Sheryl Gay Stolberg reports for The new York Times: “Jess Smochek arrived in Bangladesh in 2004 as a 23-year-old Peace Corps volunteer with dreams of teaching English and ‘helping the world.’ She left six weeks later a rape victim after being brutalized…
Lakshmi Chaudhry writes for Firstpost.com: “As it turns out, Dominique Strauss-Kahn may not like women very much. He appears instead to be a classic megalomaniac who thinks all women should be at his disposal.”
Cord Jefferson writes for BET.com: “A high school student who refused to cheer on her ‘rapist’ has been ordered to pay $45,000 for filing a ‘frivolous’ lawsuit. Where’s the justice in this?”
McKay Coppins writes: “[T]his week, news broke that the Obama administration had quietly shuttered the only Justice Department unit that exclusively fought adult obscenity . . . The Daily Beast reached out to several liberal anti-porn advocates and asked…
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) writes for the San Francisco Chronicle: “Women in the U.S. military are more likely to be raped by fellow soldiers than killed by enemy fire. I know what you’re thinking – it sounds too unbelievable to be true. But it’s not.…