• Morning Reads: Obamacare Day One and a Governor Mansplains
    October 2, 2013
    A look at what we're reading this AM at Moyers & Company.
  • Ancient Attitudes Overturned in Fifty Years
    February 28, 2013 | Group Think

    Of all the goals that feminists have been working towards for the past five decades, arguably they’ve made the most progress in the realm of sexual freedom. Contrary to popular belief, the sexual revolution was well underway when “women’s libbers" came around, but feminists demanded and largely succeeded in convincing the public that, in the interest of fairness, women had to have the same freedom to plot their own sexual destinies as men. Technological and legal ...

  • Behind the 'War on Mothers'
    April 19, 2012
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    Cultural scholar Stephanie Coontz talks about the realities behind the rhetoric.
  • Blunt Responses to the Blunt Amendment
    March 2, 2012
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    Yesterday’s debate on the Respect for Rights of Conscience Act introduced by Senator Ray Blunt (R-Mo.) didn’t take long to heat up.
  • Defending Freedom of and From Religion
    February 16, 2012
    A Bill Moyers Essay: How do we honor religious liberty without it becoming the liberty to impose moral beliefs on others?
  • The Battle Over Birth Control
    February 9, 2012
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    In less than a week, another women's health issue erupts over a rule forcing Catholic institutions to offer birth control to employees.