I've taken the Amtrak to and from New York many a time, and it never occurred to me to worry about needing to prove that I'm legally permitted in the United States. After all, it's not like I was trying to cross the border into Canada or anything. But...
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Girls have long battled sexist stereotypes about their academic prowess, particularly in the field of mathematical ability. A Kaplan, LA, middle school implemented single-sex classes under the rationale that girls are "content to simply observe" in class...
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I recently wrote that legislators in no less than 22 states want to follow in Arizona's footsteps on SB 1070, which requires police to check immigration papers in case of "reasonable suspicion" of undocumented status. Meanwhile, under the federal government's...
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Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, France's first lady, caught Iran's attention by publicly speaking out against the stoning of a mother for adultery. (Though international outcry spared Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani this punishment, she still awaits execution by hanging.)...
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When conservatives are looking to play the blame-game regarding what they refer to as the decline of the "traditional family," feminists, LGBT persons, and Hollywood liberal elites are generally on the dice. But Alex Henderson writes on Alternet that...
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Year in and year out, legislators think of new and exciting ways to impose control over a woman's body ... or they just try, try again to pass the old and uncreative means of letting women know we were silly to consider our bodies our own. While we're...
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