Nation Topics - Gender and Sexuality | The Nation

Refusing to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, Republicans are leaving rape victims with few options.

Long waits and too few providers are consigning more and more women to illegal abortions.

Our civil rights discourse must address the ways our institutions systemically oppress certain communities.

But will it decide that the petitioners have standing?

The New York Times columnist is so obsessed with women’s fertility, it’s too bad he can’t get pregnant himself.

If the director of the CIA and a Reserve intelligence officer can’t even conduct a decent affair, what does that say about the institution that groomed them?

Her death is a warning: It could happen here.

Why women are winning the culture wars and what we should take on next.

With a new play, Emotional Creature, and big plans for V-Day 2013, the activist playwright reaches for new heights.