The Washington Post Editorial Board: “About the only thing that Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) gets right when she talks about the HPV vaccine is that she’s not a scientist or a doctor. That lack of credentials, though, can’t excuse the breathtaking ign…
The Washington Post Editorial Board: “In both of this month’s Republican presidential debates, Rep. Michele Bachmann hailed what she evidently believes was the golden age of American immigration…Ms. Bachmann’s nostalgia is touching but misplaced, unles…
Ed O’Keefe writing for the Washington Post: “After almost 18 years, the Pentagon plans Tuesday to formally repeal the ban on gays in uniform, known as “don’t ask, don’t tell,” permitting troops for the first time to publicly reveal that they’re gay witho…
The Washington Post editorial: “It’s already hard to get an abortion in Virginia, and it’s about to get much harder.The reason is a new set of regulations — absurdly onerous and utterly unnecessary — pushed by conservative ideologues in Richmond and adop…
Vanessa blogging for Feministing: “The World Bank has released its 2012 World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development, which has a lot of really interesting findings about the state of women in the world today across a broad range of areas,…