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Ted Koppel is not exactly known for in-depth coverage of the issues, but in March he came across a story so big, so urgent, so far-reaching in its implications for [...]

Women's real mission was to 'humanize' men before men blew up the world. Women in the workforce won't be more honest, kind, egalitarian, empathic. Some years ago, I was invited [...]

Unlike many of the commentators who have made Murphy Brown the most famous unmarried mother since Ingrid Bergman ran off with Roberto Rossellini, I actually watched the notorious childbirth episode. [...]

As the war over abortion heats up and Roe v. Wade goes down for the count, the instant experts sit down at their word processors. Why should this issue paralyze [...]

For the past couple of years we've all been witness to a furious debate about the literary canon. What books should be assigned to students? What books should critics discuss? [...]

I drink, I swear, I flirt, I tell dirty jokes. I have also, at various times, watched pornographic videos, had premarital sex, hitchhiked, and sunbathed topless in violation of local [...]

To the small and curious class of English words that have double and contradictory meanings 'moot,' for example, and 'cleave'-the word 'mother' can now be added. Within the space of [...]

Some scenes from the way we live now: *In New York City, a pregnant woman orders a glass of wine with her restaurant meal. A stranger comes over to her [...]

Women don't shout. Women don't like politics. Women shrink from intellectual debate. Women don't try. It's time for another round of 'What's Wrong with Women?' Last month's category was science. [...]

Beijing Plus 10, the follow-up on the momentous 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, is opening at the United Nations as I write, and like other UN gatherings [...]

Cambridge, Mass. * According to Katha Pollitt ['Subject to Debate,' Feb. 21], the press has responded to Harvard president Lawrence Summers's remarks on gender disparities in science by writing, 'Women [...]

As the saying goes, behind every successful woman is a man who is surprised. Harvard president Larry Summers apparently is that man. A distinguished economist who was Treasury Secretary under [...]

Can a dose of Christianity stiffen the Democrats' spine, win back Kansas and bring people power to the anemic left? In the wake of the 2004 election, quite a few [...]

I was listening to Morning Edition on December 30, and up came one of those end-of-the-year heart-warmers that's supposed to make you feel there's hope for this old world yet. [...]

Another holiday season--and only a year after the last one. How did that happen? Probably you are feeling a bit tapped out just now, what with having given your savings, [...]

How long did it take Republicans to write their thank-you note to the Christian right? About five minutes. On November 21, Congress passed a $388 billion spending bill that permits [...]

Sitting alone in a classroom at a Catholic all-boys high school this weekend (don't ask), I passed the time by browsing through the health textbooks stacked on the window sill. [...]

Please. Just right now, don't say, 'Don't mourn, organize' or 'Pray for the dead but fight like hell for the living.' Don't explain Kerry's loss with Harry Truman's quip that [...]

Reservists mutiny in Iraq, old people keel over standing in line for flu shots and all sorts of cats leap out of Bush's bag of secrets: According to Ron Suskind's [...]

Many viewers were puzzled when, toward the end of the second debate, George W. Bush answered a question about Supreme Court nominees by referring to the Dred Scott case. Why [...]

Democrats haven't made much of what would happen to the courts should Bush win a second term. This is curious, because you'll remember that the Gore campaign was virtually tattooed [...]

Juliana Zuccaro and Kelly Kraus thought they were exercising their civic rights and responsibilities on August 31 when, as officers of the Network of Feminist Student Activists at the University […]

For well over a decade now, right-wingers and Republicans have heaped insult, lies and slander on liberals and Democrats, who responded for the most part by becoming starchy, self-doubting and [...]

It says something about the iron grip of the culture wars on our politics that no less a liberal than John Kerry--with his 100 percent ratings from NARAL, Human Rights [...]

