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The abortion provider and hero knew enough to trust women. The same can't be said for the male pundits who are dominating the debate.

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A Wesleyan student is stalked and killed by a man with a gun and a mind full of hate.

I should have been a member of the torture creative class, because now I would be having a good life.

We take it for granted that when men hit, it's up to women to run away. Except, some of them stay.

Yesterday's fist-bumping radical is today's mom in chief.

Atlantic blogger Ross Douthat joins the New York Times's op-ed lineup. Depressing.

Will the skewed values of the boom years give way to a spirit of generosity toward the poor?

Two decades after the Ayatollah Khomeini called for a fatwa against Salman Rushdie, not much has changed on either side of the cultural divide.

On River: The Joni Letters Herbie Hancock and Joni Mitchell make a remarkable collaboration.