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HBO's Looking: Not 'the Ultimate Gay Show About All Gay People'
The series' executive producers discuss the challenge of creating a show that's both universally relatable and authentic to its writers' experiences.
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Flickr Battle of the Sexes: Men's Political Giving Dwarfs Women's
What does the giving gap mean for politics?
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Eleaf/flickr How Not to Write an Online Dating Message
Six trite, absurd, insulting, expressions of the soul-sucking vortex known as humanity
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How Parents Can Turn Frozen's Big Twist Into a Teachable Moment
The Disney movie's dark take on Prince Charming offers what Cinderella or The Little Mermaid don't: a chance to talk to my young kids about love and relationships.
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Jan Sonnenmair The Plight of Single Moms—and the Policies That Would Help
Low-income women and single mothers are more likely to live with financial stress and regret, but they're also more optimistic about their prospects.
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Lucy Maude Ellis/flickr The Difficulty of Getting an Abortion in Texas
Can pro-choice groups prove that the state has made it too hard to terminate a pregnancy?
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2014: The Year TV Starts Atoning for Its Lack of Diversity?
Saturday Night Live and Looking offer reasons to be tentatively optimistic.
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Reuters Why Is Kirsten Gillibrand's Military Sexual-Assault Bill Stalled Out?
Her proposal—the stronger of two under consideration—is struggling to get the 60 votes necessary to overcome a filibuster.
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MTV The 16 and Pregnant Paradox: Warning or Endorsement?
Two new studies on teen-mom programming suggest the shows reduce teen births but glorify early parenthood.
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Barbara Reis It Is Expensive to Be Poor
Minimum-wage jobs are physically demanding, have unpredictable schedules, and pay so meagerly that workers can’t save up enough to move on.
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Jim Mone/AP Photo Tech's Gender and Race Gap Starts in High School
A look at who takes the Advanced Placement computer science exam—and who doesn't
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Barbara Kinney Why American Women Aren't Living as Long as They Should
New research shows that life expectancies for women in other first-world countries are rising faster than those of U.S. women. And the lives of poor women are even shorter.
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flickr The Rise and Fall—and Rise—of Facial Hair
There was a time when the best option was to wear both sideburns and a mustache.
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Pew Research Center How People in Muslim Countries Think Women Should Dress
One of the region's most liberal societies prefers one of the more conservative head coverings
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Barbara Ries The U.S. Economy Does Not Value Caregivers
Providers of physical and spiritual care are just as indispensable to our society as providers of income. So why don't we treat them that way?
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Shutterstock/The Everett Collection The Poverty Line Was Designed Assuming Every Family Had a Housewife Who Was a 'Skillful Cook'
Consider this a lesson about taking statistics at face value.
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Does Prince Charming Really Need to Be Reinvented?
Critics call Frozen's twist on the fairytale trope a much-needed corrective, but claiming Disney dreamboats are unrealistic or unhealthy just piles more shame onto young girls' fantasies.
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Sierra Leone's Fight for Gender Equality
A short documentary explores the role of women in Sierra Leonean politics.
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Barbara Kinney The Female Face of Poverty
Fifty years after the War on Poverty began, millions of women are still struggling to get by.
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Netflix How Pretty Little Liars Redeems the Pop-Culture Mean Girl
ABC Family’s teen murder-thriller reminds viewers that there’s overlapping territory between “mean girls” and “nice girls”—and that cliques aren’t always forces for evil.
