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Kuzma/Shutterstock Facebook and Apple Will Pay for Employees to Freeze Their Eggs
The procedure, for a long time available only to the very wealthy, is making its way to cultural normalcy.
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YouTube This Is My Voice: YouTube and the Transgender Autobiography
The serial nature of vlogging makes it the perfect way for people to take control of their own stories, and document the process of transitioning as it happens.
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Hadi Mizban/AP ISIS Is Now Bragging About Enslaving Women and Children
In its English-language magazine, the organization issues a religious justification for its treatment of the Yazidis.
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Giampiero Sposito/Reuters The Vatican's New Stance Toward Gays and Divorcees
"Homosexuals have gifts and qualities to offer to the Christian community," bishops wrote in a report recently released from Rome.
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Thomas8047/Flickr/The Atlantic Dating Is a Numbers Game
Sam Yagan, CEO of Match and a founder of OkCupid, explains the proliferation of dating sites and why he thinks everyone should be looking for love online.
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Showtime Homeland: The Case Against Carrie
TV deserves a better female antihero.
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Getting Married/Flickr Can Sex Be Just a Little Bit Sinful?
At the Vatican's synod on the family this week, bishops have suggested that the theological idea of graduality can help the Church reframe its approach to sexuality. What does this mean?
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Randy Aquilizan/Flickr Getting Pregnant When One Partner Has HIV
In "mixed-status" couples, the path to conception is often fraught with medical and legal obstacles.
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Kimberly White/Reuters Are Gay-Marriage Bans a Form of Sexism?
A federal judge argues that barring people from marrying who they want because of their gender is unconstitutional. It's a promising but imperfect case.
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Doug Mills/AP The Awkward Clinton-Era Debate Over 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
A trove of documents released on Friday offers a new look at the 1990s compromise on gays in the military.
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Jim Young/Reuters The Safer, More Affordable Abortion Only Available in Two States
Medicated abortions provided via telemedicine can help bring down costs and get women care earlier in their pregnancies, but opponents have blocked them throughout the country.
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Robert Galbraith/Reuters Microsoft's CEO and the Worst Career Advice Imaginable
Trust the system, said person for whom the system worked.
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Paulo Whitaker/Reuters Do Quotas for Female Politicians Work?
30 percent of Brazilian candidates must be women. But far fewer actually get elected.
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Illustrations by Jackie Lay The Unsafety Net: How Social Media Turned Against Women
Under the banner of free speech, companies like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have been host to rape videos and revenge porn—which makes female users feel anything but free.
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Dave Herholz/Flickr The Team That Invented the Birth-Control Pill
Anticipating the challenges the pill would face, the biologist heading the project chose for his partner a doctor who was well-liked, good-looking, and, most importantly, Catholic.
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ABC TV's Renaissance for Strong Women Is Happening in a Surprising Place
Old-fashioned networks, not buzzy cable channels, are producing more boundary-breaking heroines like Viola Davis's character on ABC's How to Get Away With Murder. Why?
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Larry Downing/Reuters Why Is Anthony Kennedy Pausing Gay Weddings Now?
The justice is known as a friend of LGBT rights, but he issued an emergency stay of same-sex marriages in Idaho.
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John Locher/AP Anthony Kennedy's Barrier to the Latest Advance for Gay Marriage
The Supreme Court justice temporarily blocked an appeals court ruling striking down same-sex-marriage bans in Idaho and Nevada.
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Max Rossi/Reuters Will the Church Stop Shaming People Who 'Live in Sin'?
At the Vatican's synod in Rome, some Catholic clergy and congregants are calling for changes in how homosexuality, premarital sex, and contraception are discussed.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters Jennifer Lawrence Shames Nude-Photo Thieves, via Nude Photo Shoot
Featuring several diamonds, two breasts, and one extremely awkward cockatoo, her Vanity Fair cover underscores what made the hacking so outrageous: lack of consent.
