Gender and Sexuality

Leading Cornell Doctor Performing Genital Cutting

Leading Cornell Doctor Performing Genital Cutting Leading Cornell Doctor Performing Genital Cutting

Who’d have thought a celebrated Ivy League medical center would be practicing genital cutting on small children?

Jun 21, 2010 / StudentNation / Carrie Battan

The Kids Are Just Fine, Thanks The Kids Are Just Fine, Thanks

The organization that funded research bashing donor conception fights against marriage rights for same-sex couples. Should what they say about non-traditional families be trusted?

Jun 18, 2010 / Emily Douglas

Mama Grizzlies to Working Moms: Drop Dead

Mama Grizzlies to Working Moms: Drop Dead Mama Grizzlies to Working Moms: Drop Dead

Fresh faces aside, the Republican Party's stance on the issues that matter to working mothers is as regressive as it's ever been.

Jun 16, 2010 / Betsy Reed

Katrina vanden Heuvel and Melissa Harris-Lacewell: The Year of the Woman? Katrina vanden Heuvel and Melissa Harris-Lacewell: The Year of the Woman?

Katrina vanden Heuvel and Melissa Harris-Lacewell join host Laura Flanders in studio to kick off The Nation on Grit TV. 

Jun 14, 2010 / The Nation on Grit TV

The Breakdown: On ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Repeal, What Are We Waiting For?

The Breakdown: On ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Repeal, What Are We Waiting For? The Breakdown: On ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Repeal, What Are We Waiting For?

Last month, the House of Representatives took steps toward repealing the military's discriminatory DADT policy, pending the results of a Pentagon study on the issue. But what impac...

Jun 4, 2010 / Chris Hayes

Choice v. Freedom? Choice v. Freedom?

The abortion rights cause has suffered by being cut off from the larger story of reproductive and sexual life, which is much more complex than can be captured by either "cho...

Jun 2, 2010 / Katha Pollitt

When Teen Pregnancy Is No Accident

When Teen Pregnancy Is No Accident When Teen Pregnancy Is No Accident

We blame girls—but it's the boys who are sabotaging attempts at safer sex, studies suggest.

May 24, 2010 / Lynn Harris

Irony Alert: Another Advocate for Abstinence Quits Congress After His Failure to Abstain is Revealed Irony Alert: Another Advocate for Abstinence Quits Congress After His Failure to Abstain is Revealed

An Indiana congressman had a lot to say about how others should have sex, until he got caught having sex with someone other than his wife.

May 22, 2010 / John Nichols

Rand Paul: ‘Principled Libertarian’? Not. Rand Paul: ‘Principled Libertarian’? Not.

The Kentucky crackpot wants less regulation on businesses, but more regulation on women's health.

May 22, 2010 / Katha Pollitt

Pedophilia is Fine, but Hold the Abortion Pedophilia is Fine, but Hold the Abortion

A nun in Phoenix has been ex-communicated after approving a life-saving abortion. What?

May 21, 2010 / Laura Flanders

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