After the first Presidential debate, Governor Romney slashed President Obama's lead with women likely voters in swing states. A Gallup poll had the two candidates effectively tied, with Obama at 48 percent and Romney at 47 percent. After last night, I have a funny feeling that Obama has...

On this International Women's day, feminists in the US can be forgiven for feeling less than enthusiastic. Our nation has spent the better part of 2012 arguing over whether using birth control is a responsible idea we should encourage or whether it makes you a "slut." Republican presidential candidate Rick...

Liberals are hard on the Democratic Party. This is a fact. The criticism may be correct, and it may be well-deserved (count how many Democrats voted for unconstitutional detention provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act), but there's no denying the fact that the Democratic Party has to...

There is an episode of the original series of Star Trek in which the crew of the Enterprise gets swapped into a parallel universe due to transporter malfunction. In this Mirrorverse, good people are evil, right is wrong, logic is replaced with ambition, and Spock has a beard.

The...

It looked to be a typical Sunday night. But as I was settling down to prepare for final exams, my friend nearly broke my door down.

"BIN LADEN'S DEAD!" These three words took me a minute to process; I hadn't been expecting -- or even thinking about expecting --...

Back in the halcyon days immediately after the 2008 elections, Republicans, running scared from their defeat at the ballot box, invested some time in pretending to care about diversity. They loudly feted rising "stars" in the party like Michael Steele and Sarah Palin to showcase the GOP's -- theoretical --...

There is a lot of blame going around for the rampage in Tucson aimed at Representative Gabrielle Giffords last Saturday, leaving the Congresswoman in critical condition, six others dead, and fourteen wounded. Liberals have pointed to disturbing right-wing violent rhetoric, like Sarah Palin's infamous crosshair map and Glenn...

No matter what part of the political spectrum you look at him from, President Obama has had his ups and downs. Liberals are frustrated by slow progress and broken promises, independents dither over the merits of the health care law, and conservatives are angry about pretty much everything. But regardless...

All right, Democrats. You've had a full week to hide in the corner in the fetal position and frantically avoid any media outlet that's not MSNBC, and I hope you've made good use of it, because it's time to come out of hiding and realistically take stock of the political...

When you think of maternal mortality, what comes to mind?

For me, I think of countries like Afghanistan -- places where the birth rate is almost 6 children per woman, where contraceptives and family planning are not even considered, and where maternal care facilities are almost completely nonexistent because...

Anyone who spends too much time reading about the Cold War (as I do) can be excused for feeling like we're in a time warp lately.

Nearly 20 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, the 1950s atmosphere of conformist paranoia and "Are you now or were you...