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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 [...]

The radio went on in the middle of the night and there in my ear was the voice of a young man. It was a soothing voice, deferential, quizzical, NPR-ish, [...]

I wish it had been sex, maybe some of that hot 'man on dog' action that Senator Rick Santorum is so keen on chatting about. But let me not be [...]

Tom Friedman doesn't care if the United States ever finds weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The recently discovered skull of a murdered Iraqi political prisoner is all the retroactive [...]

How do we know the economy is in bad shape? Unemployed white male hotshots are back in the news. 'This man used to make $300,000 a year,' reads the New [...]

'We are in a funding emergency today,' read the e-mail from the New York Abortion Access Fund. Four women, who had come to New York City for second-trimester abortions unavailable […]

By the time you read this, the invasion of Iraq may have begun--or it may be over. The Iraqi military may have put daisies in their gun barrels--a London-based Kurdish [...]

Who says there's nothing new under the sun? Monday, March 3, saw the emergence of a new kind of protest against war--the Lysistrata Project. Back in January, two clever and […]

The February 15 demonstration in New York was huge, exciting, exhilarating--despite the weather (brrrr) and the heavy hand of the NYPD (see below). It seemed like the whole city was […]

So Laura Bush will not, after all, be discussing the works of Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes with a selected group of American poets at the White House […]

My friend Ruth Rosen, who writes a terrific column for the San Francisco Chronicle, advised her readers to go to the antiwar marches organized by International ANSWER but to take [...]

One of my cherished childhood memories is of my petite, polite mother closing the front door firmly on two hulking FBI agents who wanted to come in and ask her [...]

What a rotten year! Not for me personally--quite the reverse in fact, as also for you, I hope--but for the things we care about: women's rights, the environment, social justice, [...]

The article focuses on political and social issues of the world. It states that the common urge to mutiny struck Italy in local elections last week when an oddball grouping of northern regional parties called leagues battered most of the right and left wing parties that have formed governments and loyal oppositions since World War II. It also reports that in 1975, a few months before independence, Mozambique Liberation Front leader Samora Machel confidently told an Organization of African Unity meeting in Tanzania that Africa was entering "the final phase of the struggle for national liberation from colonialism. Fifteen years later southern Africa is still a place of tragic paradox. Although the past fifteen years have seen the step-by-step fulfillment of Machel's prophecy, the region enters the 1990s beset by deep-rooted economic crisis and deepening social discontent.

Critics of the punitive approach to pregnant drug and alcohol users point out the ironies inherent in treating a public health concern as a matter for the criminal justice system— the contradiction, for instance, of punishing addicted women when most drug treatment programs refuse to accept pregnant women. Judges order pregnant addicts to jail, but they don't order drug treatment programs to accept them, or Medicaid, which pays for heroin treatment, to cover crack addiction, let alone order landlords not to evict them, or obstetricians to take uninsured women as patients, or the federal government to fund fully the women, infants, and children supplemental feeding program, which reaches only two-thirds of those who are eligible.

In this article, the author discusses the Baby M case. He thinks that he understands judge Harvey Sorkow's ruling in the Baby M case. It seems that a woman can rent her womb in the state of New Jersey, although not her vagina, and get a check upon turning over the product to its father. This transaction is, not baby selling, because a man has a "drive to procreate" that deserves the utmost respect and, in any case, the child is generally half his. The state Supreme Court will hear writer Mary Beth Whitehead's appeal in September and has meanwhile granted her two hours of visiting time a week, a snail sign, perhaps, that in jettisoning.

The author of the article describes an anti-abortion activist who had stationed himself outside of the building in which the journal "The Nation" has its offices- a building that houses, among other businesses and concerns, a gynecological clinic that performs abortions. The demonstrator standimg alone on the street kept shouting, "you're killing an innocent baby." But the author accepts that the impression that he had about the demonstrator, was wrong. The demonstrator was not the U.S. citizen but he refused the country of his origin.

