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…
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…
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.”
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.”
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,…