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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 [...]

You might think 12 rules were enough - by Rule 12, "Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street", Peterson seemed to be reaching a bit. The rules are mostly familiar self-help platitudes, which Peterson drags out for dozens of pages each by bringing in everything from his patients and family to ISIS, Osiris, and Tolstoy. COLUMNS TO PREPARE FOR WRITING ABOUT JORDAN PETERSON, I asked numerous people I know what they thought of him. [Extracted from the article]

I have no problem talking about the lack of girls when I read Dr. Seuss's books (or anyone else's) to children, any more than my parents, who were atheists, had problems giving me a book of Bible stories. COLUMNS Subject to Debate NEVER MIND DR. seuss's six discontinued books. for the record, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street is a work of considerable genius, despite the offending cartoon of a Chinese man eating rice, and McElligot's Pool is pretty great too, despite its use of the outmoded word "Eskimo", complete with clichéd depiction of an Inuit in fur-lined parka. However, as many have pointed out, the rights are owned by Dr. Seuss Enterprises, and if it doesn't want to keep the books in print, that's its privilege, just the way Amazon is within its rights to drop When Harry Became Sally and keep Mein Kampf. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses issues concerning the role of misogyny in the victory of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. Topics covered include percentage of women who voted for Trump's Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton, a study which found that hostile sexism was one of the biggest predictors of Trump support and the impact of Trump's victory on the feminist movement.

COLUMNS Subject Debate SOMETIME IN THE 1990S, A FRIEND TOLD ME WE DIDN'T have to worry about progress for women: "Feminism is in the drinking water now." Some of this is because of the fields women are concentrated in: child care, for example, an almost entirely female job category, as well as retail, travel, hospitality, housecleaning, caregiving, and other jobs requiring extensive social contact. He has the benefit of her domestic labor, which his female coworkers do not have; domestic and workplace inequality work together. [Extracted from the article]

Founded in 1997, SisterSong is a women-of-color reproductive justice collective based in the South that promotes abortion and contraception access and fights the criminalization of women of color for miscarriage, abortion, and more. It's involved in everything from getting out the vote to leadership development to suing the governor of Georgia over the state's fetal heartbeat abortion ban (currently on hold). You may have read that Polish women have taken to the streets over a constitutional court decision mandating a near- total ban on abortion. [Extracted from the article]

When Donald Trump was elected, Uncle Harry predicted that the next four years would be awful but there would be only two things that couldn't be undone even if the Democrats won in 2020: the destruction Trump would wreak on the environment and the justices he would put on the Supreme Court. Trump's three Supreme Court appointments (Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett) are so far to the right that Chief Justice John Roberts is now a centrist. Uncle Harry didn't mention the lower courts, but let's not forget that Trump has nominated and the Senate has confirmed 218 federal judges to lifetime appointments; that's a quarter of the federal judge total. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on several aspects of democracy, populism and the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump. It mentions about U.S. Supreme Court's has thrown out parts of the Voting Rights Act; and also mentions that white supremacists at Charlottesville, Virginia have chanted "Jews will not replace us," not "billionaires will not replace us."

COLUMNS The title of Mary Trump's book about her family, Too Much and Never Enough, expresses my feelings perfectly. There's plenty of both in this well-written tell-all by Mary Trump, the daughter of Donald's older brother, Fred Jr. Years before, Fred Sr. had essentially arranged for Mary's mother, Linda, to be massively cheated in her divorce settlement, leaving her and her children - Fred Sr.'s grandchildren!. [Extracted from the article]

COLUMNS So many monuments to racism, slavery, and colonialism have been toppled, removed, or slated for removal in the wake of the George Floyd protests that Wikipedia's army of volunteer editors is keeping a running tally: Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and a slew of other Confederate generals and notable white supremacists and segregationists; Frank Rizzo, the notoriously racist mayor ("Vote white") of Philadelphia; even symbolic figures like the Pioneer and Pioneer Mother, formerly of the University of Oregon in Eugene. That nice Pope Francis thought so well of Father Junípero Serra that he canonized him in 2015, despite Native Americans' objections to Serra's harsh and coercive missionary work. And why did it take the horrible killing of George Floyd and the marching of hundreds of thousands of protesters daily for weeks to achieve what is, after all, a symbolic victory?. [Extracted from the article]

