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Reproductive freedom also means choosing not to have an abortion

A Texas teenager successfully sues for the right to carry her pregnancy to term

Mary Elizabeth Williams Wednesday, Feb 20, 2013 7:57 PM UTC 81
Life Abortion, Reproductive choice

Dick Cheney and Laura Bush plead support for marriage equality

You don't have to have to be liberal to support same-sex unions. Updated: Bush asks to be removed from ad VIDEO

Mary Elizabeth Williams Wednesday, Feb 20, 2013 4:47 PM UTC 10
Life Video, LGBT, Marriage equality

The coming Rand Paul-Ted Cruz brawl

The Senate may only be big enough for one Tea Party leader

Alex Seitz-Wald Wednesday, Feb 20, 2013 1:00 PM UTC 111
Politics Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Tea Party

Making Mitch McConnell pay

The obstructionist-in-chief's failure to make Obama a one-termer gives him his best chance at survival in '14

Steve Kornacki Wednesday, Feb 20, 2013 12:42 PM UTC
Politics Opening Shot, Mitch McConnell

Lord of the engagement rings

Twice I proposed to women hoping that a fancy band could be enough to convince me we'd last a lifetime

Christian McLaughlin Wednesday, Feb 20, 2013 1:00 AM UTC 34
Life Love and Sex, Marriage

Who should win the Oscars (but probably won’t)

Academy voters: There is still time to repent! In this year's dramatic Oscar race, is one more plot twist coming?

Andrew O'Hehir Tuesday, Feb 19, 2013 6:35 PM UTC 25
Oscars Movies, 2013 oscars, Oscars

Coming out to my wife

When I told her I was bisexual, and fooling around with men, I knew our marriage was doomed. Instead, it opened up

Mark Bentley Cohen Tuesday, Feb 19, 2013 1:00 AM UTC 73
Life Love and Sex, Bisexuality

Want an Oscar? Go to extremes!

In honor of Anne Hathaway's awards-baiting weight loss, we rank cinema's biggest transformations SLIDE SHOW

Mary Elizabeth Williams Monday, Feb 18, 2013 11:00 PM UTC
Oscars slideshow, 2013 academy awards

Chris Kluwe: “Necessary Roughness” gets locker room right

No active NFL player has come out yet. But when it happens, one star says it might look like "Necessary Roughness"

Chris Kluwe Monday, Feb 18, 2013 9:00 PM UTC
Entertainment NFL, Football, LGBT, Television, TV

Thank you for being a friend, Hannah Horvath

Why is TV so enamored of the "Golden Girls" archetypal quartet to explore female friendship?

Meghan Lewit Monday, Feb 18, 2013 5:00 PM UTC 10
Entertainment Editor's Picks, Girls

Mahatma Gandhi: Birth control is criminal!

In an amazing 1939 essay, he argues against "receiving seed" with the intention of letting it "run to waste"

Mahatma Gandhi Monday, Feb 18, 2013 2:45 PM UTC 56
Life Gandhi, Sex, Love and Sex

Dear John McCain: Ted Cruz isn’t what’s wrong with the Senate, you are

Longtime example of everything awful about the U.S. Senate says a colleague is ruining everything by being rude

Alex Pareene Monday, Feb 18, 2013 12:45 PM UTC 81
Politics Politics, U.S. Senate

“Downton Abbey” recap: “I just can’t see a happy ending”

And for our season finale, why not have another one bite the dust

Willa Paskin Monday, Feb 18, 2013 3:40 AM UTC 85
Entertainment Downton Abbey

“Girls” recap: Ray wants his “Little Women” back

Ray's pursuit of his treasured copy of the sister tale leads to a weird anti-bromance with Adam on Staten Island

Lizzie Skurnick Monday, Feb 18, 2013 3:30 AM UTC
Entertainment HBO, Girls, Lena Dunham

Confessions of a pot addict

After 13 years of daily use, I stopped smoking weed. But quitting only made me feel better about the drug

M. Welch Monday, Feb 18, 2013 2:00 AM UTC 157
Life marijuana, Drugs, addiction

“The Dinner”: The Dutch answer to “Gone Girl”? Maybe not, but no less thrilling

Two couples meet at a fancy restaurant in this fiendish and merciless international best-seller

Laura Miller Monday, Feb 18, 2013 12:00 AM UTC
Entertainment What to Read, Fiction, The Dinner

Dermot Mulroney: “I forced myself on Mike White and wound up with a part”

With a spate of guest roles on "New Girl," "Enlightened," and "SNL," the actor reveals his "big fat joke" side

Willa Paskin Sunday, Feb 17, 2013 9:00 PM UTC
Entertainment dermot mulroney, TV, Television

Why are men so foolish?

Women might be less competitive, but studies show they're also smarter candidates, stock pickers and more

Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman Sunday, Feb 17, 2013 6:00 PM UTC 48
Life Gender, Gender Roles, Books

Sheriff Joe’s posse invades Guadalupe

The controversial sheriff puts his "good guys" with guns around Arizona schools. They might be the real threat

Chris Feliciano Arnold Sunday, Feb 17, 2013 12:00 PM UTC 146
News Joe Arpaio, Gun Control, NRA

The “labia pride” movement

Rebelling against the porn aesthetic, women are taking to the Internet to sing the praises of "endowed" women

Tracy Clark-Flory Sunday, Feb 17, 2013 1:00 AM UTC 111
Life Love and Sex, Sex, labiaplasty

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