The Department of Justice updates its sexual-violence reporting requirements to include men and those unable to consent to sex because of intoxication.
Gender & Sexuality
Posted inAmerica and the World
While You Were Out
Same-sex marriages in Spain and Mexico, the cost of being a same-sex couple in Michigan and the U.S. at large, and (woohoo!) transgender breakthroughs
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Catholic Bishops versus Tolerance
Making children suffer for your religious beliefs
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Friday Miscellany, Year-End 2011
A Navy sailor’s public kiss, a Ugandan activist’s courage, a hurrah for the Girl Scouts, and the passing of an accidental hero.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Time for Plan B on Plan B?
New research proves progressives were right to be upset by restrictions on emergency contraceptives.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Forget “Stranger Danger”
The Sandusky scandal reminds us that abuse most often comes from family and trusted friends.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Social-Conservative Frontrunner
Rick Santorum picks up endorsements from opponents of same-sex marriage in Iowa.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Latest Proposition
Will a voter referendum to allow same-sex marriage in California thrust social issues back into the spotlight this election season?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Full Court Press
Gingrich’s threat to ignore court decisions speaks to conservative Iowans still upset about gay marriage in the state.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Friday Miscellany
A conservative mayor unintentionally outs himself, obesity drops among NYC schoolchildren, and every U.S. writer says goodbye to Christopher Hitchens.