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From Soy to Sex: Why 'Natural' Often Means Bad for Women

A throwback is just that, even if it is shrouded in organic hemp cloth.

Jessica Valenti

My So-Called 'Post-Feminist' Life in Arts and Letters
Slut-shaming, name-calling and no respect: welcome to life in literary America for a 21st century female author.
Deborah Copaken Kogan
Posted Apr 9 2013 - 5:56pm
House of Horrors: On Domestic Violence
America's military-masculinity complex is generating violence on a mass scale—at home.
Erika Eichelberger
Posted Apr 18 2013 - 10:55am
The GOP-Fox Circus Act
Post Election Day, is the network's huge audience tuning out?
Reed Richardson
Posted Apr 10 2013 - 11:28am

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Protesters in front of the Supreme Court
What Difference Will Same-Sex Marriage Make? (Feminism, Supreme Court, Law, Society)

Sooner or later, marriage equality will win. What happens to marriage then?

Melissa Harris-Perry
A DNA analyst processes evidence
The Dark Side of DNA Evidence (Racism and Discrimination, Science, Law, Police and Law Enforcement)

Collecting DNA upon arrest can identify the guilty and exonerate the innocent. But it also amounts to an expanding racial dragnet.

Jason Silverstein
Wayne LaPierre
Wayne LaPierre Is Winning (Guns and Gun Control)

Deride the NRA's spokesman all you want, but his group is close to gutting gun control legislation in Congress.

The Editors
Sheryl Sandberg
Who's Afraid of Sheryl Sandberg? (Feminism, Internet and New Media, Labor)

Feminists were quick—too quick—to question the Facebook COO's motives for writing Lean In, her self-help manifesto.

Katha Pollitt
Ahmed Ferhani
Did the NYPD Entrap Ahmed Ferhani? (Increased Security After 9-11, Police and Law Enforcement, Profiling)

The government says he is a terrorist. But his conversations with undercover police tell a different story.

John Knefel

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