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Katie McDonough is Salon's politics writer, focusing on gender, sexuality and reproductive justice. Follow her on Twitter @kmcdonovgh or email her at kmcdonough@salon.com.

Ellen Pao (Reuters/Robert Galbraith)

No more “female chip” on her shoulder: Ellen Pao lost her case — but still might change her industry

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Amanda Knox (Reuters/Andrew Kelly)

America’s Amanda Knox tunnel vision: Why we refuse to apply the same scrutiny to our own legal system

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Woody Allen (AP/Matt Sayles)

Woody Allen’s thin artistic veil: Mariel Hemingway’s memoir is just the latest glimpse into the director’s life

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More treatment, less jails: Incarcerating pregnant women for drug use is dangerous, not compassionate

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Tucker Carlson (Fox News)

“In the spirit of helpful correction”: Tucker Carlson and the everyday sexism of policing women’s tone

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"Neighbors" (Universal Pictures)

“You hold women in contempt”: Frat culture isn’t an aberration, it’s everything men learn about being a “real man”

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Shame of sexist frat boys: The real reason why their horrible behavior won’t change

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Why millions of women can’t “take control” of their health: You shouldn’t have to be a rich celeb to get care

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(AP/Joshua Roberts/Lm Otero/Sara D. Davis/Photo montage by Salon)

In data we trust: Can the numbers on birth control & the economy strike a blow to the GOP’s war on women?

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(Dreamworks)

You can’t ban douchebaggery: Kill the frats, sure, but you can’t stop entitled white bros

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Lena Dunham (AP/Charles Sykes/Salon)

The interior lives of girls (and “Girls”): Lena Dunham tells Salon about “Eloise” as inspiration & the genius of Hilary Knight

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The rise of Big Breast Milk: A boon for healthy babies or exploitative of low-income mothers?

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Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) (Reuters/Joshua Roberts)

“Enormous harm being done”: Congress punts on trafficking the same day two men are arrested on trafficking charges

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(AP/Gene J. Puskar)

If you’re shocked by this Penn State frat’s nude photo ring, you’re not paying attention

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(AP/Joshua Roberts/Lm Otero/Sara D. Davis/Photo montage by Salon)

Cut their paychecks and take away their healthcare! The GOP’s insane plan to woo women in 2016

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Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Jeb Bush (Reuters/Carlo Allegri/Jim Young/Photo montage by Salon)

“We just agreed we would disagree”: Jeb Bush & the Catholic Church’s “culture of life” hypocrisy

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Eric Schmidt (Reuters/Shannon Stapleton)

Lean back, Eric Schmidt! How interrupting men & unconscious bias are killing women’s careers

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Ambivalent about kids or terrified of going broke? What our lack of paid family leave means for young people

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Katie Pavlich (Fox News)

“Modern feminism can’t survive without victims”: Why rape survivors terrify Fox News & the gun lobby

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“She was human, she was not an experiment”: A pregnant patient’s right to die should not be a matter of debate

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Ellen Pao (Reuters/Robert Galbraith)

Ball-busters who “kill the buzz”: Why the Ellen Pao case is a master class in sexism disguised as “culture fit”

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(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-59335p1.html'>Julian Rovagnati</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Mandatory anesthesia for fetuses? Proposed abortion restriction takes anti-choice pseudoscience to new low

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David Boren, president of the University of Oklahoma (AP/Sue Ogrocki/Nick Oxford/Photo montage by Salon)

How racist frat boys get away with it: Big money and the real Sigma Alpha Epsilon scandal

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Jameis Winston, Roger Goodell (AP/David J. Phillip/David Goldman)

Why Jameis Winston’s secret meeting with Roger Goodell means we can expect more of the same from the NFL

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