Navy Hearing in Rape Case Raises Alarm

Jennifer Steinhauer writes for The New York Times: “For roughly 30 hours over several days, defense lawyers for three former United States Naval Academy football players grilled a female midshipman about her sexual habits. In a public hearing, they asked…

Rape Settlement at Occidental College: Victims Barred from Campus Activism

Jon Wiener writes for The Nation: “Occidental College, the Los Angeles school where thirty-seven students and alumni filed a federal complaint last spring about rape on campus, has quietly settled with at least ten of the complainants. Under the settleme…

Supreme Court asked to rule on ObamaCare birth control mandate

Elise Viebeck writes for The Hill: “The ObamaCare birth control mandate appears headed to the Supreme Court after two separate cases on the contraception policy were referred Thursday to the justices.”

Daughters (Still) Are the Caregivers

Paula Span writes for The New York Times’ blog The New Old Age: “When it comes to taking care of aging mothers, biology is destiny. Or, to be more precise, biology plus geography equals destiny.”

Why Janet Yellen, Not Larry Summers, Should Lead the Fed

Joseph E. Stiglitz writes for The New York Times: “The controversy over the choice of the next head of the Federal Reserve has become unusually heated. The country is fortunate to have an enormously qualified candidate: the Fed’s current vice chairwoman,…