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Angry White Man Explains It All
The author of a book about Nickelodeon thinks women and minorities are ruining the children's network.
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20th Century Fox 'Til Death Do Us Part': Marriage Is the True Terror of Gone Girl
The most important part of the film's message is neither misogynistic nor feminist; it's about what happens when two people are bound together, forever.
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Adas Israel When Your Rabbi Comes Out as Gay
Or, we live in remarkable times
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Lucy Nicholson/Reuters The Same-Sex Marriage Fight Is Over
By refusing to take a stand on lower-court decisions, the justices have effectively settled the fight—in favor of gays and lesbians who want to marry.
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Susan Walsh/AP The Supreme Court Quietly Allows Same-Sex Marriage in 5 States
The justices declined to hear appeals of lower-court rulings that struck down marriage bans in Indiana, Utah, Oklahoma, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
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Frank Muto/Courtesy of LBJ Library What's the Point of a First Lady?
Fifty years ago, Lady Bird Johnson transformed the role of presidential spouse from hostess to political powerhouse, but the job is due for another reinvention.
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Paramount/Wikimedia Commons 'What Women Want': A Brief History
Whether you blame it on Alex Trebek or on Mel Gibson, it's a silly idea with deep roots.
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Molly Riley/Reuters The Wait Continues for the Next Big Same-Sex-Marriage Case
The Supreme Court took no action on a series of high-profile petitions concerning gay marriage laws, but it did accept 10 new cases for the fall term.
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Stephen Lam/Reuters Is Support for Gay Marriage Dropping? Don’t Count On It
A Pew poll last week showed a small dip, but the overall trend—and more importantly, the underlying fundamentals—haven't changed.
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Kevin Lamarque/Reuters The American Family Is Making a Comeback
Marriage is on the decline, birthrates are down, and divorce rates are high. But politicians in both parties are finally putting forth proposals to help—and strengthen society.
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ABC Selfie's Challenge: The Inherent Creepiness of Pygmalion in 2014
ABC's new sitcom revives the century-old tale of a man telling a woman how to behave. Hopefully, it subverts it.
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Lucas Jackson/Reuters The Gender Politics of Pockets
The iPhone 6 may be the great catalyst in including this oft-ignored aspect of women's fashion.
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torbakhopper HE DEAD/Flickr The Recession's Baby Bust
At least a half-million fewer Americans were born as a result of the 2008 crisis.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Reuters Eric Holder's Expansive Vision of Civil Rights
The attorney general has worked to include LGBT rights and other issues under the definition.
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Amazon Pop Culture's Transgender Moment: Why Online TV Is Leading the Way
Business smarts and broader social change have encouraged Netflix and Amazon to offer complex portrayals of long-marginalized people.
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Reuters Where Girls Get Kidnapped on Their Way to School
Throughout the developing world, young women don't always make it safely to the schoolhouse door, much less get a decent education inside. The Clinton Foundation is hoping to change that.
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Cathal McNaughton/Reuters The Economic Case for Paternity Leave
Giving new moms paid time off only goes so far.
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MIke Kline/Flickr When Bosses Discriminate Against Pregnant Women
In 2006, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission received nearly 5,000 complaints from new moms—a 30 percent increase from the previous decade.
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Nick McPhee/Flickr Will 'Cisgender' Survive?
The linguistic complement to "transgender" has achieved some popularity, but faces social and political obstacles to dictionary coronation.
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Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters No, Hope Solo Is Not "Like" Ray Rice
To say the female soccer star accused of assault is the same as the football player who pummeled his fiancé erases the historical truth about domestic violence.
