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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.

Outrageous GOP attacks on women could result in a repeat of the 1992 phenomenon, which saw an upsurge in women elected to Congress.