The article discusses a survey that was based on unmarried women. It states that women are furious to read results of the survey titled "Smart Women, Foolish Choices." Basically the study plots the relation between two facts. One, during the postwar baby boom each year's crop of newborns was larger than the one the year before and two, women tend to marry "up," men two or three years older than themselves and at least as well educated, while men tend to marry "down." Thus, a woman born in 1955 is looking for her mate in the smaller pool of men born in 1953. There are not enough of them to go around to start with and the longer she waits the fewer there are.

Presents letters to the editor that comment on the article "Feminists Against the Family,' by Jean Elshtain.

The war between religious fanaticism and secular modernity is fought over women's bodies. Feminists have been saying this for years, not that anyone important was listening, but the Miss World [...]

How dismal was election night 2002? At the party I attended, the mood was so glum that one young man stood up in the TV room and announced that he [...]

Dear Christopher, I was very sad when you left the magazine, but I was puzzled too. What kind of contrarian leaves a column--called 'Minority Report,' no less--because too many of [...]

The New York City public school system doesn't have the money, time or organizational skills to make sure every child has a dictionary--or a desk. But this fall it found [...]

As in a paranoid novel by Don DeLillo, it all comes together in the end. The Democrats can't stand up to Bush on Iraq because they're afraid of looking soft [...]

So now it's official. If a foreign government does not offer its people 'the rewards and challenges of political and economic liberty,' an eternal value that all people everywhere espouse, [...]

In some parts of China, local officials keep track of women's menstrual periods. We haven't come to that, but anyone who thinks women's reproductive and sexual privacy is secure in [...]

America's rate of unwanted pregnancy is a huge public health scandal, but five years after being approved by the FDA, emergency contraception--the use of normal birth control pills to block [...]

Refugee camp invasions. Suicide bombers. House demolitions. Suicide bombers. Arrests of children, curfews, roadblocks, collective punishments, dropping one-ton bombs on densely populated streets. Suicide bombers. Only two years ago, a [...]

'Over there, the red Jeep. Park!' Ben, my gentle Filipino driving instructor, has suddenly become severe, abrupt, commanding. A slight man, he now looms in his seat; his usually soft [...]

When the New York City Board of Education called on public schools to bring back the Pledge of Allegiance in the wake of 9/11, my daughter, a freshman at Stuyvesant [...]

What would the world look like if women had full human rights? If girls went to school and young women went to college in places where now they are used [...]

Let's say I'm a Jehovah's Witness, and I get a job in an understaffed emergency room where, following the dictates of my conscience, I refuse to assist with blood transfusions [...]

Perhaps there's a limit to female masochism after all. To the great astonishment of the New York Times, which put the story on page one, Creating a Life, Sylvia Ann [...]

As chairman of the fifty-nine-member Congressional Progressive Caucus and potential candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich has been quite visible lately. At a time when few [...]

A long time ago I dated a 28-year-old man who told me the first time we went out that he wanted to have seven children. Subsequently, I was involved for [...]

Having a hard time finding a new apartment to fit your budget? Consider a move to the blocks around Ground Zero. The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the body set up [...]

Back in 1994, Christina Hoff Sommers accused The New York Times Book Review of unfairly assigning her attack on the women's movement, Who Stole Feminism?, to the distinguished scholar of [...]

Let's say there was a school system or a chain of clinics on whose professional staff were a certain number of men who molested the children in their care and [...]

On October 31 Governor Jane Swift of Massachusetts pardoned five women who had been convicted and executed in the Salem witch trials in 1692. Well, better late than never--what's a [...]

It may look as if domestic politics no longer exists in the new America--the one in which there is no money for anything besides guns and prisons but we don't [...]

The death on January 23 of the French philosopher and sociologist Pierre Bourdieu came as the American chattering classes were busy checking the math in Richard Posner's Public Intellectuals: A [...]

What would the government have to do to convince you to get married when you otherwise wouldn't? More than pay you $80 a month, I'll bet, the amount Wisconsin's much-ballyhooed [...]

As fate would have it, the very first holiday card to show up in my mailbox was from the Freedom From Religion Foundation, of which I am a devoted member [...]