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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. 

Meet the man who could be New York’s first transgender City Council member.

Let’s get real: an abortion ban exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the woman would account for less than 7 percent of abortions that happen in America each year.

What Romney may privately believe is far less important than the bargains he has made with the far-right Christian base of his party.

The wing-nuttery’s gaybaiting is not just a fringe phenomenon—it’s part of an old Republican tradition of macho posturing against Democrats.