is also book writer, and her "Show Me a Hero" became a Golden Globe winning miniseries starring Oscar Isaac and Catherine Keener.
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'Barometer of despair': Birthrate falls as millennials fear climate apocalypse
The U.S. birthrate is currently at its lowest in 32 years, with 2018 being the fourth consecutive year of decline. Usually births increase at times of economic stability, so these latest numbers have led demographers to wonder what else is on prospective parents’ minds.
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Sanders recovering after heart surgery. Will his campaign?
The fact that 78-year-old Sen. Bernie Sanders had emergency heart surgery after a campaign event Tuesday leaves his campaign with two uncertain prognoses: one medical, the other political.
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As the public edges toward impeachment, will the GOP follow?
Virtually the entire Republican Party is in President Trump’s corner. But it’s good to remember that in the early days of Watergate it had seemed unlikely that Republican minds would change, either.
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Watergate-era Dem urges party to go after Trump on all fronts
Elizabeth Holtzman, a former member of the Judiciary Committee that voted to impeach President Richard Nixon, warned Democrats in charge of making the case against Donald Trump need to learn some lessons from the past.
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Pelosi, taking on a president, meets feminists' desire for a superhero
Women who study women agree that this week marks a moment.
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Julián Castro's plan to save the animals
“There is a special bond between people and animals,” says Julián Castro, the only presidential candidate with a specific plan addressing animal rights.
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To Biden, they're not 'Bernie' or 'Elizabeth' but 'my colleagues'
“Are you forgetting already what you said just two minutes ago?
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Parents of children with mental illness look at shooters and wonder, Could that be my child?
Every time Ruth K. hears of another act of violence committed by a young person, she is afraid for her 16-year-old daughter. She worries not only that the girl could be a victim, but also that her child could become the perpetrator.
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Mark Halperin’s book deal tests the boundaries of life after #MeToo
When it comes to #MeToo, a simple apology is not enough, Democratic strategist Karen Finney and others say. You need to get specific.
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In wake of ICE raids, devastated communities and broken families
The Mississippi raids may have been one of the most sweeping in ICE history, with 680 workers taken from seven plants around the state. But they were not the first.
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After a weekend filled with gunfire, fear is the new normal across America
There have been 255 mass shootings so far this year. Two of the deadliest took place just last weekend.
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Frightened by shootings, appalled at Trump, Americans are voting with their feet — to leave
If white-supremacist terrorists hope to drive immigrants out of the U.S., they are having the unintended effect of frightening some native citizens into emigrating.
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Gillibrand confronts Biden over his treatment of women — personally and politically
Gillibrand said Biden’s view was that encouraging women to work outside the home would lead to the “deterioration of the American family.”
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Buttigieg tells Republicans history will judge them harshly if they fail to stand up to Trump
At the Democratic presidential primary debate, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg looked directly at the camera and spoke to an unexpected audience
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DNA detectives: New tech can mean a diagnosis for your child, but not a lot of answers
Four-year-old Eli Kadkhoda is one of a handful of children with IRF2BPL-related condition, named after the gene to which it is linked. Its patients are all healthy at birth, stumbling and losing speech by kindergarten, wheelchair-dependent soon after.
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For 2020 Democrats, it's all Roe, no Wade
The volume and urgency of the abortion debate has varied over the years but is now as high as it’s ever been. With Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh shifting the court to the right, the votes exist for an overturn of Roe v. Wade.
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Uncounted: How the census loses track of millions of children
While the citizenship question has been the most visible census-related controversy, it has not been the only one. Another consequential debate concerns why the census manages to lose millions of children every decade, and what can be done to fix that.
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Documents expose political motivation behind census citizenship question
The discovery of a hard drive of Republican redistricting expert Thomas Hofeller could impact the Supreme Court decision on whether to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census.
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Warren's big applause line — abolish the Electoral College — gets picked up on the campaign trail
Those who think the Electoral College is problematic include numerous Democratic presidential candidates. As Sen. Elizabeth Warren put it to one audience, “Your vote just doesn’t count ... and that is wrong.”
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'What will Roberts do?' Anti-abortion laws put chief justice in the spotlight, and on the spot
The strict anti-abortion laws passed recently in Alabama, Georgia, Ohio, Mississippi, Kentucky, Iowa and North Dakota contain thousands of words. Tens of thousands more will be contained in court filings as these laws are appealed through the judicial system over the next year or more. And in their wake will come editorials, ad campaigns, speeches, fundraising letters from groups working for and against abortion rights.