As Jordanian Women Leave the Home, Sexual Harassment Reaches Unprecedented Levels As Jordanian Women Leave the Home, Sexual Harassment Reaches Unprecedented Levels
Social media platforms are enabling women to speak out anonymously and show that harassment exists—but that hasn’t resulted in culture change.
Mar 18, 2014 / Feature / Elizabeth Whitman
Women on the Side: Why Anti-Choicers Won’t Win Women on the Side: Why Anti-Choicers Won’t Win
The strategic shift from calling women murderers to labeling them victims of abortion will never work, because we understand that in either case our health and rights are beside th...
Mar 18, 2014 / Jessica Valenti
The NCAA’s House Divided Will Not Stand The NCAA’s House Divided Will Not Stand
It’s March Madness, that time of year when the NCAA’s revenue streams become a biblical flood, and this revenue gusher is creating an unholy pressure on the foundations...
Mar 18, 2014 / Dave Zirin
Why the NRA Is Blocking Obama’s Surgeon General Nominee Why the NRA Is Blocking Obama’s Surgeon General Nominee
It’s not about his record: it’s part of a longstanding effort to make discussion of gun violence taboo, and to keep the gun industry unregulated.
Mar 18, 2014 / Zoë Carpenter
Effort to Revive Affirmative Action in California Splits Asian-American Community Effort to Revive Affirmative Action in California Splits Asian-American Community
A grassroots movement tapped into fears that affirmative action would close off university spots for Asian-American students.
Mar 18, 2014 / Steven Hsieh
After Senate Revelations, the CIA Should Be Looking Over its Shoulder After Senate Revelations, the CIA Should Be Looking Over its Shoulder
This showdown can‘t be ignored. At stake is whether the CIA is accountable to the Congress and the law.
Mar 18, 2014 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Why Women Rightly Fear Failure Why Women Rightly Fear Failure
If the world demands that you work twice as hard to get half the reward, why would you handicap yourself?
Mar 18, 2014 / Bryce Covert
Republican Vaporware: Four Years Later, the GOP Still Isn’t Serious About Replacing Obamacare Republican Vaporware: Four Years Later, the GOP Still Isn’t Serious About Replacing Obamacare
Eric with the latest reviews and Reed on the GOP and Obamacare.
Mar 18, 2014 / Eric Alterman and Reed Richardson
Why Women Use Birth Control Why Women Use Birth Control
A reporter interviews a young woman about her contraceptive choices.
Mar 18, 2014 / Tom Tomorrow
Media Isn’t Baseball: Diversity Problems in the Clubhouse Media Isn’t Baseball: Diversity Problems in the Clubhouse
The numbers for representation of women and people of color in the media don’t add up to anything good.
Mar 17, 2014 / Julia Carrie Wong