When the Record Keeper Knows What It’s Like to Be in the Records

Kate Cox learned that her fetus had trisomy 18 and sought an abortion after experiencing serious pregnancy complications. Amanda Zurawski's water broke at 18 weeks, but she testified that physicians w...

18 Sep 7min

Gloria Steinem died on September 2 at her home in New York City. She was 92. We are not going to pretend that she was nothing to us. We are not going to pretend she was everything, either.

11 Sep 6min

Eleven jurors were reportedly prepared to acquit Lindsay Clancy. One was not. On September 4, 2026, after seven days and more than 38 hours of deliberation, that was enough for Judge William Sullivan ...

11 Sep 7min

This story really began in 2018, at the Florida NOW Conference, when I supported what I believed was a modest resolution. It did not ask Florida NOW to endorse full decriminalization of adult consensu...

28 Aug 13min

Here is the ad, told as plainly as possible. A woman reaches for a golf club. A man charges her, knocks her to the ground, stands over her body, and says: "Don't touch my driver." That was the pitch. ...

25 Aug 6min

Jeffrey Epstein has become shorthand for sex trafficking—and, predictably, ammunition for advocates who argue that criminalizing the purchase of sex is the answer to exploitation. But Epstein wasn’t b...

14 Aug 9min

America has produced an alarming number of serial killers who discovered the same thing: if you wanted to murder women repeatedly, sex workers were among the least protected victims you could choose. ...

8 Aug 8min

There is a photograph that appears almost every time Robert Pickton's name is mentioned. It is not a photograph of the women he murdered.

31 Juli 8min