NSA: Lessons from the ’60s

History and experience teach us to mistrust the state and view its abuses with cool contempt

Thursday, Jun 20, 2013 12:00 AM UTC
Since You Asked, nsa leak

“Ex-gay” Christian group to LGBT people: We’re sorry

"I understand why I am distrusted and why Exodus is hated," writes Exodus International president Alan Chambers

Wednesday, Jun 19, 2013 8:57 PM UTC 81
exodus international

HPV vaccine leads to drastic drop in infection rate among teens

"The report should be a wake-up call to our nation," said CDC Director Thomas Frieden

Wednesday, Jun 19, 2013 7:18 PM UTC
hpv vaccine, HPV

Poll: Americans despise their airlines

According to a new American Customer Satisfaction Index, it's the country's third most reviled service provider

, International Business Times Wednesday, Jun 19, 2013 6:51 PM UTC
International Business Times

Is the government screwing pornographers?

Adult movie producers and sex educators are taking the attorney general to trial over a record-keeping law

Wednesday, Jun 19, 2013 6:20 PM UTC 30
Pornography, Sex, Love and Sex

National study finds discrimination against gay couples in housing market

The report found that gay couples -- particularly gay male couples -- experience unequal treatment by rental agents

Wednesday, Jun 19, 2013 6:01 PM UTC
housing discrimination, Housing

Serena’s rape victim-blaming got everything wrong

The tennis star's apology for her comments about the Steubenville rape victim didn't help matters either

Wednesday, Jun 19, 2013 5:56 PM UTC 118
Serena Williams, Rolling Stone

Internet trolls love feminist writers

The irony is that for all their misogyny, they spend an inordinate amount of time reading about women's issues

, PolicyMic Wednesday, Jun 19, 2013 5:25 PM UTC 89
PolicyMic, Feminism, Internet

Brazil “wakes up”

Protests across the country reflect a growing dissatisfaction with its political system and its public services

, GlobalPost Wednesday, Jun 19, 2013 4:56 PM UTC
GlobalPost, Brazil

Delaware passes measure to protect transgender rights

Gov. Jack Markell plans to sign the bill, making Delaware the 14th state to pass such a law

Wednesday, Jun 19, 2013 4:48 PM UTC
transgender rights, LGBT Rights

Creepy pickup artist rakes in Kickstarter cash

Kickstarter campaigner Ken Hoinsky offers tips for overcoming women's "resistance"

Wednesday, Jun 19, 2013 3:42 PM UTC 123

Serena Williams blames Steubenville rape survivor for “putting herself in that position”

UPDATE: Williams issues an apology for remarks blaming a 16-year-old girl for getting raped

Wednesday, Jun 19, 2013 3:36 PM UTC 91
steubenville rape case

Archbishop: “May a lesbian marry a gay man? My answer is ‘yes’”

A cleric says gay people can totally marry -- as long as they marry someone of the opposite sex

Wednesday, Jun 19, 2013 2:42 PM UTC 29
LGBT, Catholic Church

Brazil lawmakers vote to lift ban on gay “conversion therapy”

The "gay cure" measure passed a vote by Brazil's congressional human rights committee

Wednesday, Jun 19, 2013 1:50 PM UTC
Brazil, Gay, Gay Rights

John Horne Burns: The writer Hemingway and Vidal envied

"The Gallery" was among the first (and best) novels about gay life in the military. Its author has an amazing story

Wednesday, Jun 19, 2013 12:00 AM UTC
History, World War II, Gay Rights

NSA spying kills my faith in America

I thought privacy and the Fourth Amendment meant something. What do I tell my kids now?

Wednesday, Jun 19, 2013 12:00 AM UTC 27
Since You Asked, NSA

Five easy steps for becoming a rape apologist

James Taranto's editorial provides a handy guide for blaming the victim

Tuesday, Jun 18, 2013 10:07 PM UTC 44
James Taranto

How Obamacare shortchanges low-wage workers

The Affordable Care Act will benefit millions of low-income employees -- except those working for big businesses

, Next New Deal Tuesday, Jun 18, 2013 10:04 PM UTC 24
Next New Deal, Obamacare

Texas councilwoman outraged over billboard featuring gay couple

Vonciel Jones Hill is upset that an HIV awareness billboard makes being gay seem "acceptable"

Tuesday, Jun 18, 2013 5:33 PM UTC 26
HIV, Texas, sexual health

Guys worry about sex on the first date too

We assume men just want to have sex as early as possible. But the truth is more complex

