Can I get some comprehensive sex ed in the house? It's disturbing that a quarter of young people aged 18-29 believe that doubling up on condoms -- which I just learned is called "double-bagging" -- works better, according to a new report by the National...
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Nobody enjoys being sick, but ongoing health problems can have a bigger impact on kids than going quickly through a box of Kleenex. A new study, "Healthier Students Are Better Learners," being released today by The Campaign for Educational Equity at...
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In 2002, Mukhtar Mai was gang raped in Pakistan on the orders of a village tribunal. This was meant as punishment for her 12-year-old brother's alleged crime of holding hands with a girl of a higher caste, intended to shame and silence their family....
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Since today is International Women's Day, it seems like a perfect time to call attention to the particular burden immigrant women face. Given that women disproportionately fill the ranks of the poor and are more likely to be single parents, when legal...
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Dick Armey, the head of FreedomWorks and a key leader in the Tea Party movement, doesn't want to set out the good china for nativist forces. And he's particularly turned off by Tom Tancredo, who hankers for a "civics literacy test" out of the Jim Crow...
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Jeff Schwilk, leader of the nativist extremist group the San Diego Minutemen (SDMM), just can't seem to keep his misogynistic, racist mouth in check. Schwilk was first hit with a defamation suit for circulating photos of Joanne Yoon, a 24-year-old student...
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In his International Women's Day 2010 message, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urges: "Let us work with renewed determination for a future of equal rights, equal opportunities and progress for all." March 8th, International Women's Day,...
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For the first time since Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) decided last year to collaborate on a bipartisan proposal for immigration reform, President Barack Obama is going to sit down at their table and talk change. Obama's promise...
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At eight years old, when most little girls are playing with dolls and stickers, Nujood Ali was making her way to a Yemeni courthouse to demand a divorce from an older husband who regularly beat and raped her. Her groundbreaking win at age 10 set the...
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Qing Hong Wu was set to be deported for crimes he committed as a teenager, despite having served his sentence and fashioned himself into a model citizen -- but New York Governor David Paterson has stepped in with a pardon. Wu's case demonstrates a serious...
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