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Today’s Teenagers Are Not That Promiscuous, Really

By Emily Rutherford - Jan 28th, 2009 at 3:02 pm

According to The New York Times, reports of my generation’s sex-having have been greatly exaggerated:
Today, fewer than half of all high school students have…

Renal Gender Bias

By L. Russell Allen - Jan 27th, 2009 at 6:00 pm

We all know that women are more likely to be paid less for the same work as their male counterparts. We know that women have…

Things to Read: Interviews and Defunct Magazines

By Kay Steiger - Jan 9th, 2009 at 3:27 pm

Over at Campus Progress this week we have several interesting articles. CP’s publications associate, David Spett, interviews freshman Congresswoman Kathy Dahlkemper, a pro-life Democrat from…

OMG Hooking Up!

By Kay Steiger - Dec 15th, 2008 at 5:24 pm

So says the New York Times opinion column from this weekend by Charles Blow (heh, blow). Apparently Blow thinks that this strange thing known as…

Yes, the Proposed HHS Regulation Is Sexist

By Kay Steiger - Dec 2nd, 2008 at 3:25 pm

The Los Angeles Times has a good recap of a Health and Human Services regulation that’s bad news for women (Planned Parenthood has a petition…

One Reason To Like Joe Biden

By Daniel Strauss - Dec 1st, 2008 at 12:34 pm

Sure he talks a lot and says some things that I’m still trying to digest but then Vice President-elect Joe Biden pushes legislation for women’s…

How much more evil? None more evil.

By Jamelle Bouie - Dec 1st, 2008 at 12:05 pm

With less than two months left in office, President Bush is trying to cram in as much as possible, which–apparently–includes safeguarding the right of businesses…

Stem Cell Research is Back, Baby

By Jesse Singal - Nov 24th, 2008 at 12:21 pm

From the AP:
When the Bush presidency ends, opponents of embryonic stem cell research will face a new political reality that many feel powerless to…

Syzygy

By Nick Sifuentes - Nov 21st, 2008 at 10:38 am

Not only is it an awesome word that I never get to use, but it also describes the current state of the healthcare debate. Watch…

Obama: Gym Rat

By Kay Steiger - Nov 20th, 2008 at 3:15 pm

President-elect Barack Obama may be our healthiest president ever (well, except for that whole smoking thing), since, as Mike Scherer stalks reports in a post…

Is Your Computer Slowly Killing You?

By Jesse Singal - Nov 20th, 2008 at 10:42 am

The MacArthur Foundation just released a study on teen Internet usage, reports The New York Times. Since it “describes new-media usage but does not measure…

RFK Jr. Would Make a Terrible Head of the EPA

By Nick Sifuentes - Nov 14th, 2008 at 4:55 pm

Rumors are swirling that the Obama transition team may be eyeing Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to head up the Environmental Protection Agency. Despite his left-leaning…

Strangled By Corn

By Jesse Singal - Nov 13th, 2008 at 6:02 pm

Effect Measure has an interesting post highlighting a study that used stable isotope analysis (I totally know what this means but, um, don’t want to…

A Few Notes on State Measures

By Emily Rutherford - Nov 5th, 2008 at 6:24 pm

Aside from the obligatory excitement concerning the presidency:

Congratulations to California, which defeated a proposition requiring parental consent for minors seeking abortions.

Congratulations to South…

Women and the Individual Health Insurance Market

By Kay Steiger - Oct 30th, 2008 at 5:25 pm

Via Megan at Jezebel. So the New York Times reports something that I wrote about last week: The individual health insurance market is much more…