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The college abstinence-only movement sells itself as empowering and pro-woman. Too bad the usual rejection of marriage equality and reproductive rights still applies.

In the quest for bike-friendly cities, are snobby cyclists their own worst enemies?

We’ve become a nation of screamers, not thinkers. Here’s how to bring thoughtfulness back in 2010.

Some progressives have called health-care reform without a public option worthless. Here’s why they’re wrong.

Dueling “ex-gay” and gay-rights conferences have more in common than the attendees would like to believe.

We all define ourselves by our enemies — but it can be taken too far.

Last week, new guidelines for breast cancer screening inspired a panic. Will we ever be able to discuss effective health care reasonably?

How federal agencies learned to stop worrying and love Web 2.0.

Stoner jokes aside, the debate over America’s drug policy is sounding increasingly sane.