Tuesday, Jun 18, 2013 5:05 PM UTC 45
dating, Sex, Feminism

Miss Utah gives wonderfully succinct answer to question about women and work

Marissa Powell was nervous at Sunday's Miss USA pageant, which is why she flubbed her response, she says VIDEO

Tuesday, Jun 18, 2013 4:48 PM UTC 28
Video, women and work, women

GOP lawmaker: Extreme abortion ban justified because of masturbating fetuses

Rep. Michael Burgess has seen fetuses with "their hands between their legs" as early as 15 weeks, he says VIDEO

Tuesday, Jun 18, 2013 4:30 PM UTC 156
Video, Abortion, abortion ban

Samantha Bee faces down the gay lobby

The "Daily Show" correspondent exposes the intolerance of gay people working to secure basic rights in the U.S. VIDEO

Tuesday, Jun 18, 2013 3:55 PM UTC 21
Video, Gay Rights, LGBT Rights

What “The Bling Ring” gets wrong about Valley girls

Their obsession with designer labels has a purpose: They want to feel equal to the rich and famous

Tuesday, Jun 18, 2013 3:43 PM UTC

Pentagon to begin training women for elite combat roles by 2015

The Pentagon will announce a schedule to begin the transition on Tuesday, according to reports

Tuesday, Jun 18, 2013 1:21 PM UTC 27
women, women in combat, combat

From “Bling Ring” to Oprah, “The Secret” lives on

In this era of class immobility, the self-help book looks less relevant than ever -- but don't count it out yet VIDEO

Tuesday, Jun 18, 2013 12:00 AM UTC 71
Video, Emma Watson

I’m still angry about the affair

Three years later, I'm furious. Why now?

Tuesday, Jun 18, 2013 12:00 AM UTC 58
Since You Asked, Marriage

Looking to the mother I barely knew

My gay father raised me, but I felt a truer kinship with my mother

Tuesday, Jun 18, 2013 12:00 AM UTC 18
Motherhood, Fatherhood

Chicago firefighters charged with attempted rape of an unconscious woman

One man attempted to assault the unconscious woman while another man acted as his "lookout," prosecutors say VIDEO

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 9:29 PM UTC 30
Video, Rape, Sexual assault

No one understands how hard it is to be Glenn Beck, says Glenn Beck

Beck is practically ruining his life trying to "fundamentally transform the media" and save America, so back off VIDEO

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 8:14 PM UTC 40
Video, Glenn Beck

Five major takeaways from Edward Snowden Q&A

The NSA whistle-blower took questions on what's already transpired and what's happening next

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 7:29 PM UTC 81
snowden, NSA, National security

Bloomberg’s Siri joke slights female engineers

His comment that Stanford grads should come to New York to date girls leaves a lot of women out

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 6:56 PM UTC 10
Bloomberg, Siri, Stanford

Women make up 50 percent of NASA’s incoming team of astronauts

The new batch of astronauts represents the highest percentage of female candidates ever selected by NASA

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 6:46 PM UTC
NASA, Space, Space Travel

Why didn’t anyone help?

When Nigella Lawson's husband had his hand around her throat, how come no one stepped in?

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 6:31 PM UTC 198
nigella lawson

How our brains separate empathy from disgust

An injured rat, and our responses to it, offers clues to the adaptive nature of human behavior

, Scientific American Monday, Jun 17, 2013 5:39 PM UTC
Scientific American, rats

Poland’s first openly gay MP assaulted during pride event

MP Robert Biedron was harassed, spat on and kicked in the stomach at Warsaw's gay pride march

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 4:55 PM UTC
Gay Rights, LGBT Rights, Poland

Carl Hart: Drugs don’t turn people into criminals

The "High Price" author argues drugs have become an easy scapegoat for deeper problems related to poverty and race

, AlterNet Monday, Jun 17, 2013 4:20 PM UTC 19
AlterNet, Carl Hart, High Price

Miss Utah bombs while answering question about gender wage gap

A rambling response about how to "create education better" from Marissa Powell is making the Internet rounds VIDEO

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 3:52 PM UTC 39
Video, miss usa, Gender

What looming DOMA ruling means for immigration reform

A SCOTUS ruling against DOMA may render a Senate decision to exclude gay couples from immigration reform moot

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 3:28 PM UTC
DoMA, Gay Marriage, prop 8, SCOTUS

TSA agent allegedly tells teenage girl to “cover herself”

And the girl's dad, Boing Boing editor Mark Frauenfelder, fights back

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 2:33 PM UTC 95

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