Posts Tagged ‘health’
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…
Tags: health, sex ed
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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…
Tags: feminism, gender equality, health, health care
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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…
Tags: Campus Progress, health, Jocelyn Elders, Kathy Dahlkemper
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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…
Tags: Charles Blow, health, right-wing punditry, sex, young people
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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…
Tags: feminism, gender equality, health, health care, reproductive rights
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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…
Tags: feminism, health, Joe Biden, Nicholas Kristof, Women
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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…
Tags: George W. Bush, health, labor
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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…
Tags: bioethic, health, health care, science, stem cell research
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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…
Tags: Barack Obama, health, health care, inequality, politics, Rahm Emanuel
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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…
Tags: Barack Obama, health
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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…
Tags: health, Internet, tech
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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…
Tags: Barack Obama, environment, health, politics, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., science
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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…
Tags: corn, economy, environment, food, health, science
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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…
Tags: health, LGBT, reproductive rights, war on drugs
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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…
Tags: gender equality, health, healthcare, Women
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