When Mirna Cunningham joined Nicaragua's Sandinista revolution more than 20 years ago, she did so in the hope of bringing health care, education and basic human rights to the nation's women, and esp...
One clear sign of a lively debate about journalistic ethics is the ongoing questioning of the principle of objectivity. Many believe that this tenet of American journalism has morphed into a false b...
As Rachel Lloyd tells it, the adolescent women in her story are no different from any other teenagers—they want to feel pretty and they want to feel good about themselves. But there is a difference....
In a classic “say what?” moment last week, President George W. Bush appointed an anti-birth control, anti-sex education doctor to head the federal family planning program. The good news: leaders on ...
I see my aunts and cousins and grandparents in these people’s faces. I take it very personally. It angers me when I see the lack of accountability. — Nsombi Lambright
Nsombi Lambright is passionat...
A military judge in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, yesterday sentenced U.S. Army Spec. James P. Barker to life in prison with the possibility of parole. Barker had pled guilty to 16 crimes related to the gang rape and premeditated murder of 14-year-old Abeer Al-Janabi and her family in Mahmoudiya, Iraq, earlier this year.
U.S. Army Spec. James P. Barker on Wednesday pleaded guilty to 16 crimes related to the gang rape and premeditated murder of 14-year-old Abeer Al-Janabi and her family in Mahmoudiya, Iraq, earlier this year. He is to be sentenced today, Army officials and his civilian defense attorney said.
According to Sheryl Sandberg, there are too few female role models in business. But she and her colleagues at Google are working to change that.
Sandberg, a graduate of Harvard Business School, is...
Against a backdrop of scandal and corruption, U.S. voters turned against the party in power on Tuesday. This time, the hypocrisy of self-declared family-values politicians who would protect colleagu...
While most of the country was focused on the election aftermath, former U.S. soldier Steven D. Green was quietly arraigned today at a U.S. courthouse in Louisville, Kentucky, three blocks from the Show n’ Tell Lounge advertising “girls, girls, girls.”
Last month, the world awoke to the announcement that Muhammad Yunus, founder of the world renowned Grameen Bank, was awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. Globally, as champions of the microenterprise...
On the day before they head to the polls to determine whether to let stand a state law that bans virtually all abortions, South Dakotans, in newspapers throughout the state, are being asked to recon...
With Republican control of Congress hanging in the balance, this is a critical election year—and young women voters (YWVs) could be the deciding factor. Midterm elections traditionally suffer from l...
Three years into the Iraq War, the American public is making next week’s election a national referendum on the policies that got us there and seem to offer no end in sight. In a democratic culture w...