Gender and Sexuality

You’re on Your Own, Kids: The End of Welfare as We Know It You’re on Your Own, Kids: The End of Welfare as We Know It

Who will speak for the rights of the unborn now that Rick Santorum is gone from the race? 

Apr 12, 2012 / Robert Scheer

The GOP Tries to Woman Up The GOP Tries to Woman Up

It is a painfully awkward dance for a party more accustomed to trampling on women’s rights.

Apr 11, 2012 / Editorial / The Editors

The True Horror of the ‘Florence’ Decision

The True Horror of the ‘Florence’ Decision The True Horror of the ‘Florence’ Decision

The Supreme Court—as well as the Obama administration—upholds the right of the world’s biggest jailer to strip everyone who comes into its grasp.

Apr 11, 2012 / Editorial / JoAnn Wypijewski

Republican Women in Denial

Republican Women in Denial Republican Women in Denial

A visit to the Republican Women's Club of New York to see Callista Gingrich suggests the GOP won’t fix its gender gap problem.

Apr 11, 2012 / Blog / Ben Adler

Ignoring Domestic Terrorism in Wisconsin Ignoring Domestic Terrorism in Wisconsin

The "Lone Wolf" defense is no excuse in Wisconsin’s Planned Parenthood bombing.

Apr 5, 2012 / Blog / Jessica Valenti

Do Republicans Think They Can Win Without Women? Do Republicans Think They Can Win Without Women?

If they believe that in exercising control over women's reproductive functions, they will also control women's voices, they are wrong.

Mar 28, 2012 / Editorial / Carol Gilligan

From ‘Brown’ to ‘Lawrence’: On the Struggle for Gay Civil Rights

From ‘Brown’ to ‘Lawrence’: On the Struggle for Gay Civil Rights From ‘Brown’ to ‘Lawrence’: On the Struggle for Gay Civil Rights

Dale Carpenter's exceptional account of the history of Lawrence v. Texas.

Mar 27, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Michael O’Donnell

Reproductive Rights and the Long Hand of Slave Breeding Reproductive Rights and the Long Hand of Slave Breeding

The pursuit of reproductive freedom and civil freedom need to be seen as one and the same.

Mar 21, 2012 / JoAnn Wypijewski

Dear Pro-Choice Women of Means

Dear Pro-Choice Women of Means Dear Pro-Choice Women of Means

Here’s why you should make a major gift to an abortion fund.

Mar 21, 2012 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Eggs Are People Too! Eggs Are People Too!

Today's “right to life” rhetoric is a bizarre cross between the theological imperative to be fruitful and multiply and the fetishism of microbiological cellular promise...

Mar 21, 2012 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

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