Sex Week Arouses Conservative Ire

President Obama’s first budget proposal in 2009 redirected millions of dollars of federal funds from abstinence-only sex education programs to comprehensive sex ed. Unfortunately, many students ...Read More

Senator Alan Kooi Simpson Steps in a Cow Pie

Former Republican Sen. Alan Simpson recently stated that Social Security is becoming “a cow with 310 million tits.” I’m a vegetarian, but even I know that cows don’t have tits, they have teats. ...Read More

Vote for (Sh)Equality

It’s been 90 years since U.S. women won the right to vote after a 100-year struggle. With Women’s Equality Day–the day the 19th Amendment was ratified–we’re paying homage ...Read More

Parental Notification, Alaska Version

Yesterday, the Alaskan primary ballot included a measure to institute a parental notification law for minors seeking abortions. Unfortunately, the law passed. So what are the ramifications of this ...Read More

The Million-Dollar Diet

I learned this week of a new twist on college fundraising. Perhaps I should say twisted fundraising, as this scheme at Stephens College, a private women’s college in Columbia, Mo., blends the worst ...Read More

Schwarzenegger’s Next Expendables—California Women?

National health care passed in March, but health insurance companies—with the full support of the California Republican legislators and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger—are still working overtime ...Read More

How Much Worse Can the Mosque Bashers Get? Ask Big John

On Fox News Sunday,” Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), speaking of the controversy over the building of a mosque near Ground Zero, said troops in Afghanistan are being asked to find common ground with ...Read More

SNEAK PEEK: The Women Who Won’t Abandon the Gulf

The government says that the millions of barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf are “dissipating.” But environmentalists warn about long-term effects. Does the “Mission Accomplished” ...Read More

More Than Dollar Coins and Disney: Native Women Warriors

Indian women are conspicuously absent in U.S. history. When asked to name some famous Indian women, most people have difficulty in recalling anyone other than Pocahontas and Sacajawea. Both of these ...Read More

Making Us SAFER: A Bill to Reduce Rape Kit Backlog

Over 400,000 rape kits sit untested in refrigerators around the U.S. Any clues they may hold to rapists’ identities remain buried. But if the SAFER Act passes, the situation could drastically ...Read More

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