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T.J. Raphael

T. J. Raphael is The Takeaway's Digital Content Editor. Before joining The Takeaway, T. J. was Senior Editor of FOLIO: Magazine and FOLIOMag.com. There she covered the evolving media landscape, technology, economics, social media, apps, publishing and marketing.As a staff reporter for The Legislative Gazette, based in the New York state capital, T. J. covered Constitutional law, Congressional elections and the New York State Legislature. She's also been a contributing writer to The Village Voice in New York City, and a general assignment reporting intern for the New York Daily News where she covered everything from entertainment to crime.Her work has been cited by the New York Civil Liberties Union, the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, The Economist and The Washington Post, among others. She graduated with honors from Purchase College with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and a minor in Political Science.
Activists participate in a march to call for an end to violence against women during International Women's Day in San Salvador, El Salvador, March 8, 2018.
Conflict
UN Women head: The time is now for gender equality
Escorts surround this patient outside of Metropolitan Medical Associates in Englewood, New Jersey.
Culture
When health care comes with harassment: Photographing abortion clinic protests
March for Life
Lifestyle
He argues for rolling back abortion rights in the US
rally
Health
In the 45 years since Roe v. Wade, states have passed 1,193 abortion restrictions
A bird eats dead fish in the area where thousands of dead fish washed up on Abangaritos beach in Puntarenas, Costa Rica, Feb. 16, 2017.
Environment
As oceans suffocate, dead zones grow
A small group of demonstrators block traffic to demand action by the federal government on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) in downtown San Diego, California, Dec. 4, 2017.
Conflict
Here’s how Trump’s crackdown on ‘chain migration’ will affect migrant families
As stories of harassment and assault continue to arise, journalists are grappling with how best to corroborate a victim’s story.
Media
How journalists corroborate sexual harassment and assault claims
Myra Gregory and her son Roland.
Economics
Unless Congress acts, nearly 9 million US children could soon be without health care
President Donald Trump has some help with his Twitter account.
Since the 2016 campaign, there’s been at least one other person behind the @realDonaldTrump handle
Howard Dean
Leaders
Howard Dean says it’s time for his generation of the Democratic Party to move over
guns
Culture
How gun laws let domestic violence offenders slip through the cracks
me too
Culture
Poll: For women at work, harassment complaints fall on deaf ears
Saudi rapper
Culture
How a rapper’s radio interview revealed a Saudi soft power campaign
george papadopoulos
Justice
Who is George Papadopoulos?
Band-Aid
Health
The curious case of the $629 ER bill — and one expensive Band-Aid
Harvey Weinstein
Culture
The Harvey Weinstein cover-up: How censorship, settlements and silence kept the allegations out of the news
Firefighters work to put out hot spots on a fast moving wind driven wildfire in Orange, California, Oct. 9, 2017.
Environment
Wildfires creating ‘hellscape’ in Northern California
Hurricane Maria damage
Development
Puerto Rico calls for more federal help after Hurricane Maria
A scene from the latest issue of Superman.
Books
Would Superman be a DACA recipient?
Hurricane Irma, a record Category 5 storm, passes over Barbuda and other Caribbean islands in this NOAA National Weather Service National Hurricane Center satellite image taken on September 6, 2017.
Environment
Barbuda needs the world’s help right now
Salman Rushdie
Books
Salman Rushdie’s new novel centers on a billionaire real estate mogul who has ‘Trumpy echoes’
Trump and Arpaio
Conflict
Trump’s Arpaio pardon draws bipartisan criticism
Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center
Conflict
‘Act of terrorism’ at Minnesota mosque rattles Muslims
newborn baby
Culture
Momentum builds to end surgery on intersex newborns
Man lies in bed in small room with wheelchair next to him
Economics
Immigration detention quotas cost taxpayers billions — a ‘mindless policy’ says one congressman
LGBTQ military servicemember
Conflict
Queer service member: Trump’s trans ban ‘is about fear and loathing of transgender Americans’
Arthur Brand
Arts
The Indiana Jones of the art world may solve history’s biggest art heist
Trump and Putin
Global Politics
The Trump-Russia investigation: A timeline
Mitch McConnell
Global Politics
Parsing through the details of the GOP’s health care bill
Detention center
Justice
How immigration detention creates a shadow prison system
Comey
Conflict
With Comey’s dismissal, are we careening towards a constitutional crisis?
Hayden
Conflict
Former NSA director says this White House can’t handle the truth
Juvenile arrests
Conflict
How Florida keeps kids in the criminal justice system
Kela
Economics
Finland’s guaranteed basic income is working to tackle poverty
Automation
Jobs
Meet LoweBot, a customer-service robot here to give you ‘superpowers’
School lunch
Culture
Trump’s new school lunch plan allows for ‘dangerously high levels of sodium’
Jordan Edwards
Conflict
What we know so far about the police shooting of Jordan Edwards
US President Donald Trump
Jobs
No, Donald Trump didn’t invent Loyalty Day. And it’s had support from both sides of the aisle.
A reporter shoots a picture of a White House press release on its tax reform plan during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, April 26, 2017.
Economics
President Trump, how will your tax plan spur economic growth?
Buffalo schools
Culture
How Buffalo’s public schools are setting international students up for success
Jessie McKim
Justice
Is it murder if there’s no homicide?
Border wall construction
Economics
How Trump’s border wall demands could lead to a government shutdown
Mushrooms
Arts
What nature can teach us about sustainability and innovation
Nestle
Economics
While Flint waits, Nestle pumps Michigan water on the cheap
Great Barrier Reef
Lifestyle
Scientists say the Great Barrier Reef is officially dying
Taxes
Economics
How we could simplify the American tax filing process
"Your Name"
Arts
The biggest anime film of all time comes to the US
Mike Mullen
Conflict
Former Joint Chiefs Chairman Mike Mullen says the US must keep the door open with Moscow
Bashar al-Assad
Conflict
President Trump, can the US act as global police and put ‘America first’?
Syria
Conflict
If Assad stayed, could Syria ever rebuild from war?
Venezuela
Global Politics
In Venezuela, chaos worsens as political crisis grows
Arctic
Global Politics
President Trump, why are scientists finding their research suddenly being censored by the government?
Women's hockey team
Sports
The US Women’s National Hockey Team went after equal pay and fair treatment — and won
The patient's entrance at the National Institutes of Health is shown in Bethesda, Maryland October 16, 2014.
Global Politics
President Trump, how will your proposed cuts to the National Institutes for Health impact public health?
Rusty patched bumblebee
Global Politics
President Trump, will you preserve the Endangered Species Act?
ABAAD
Global Politics
Lebanese women fight to overturn law that protects rapists
Mental health rally
Global Politics
President Trump, will you make sure mental health coverage is included in the American Health Care Act?
Rex Tillerson
Conflict
When it comes to North Korea, the era of ‘strategic patience’ is over
Mattis
Global Politics
President Trump, why are you shrinking the EPA when Defense Secretary Mattis believes climate change is a national security threat?
Asteroid
Technology
‘Asteroid hunters’ search for space rocks that could collide with Earth