The NY Times is a repeat competitor in the let's shove women into boxes olympics. This week's entry: the Magazine's article about people who remain abstinent into their teens...people at Harvard (gasp!). Melinda Henneberger* gets to the heart of my complaints on XX factor. In...
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The NY Times ran an article today chronicling a spate of prosecutions in Alabama of women who carry a child to term despite a drug addiction. Greg Gambril, a local.
The NY Times has unveiled "Kristen." I have to say, the decision to reveal her identity publicly makes me somewhat uncomfortable -- she will now be branded as the woman.
Certainly no longer the big news of the day (if it ever was), but the Times editorial board got on the Prison Nation bandwagon today with a damn good editorial. The editorial touches on the issues of cost that I have been raising:Nationwide, the prison...
In today's Times (in the Styles section, of course), Pamela Paul discusses Doulas. She is sure to document the problems that can arise when a doula is not a good.
When I picked up the New York Times last weekend, I thumbed through the sections, skimming the headlines and plotting out my reading plan. That is, until I came upon.
This one from the NY Times:"Tainted Drugs Tied to Maker of Abortion Pill"Based on that headline, you'd think all the company does is make abortion pills, and that it was those abortion pills (AKA RU-486) that were tainted.But no. Here's the article lede:A huge state-owned...
The Slate Legal Ladies make quick work of wingnut M. Edward Whelan's bully-style critiques of NY Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse, and of the Times's seeming inability to fully.
It's a simple rule of middle school math: correlation does not equal causation. So why is it that when it comes to pregnancy, reporters, doctors and researchers let this simple.
Caitlin Flanagan, she of the career-woman hating hypocrisy, continues to get bigger stages from which to spew her candy-coated reactionary guck (she used to be one of the only female staff writers at the New Yorker). Today's venue: the New York Times, which is really...
Judith Warner is on a wave-making roll with her Domestic Disturbances column in the NY Times. Today she takes on the voice quiver heard 'round the world and asks: why.
Bill Kristol's got his first column up in the Times today. And he comes out swinging. His column's main point: Huckabee might be the best nominee the GOP has to.