I had a swell time at Fahrenheit 9/11, Michael Moore's documentary about George Bush's dubious progress from Florida to Iraq. It's his best movie--funny, heartbreaking, outraged and outrageous--and deserves its […]

As numerous reviewers of the overblown and over-remade remake of The Stepford Wives have pointed out, men do not really want to be married to robots. In particular, it is [...]

As crises go, medical insurance is not a very sexy one. It's not that no one talks about the 43.6 million uninsured, skyrocketing drug costs, emergency rooms crammed with patients [...]

Should the government bring back the draft? Republican Senator Chuck Hagel has been talking it up, and it has captured the imagination of many liberals and leftists as well. Last [...]

What are the thousand words, I wonder, that are worth the pictures of grinning US soldiers sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison? An essay by Michael Ignatieff about [...]

Did you know that since January 1, women in Texas have not been able to obtain abortions from the sixteenth week of pregnancy on? This blackout on women's rights and [...]

The good news is that Utah has dropped murder charges against Melissa Rowland, who rejected her doctors' advice to undergo an immediate Caesarean section and gave birth to a stillborn [...]

Single women under 65--those separated, widowed, divorced or never married--represent at least 24 percent of the voting-age population and a whopping 46 percent of voting-age women. According to an influential […]

My friends had one question for me after I saw Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ: Is it anti-Semitic? It's a testament to Gibson's public relations genius that this [...]

For a moment it looked as if the FDA was going to do the right thing. It was going to go with medical science and make emergency contraception available over [...]

This morning I got an e-mail from Feminist Majority asking me to e-mail the President protesting the Iraqi Governing Council's approval of Resolution 137, which would abolish current family law [...]

I used to think we should get rid of First Ladies. Plenty of countries manage without a national wife: Cherie Blair aside (and how long would Britain's answer to Hillary [...]

A while back, in a column calling for more arts funding, I observed that a lot more people are interested in classical music, ballet, theater and museums than are interested [...]

There was plenty of gloomy news for women in 2003. American women make just under 80 cents on the male dollar for full-time, year-round work. We lost Carolyn Heilbrun, Carol [...]

When did Christmas shopping become a patriotic duty, the contemporary equivalent of collecting tin cans in World War II? 9/11 is partly to blame--remember when Bush told Americans to do [...]

Will someone please explain to me how permitting gays and lesbians to marry threatens the institution of marriage? Now that the Massachusetts Supreme Court has declared gay marriage a constitutional [...]

All right, so maybe Howard Dean could have thought of a better way of reaching out to white Southern men than saying he wanted "to be the candidate for guys […]

Why is it that 'think pieces' about women and work and kids and marriage always leave one suspecting that the minute these corporate-lawyers-turned-stay-at-home-moms hang up the phone on the reporter, [...]

There are many things to be said against condoms, and most people reading this have probably said them all. But at least they work. Not perfectly--they slip, they break, they [...]

What's the matter with conservatives? Why can't they relax and be happy? They have the White House, both houses of Congress, the majority of governorships and more money than God. [...]

What was the lowest point in Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver's appearance on Oprah? Was it when the three of them chortled and beamed about how exciting it was for [...]

New York City; Princeton, NJ * We appreciate Katha Pollitt's August 4/11 'Subject to Debate' column and are especially grateful for her conclusion that the report 'Progress and Perils,' published [...]

The 5,300-pound hunk of granite carved with the Ten Commandments has been rolled out of Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore's Montgomery courtroom to gather moss in an unspecified back room. [...]

What did Howard Dean do to make the media so snarky about his primary run? Now that he has emerged as a major fundraiser with flocks of enthusiastic supporters, a [...]

Pro-life women shift to majority, trumpets the Washington Times. Other concerns come in 'way ahead of preserving abortion rights,' USA Today declares. 'Progress and Perils,' the latest poll commissioned by [...]

Hillary Clinton's autobiography comes out barely a week after Martha Stewart is indicted for obstruction of justice and fraud related to alleged insider trading, and you still don't believe in [...]