Ireland Embraces Marriage Equality and Shows the US What Democracy Looks Like Ireland Embraces Marriage Equality and Shows the US What Democracy Looks Like
Nothing boosts turnout like giving votes a chance to do the right thing.
May 24, 2015 / John Nichols
‘Mad Men’ Finale Makes Rush Limbaugh Un‘Happyish’ ‘Mad Men’ Finale Makes Rush Limbaugh Un‘Happyish’
Both Rush Limbaugh and Don Draper desperately need advertising to save them.
May 22, 2015 / Leslie Savan
#SayHerName Shows Black Women Face Police Violence, Too—and Pregnancy and Motherhood Are No Refuge #SayHerName Shows Black Women Face Police Violence, Too—and Pregnancy and Motherhood Are No Refuge
Today's national day of action hopes to draw attention to the lives of black women and girls lost to police violence.
May 21, 2015 / Dani McClain
Birth Control That Works Too Well Birth Control That Works Too Well
A Colorado program to give low-income teens long-acting contraception dropped the teen abortion rate dramatically. But conservatives refuse to fund it.
May 20, 2015 / Column / Katha Pollitt
The Not-So-Feminist History of Wonder Woman The Not-So-Feminist History of Wonder Woman
The superheroine’s polygamous creator exploited the love and labor of the women who were his inspiration.
May 19, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Emily Greenhouse
Tennessee’s Abstinence-Based Sex-Ed Law Is Especially Bad for Black Students Tennessee’s Abstinence-Based Sex-Ed Law Is Especially Bad for Black Students
Memphis leads the nation in sexually transmitted infections, but its schools do little to keep students safe.
May 15, 2015 / Dani McClain
All the Single Ladies Aren’t So Privileged All the Single Ladies Aren’t So Privileged
And it’ll take more than self-empowerment to truly free us from the expectation of marriage.
May 13, 2015 / Samhita Mukhopadhyay
Entering the Mind of My Rapist: An Exercise in Extreme Empathy Entering the Mind of My Rapist: An Exercise in Extreme Empathy
What would it be like, I suddenly wondered, to put myself in the head of my rapist?
May 13, 2015 / Feature / Deborah Copaken Kogan
Rand Paul Is Fighting for Your Privacy—Unless You’re a Woman Rand Paul Is Fighting for Your Privacy—Unless You’re a Woman
If he really believed in “the right to be left alone,” he’d fight for women to have as much control over their bodies as their phone records.
May 12, 2015 / Zoë Carpenter
Why Afghan Women Carried a Funeral Casket for the First Time in Memory Why Afghan Women Carried a Funeral Casket for the First Time in Memory
Farkhunda was murdered on the streets of Kabul while thousands looked on. Now Afghan women are rising up.
May 12, 2015 / Ann Jones