COLUMNS "She's a liar, a fearmonger and a con artist", Bella Abzug says of Phyllis Schlafly about two-thirds of the way into Mrs. America, FX's fascinating nine-part miniseries about Schlafly and the struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment. Some of my feminist friends think Mrs. America is too sympathetic to Schlafy. Steinem says she won't debate Schlafy because that would give her credibility, leaving it to the deeply unpleasant and irascible Friedan, who loses her cool when they debate at Illinois State University and shouts, "I'd like to burn you at the stake!". [Extracted from the article]

For example, Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year, an early example of the nonfiction novel, written in 1722 about London's Great Plague of 1665. At least Defoe's Londoners could say they simply didn't have the requisite knowledge or social capacity to combat the plague; given their limits, they did their best. Defoe's narrator was ahead of us in another crucial way: He resists the popular idea that the plague was God's judgment on the unrighteous, noting that good and bad people were equally likely to be struck down. [Extracted from the article]

After all, Russell did not just claim Parker had assaulted her; she claimed that he'd done the same to many others, "whispers" abounded about his inappropriate behavior, higher-ups in the movement knew all about it, and they had hushed it up. The incidents Russell regarded as proof positive of Parker's being a serial predator didn't happen quite that way, according to others who were there. And yet Willie Parker was ousted and ostracized and humiliated on the basis of an accusation posted on a website and rumors of rumors so vague, it isn't even clear if they are different claims or versions of the same ones. [Extracted from the article]

"Ms." went nowhere until a young civil rights worker, Sheila Michaels, fiercely promoted it on WBAI's feminist show Womankind in the runup to the Women's Strike for Equality, which took place in 1970. The writer Louise Bernikow remembers being asked if her name was Manuscript Bernikow, after the abbreviation for "manuscript" ("MS"). The Times' top editor, Abe Rosenthal, banned "Ms." from the paper until 1986, the year he retired. [Extracted from the article]

Republicans swept up big majorities in 2010, and they now dominate the legislatures in 31 states. That can change - and it had better, because after the 2020 census, the party in control of the legislature determines the electoral map in most states. Your tax dollars made the war; now donate to peace through the Afghan Women's Fund. [Extracted from the article]

The doctors performed the surgery despite the likelihood that it would shorten Carder's life; both she and her baby died. Flash-forward to 2011, when Rinat Dray, who previously had two cesareans that left her debilitated and in pain for months, decided to try for a vaginal birth at Staten Island University Hospital in New York. As Lynn Paltrow, the director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women, told me by phone, "The Dray case makes clear that all you need is a doctor who asserts that the fetus is at risk, and suddenly you don't have any rights.". [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the issue of abortion rights in the U.S. within the context of the availability of abortion pills, and the U.S. Supreme Court cases "Roe v. Wade" and "June Medical Services v. Gee." An overview of the anti-abortion movement's impact on women's reproductive rights is provided.

The author comments on Chanel Miller's memoir "Know My Name," and the crucial questions it raised about the way people treat sexual assault, and sex itself. Miller was sexually assaulted by Stanford University student Brock Turner while she was intoxicated and unconscious in 2015. Topics discussed include Miller's victim impact statement, Turner's lenient sentence of six months in county jail, and the ways that the legal process makes the trauma worse for the sexually abused.

The article presents information on the political and social conditions around the world. First editorial discusses manual counting of votes and U.S. President George W. Bush's stand on the issue. Given the closeness of the election and the rampant problems with vote-counting in Florida and elsewhere, neither Bush nor Senator Al Gore can be a clear winner. A system of counting 100 million votes cannot be expected to be accurate to within 0.001 percent. The second editorial highlights the fact that not a division in the country but a division between two politicians to win over a united country has been the source of the turmoil in the U.S. The battle is between the parties rather than the people.