10 things you need to know today: January 21, 2018

Hundreds of thousands rally for Women's March, Washington returns to shutdown talks and blame, and more

People gather at the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool to rally before the Women's March on January 20, 2018 in Washington, D.C.
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1. Hundreds of thousands rally for Women's March

The Women's March returned for a second year Saturday as hundreds of thousands of women rallied in cities across the country and at sister marches abroad. The march in Washington proceeded despite the government shutdown, which many demonstrators referenced as part of their critique of the Trump administration. Immigration policy, the #MeToo movement, health care, and the 2018 midterms were of central concern to protesters, who encouraged each other to vote against President Trump's GOP this year. Trump responded on Twitter Saturday, commenting that the weather was nice for women to celebrate his many accomplishments, particularly in the economic realm.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.