In February, the state of Virginia became a focal point of attention in the national media when its legislature attempted to pass a forced ultrasound law that required doctors to know the gestational...
Late last night, as I was lying in bed, pondering which of the day’s many issues could possibly be relevant and serious enough to merit coverage in my column at Global Comment, I heard the sound of...
The Occupy movement was supposed to be ideal. It had momentum; it had unifying, “universal” potential; most importantly, it was never tied to any one figurehead or charismatic leader. Having a...
New Yorkers who had been following the Dominique Strauss-Kahn rape case got a nasty shock this Saturday. In my case, it was broken to me gently. While I was picking up a soda in my local bodega, a...
This weekend, Meghan Cox Gurdon opined in The Wall Street Journal that the current generation of young adult fiction is 'too dark' for readers; 'So dark that kidnapping and pederasty and incest and...
If the international spread of SlutWalk means anything, it means this: You should never underestimate the power of a simple idea. Nor should you expect that idea to remain simple for very long....
One doesn’t expect to find the phrase “whore-friendly panties” in an article about eight-year-olds. Still, there it was: Smack dab in the middle of LZ Granderson’s April 19 column for CNN...
Last week, journalist Lara Logan was sexually assaulted by a group of protesters in Egypt. Details of the assault emerged over time: She was forcibly isolated from her crew. She was beaten; some of...
Emma Donoghue. Room: A Novel. Little, Brown and Company: New York, 2010. Disclaimer: Room is a novel that is impossible to discuss without revealing some plot points. Consider yourself warned. We...
“Girls Gone Wild” goes to various campuses and bars where women are partying and encourages them to reveal their bodies and perform for the cameras. In most of the filmed scenes, these women are...