Irin Carmon writes on Salon: “This week, in the wake of Rush Limbaugh’s atrocious comments about Sandra Fluke, nominal liberal Kirsten Powers suggested that Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Bill Maher, Matt Taibbi and Ed Schultz are the ones who are trul…
The editorial board of Teh Washington Post writes: “[T]he Virginia legislation is supremely pointless. It substitutes a mandate for a doctor’s judgment, so that the government will require ultrasounds even though they already take place in most instances…
Petula Dvorak writes in The Washington Post: “‘All across the globe, our stories are the same,’ said Berline Vaita, the Kenyan abuse survivor who was attending the World Conference of Women’s Shelters at National Harbor on Monday.”
The editors of The New York Times write: “A wave of mergers between Roman Catholic and secular hospitals is threatening to deprive women in many areas of the country of ready access to important reproductive services. Catholic hospitals that merge or for…
Amanda Hess reports on GOOD: “In every field, at every level of education, men earn more than women. That’s the grim takeaway of this new report [PDF] from the U.S. Census Bureau, which assesses the value of a higher education in the United States—and il…
