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Bruno Domingos / Reuters How Gay Marriage Became a Constitutional Right
The untold story of the improbable campaign that finally tipped the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Move Over, Shakespeare—Science Has Insights Into Love, Too
The notion of using scientific methods to illuminate matters of the heart was once ridiculed, but has been vindicated in recent years.
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Evan Vucci / AP The Senate's Bathroom-Stall Index
One measure of America’s slow progress toward boosting the number of women in elective office is the number of toilets in the congressional restrooms.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters LGBT Activists Are Still Fighting
Same-sex marriage is now a national right, but advocates for transgender detainees under U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are pushing for further reform.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters My Son’s Boyfriend Is Not His ‘Friend’
How the language surrounding gay relationships is changing with social mores
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ABC The Modern Family Effect: Pop Culture’s Role in the Gay-Marriage Revolution
TV has convinced America that same-sex couples can be just like straight ones. What’s next?
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Andrew Harnik / AP The U.S. Supreme Court Fulfills Its Promises on Same-Sex Marriage
In Obergefell v. Hodge, the justices complete a process they began, almost without knowing it, in 1996.
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Noah Berger / AP It Is Accomplished
A pioneering advocate of gay marriage responds to the Supreme Court’s historic ruling.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP 'Love Is Love': Americans Celebrate Marriage Equality
From small counties in Texas to the White House, politicians and candidates are responding to Friday’s historic ruling on same-sex marriage.
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Loren Holmes / AP Where Girls Are Missing Out on High-School Sports
Gender inequality in athletics exists at thousands of campuses across the country—and it’s concentrated in one region in particular.
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Shannon Boxx The Soccer Moms
Until 20 years ago, women players who wanted to start a family would quit their careers. But more athletes are stepping up to the challenge of balancing motherhood with their love of the game.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters After Same-Sex Marriage, Then What?
On discrimination and religious-liberty claims, the battle for equal rights is far from over.
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Walt Disney Studios Revisiting Pocahontas at 20
The movie has attracted considerable criticism, but its impact on how Disney heroines are portrayed is notable.
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Simon & Schuster The Mystery of Marriage
A new book is a cultural scrapbook on the resilience of a fraught institution.
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Living Simply With a Flip Phone
It's quite possible to live and date in New York without a smartphone.
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Michael Kraus / Shutterstock An IUD in Every Uterus
A new study finds that telling providers to teach women about the benefits of IUDs and implants makes a big difference in unplanned births. But not every woman who wants one can get one.
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Elisa Glass / The Atlantic Unequal Pay: The Gay Wage Gap
Why is it widest for some of the highest-paying jobs?
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Why Are Fewer American Women Getting Abortions?
Though the political debate in the U.S. has stagnated, the rate of procedures performed has been in decline since 1990.
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Kim Hong-Ji / Reuters The Institution of Marriage: Still Going Strong
Despite stereotypes to the contrary, America’s young people embrace the idea of marriage, though they understand it to mean something different than it once did.
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The Atlantic ‘You've Come a Long Way, Baby’: The Lag Between Advertising and Feminism
Even at the height of ‘women’s liberation,’ products aimed to female consumers were actually marketed to men.
