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Is our future the past?

‘Our Bodies Ourselves’…No More

With a slew of egregious new laws, the GOP's war on women, and reproductive rights, intensifies.
By Sheila Weller
‘I feel he [Dylan] is with me and I draw on him for strength to get me where I need to be next.’

Return to Sandy Hook

As the documentary ‘Newtown’ opens, Nicole Hockley and her Sandy Hook Promise are training millions of Americans to prevent school murders like the one that took her young son's life.
By Sheila Weller
Nate Parker and Mel Gibson:

The Apology Test: Two Flawed Directors, Two Films, Two Controversies—One Bottom Line

A pair of director-actors—O.K., auteurs—of what are supposed to be spectacularly good, Oscar-worthy, history-based movies that received standing ovations at two different major film festivals are currently embroiled in very public and escalating quagmires: Should their past personal behavior affect how we judge their movies?
By Sheila Weller
Photo: Heidi Hart

Two Heroes You Can Help Right Now

By Sheila Weller
A double standard for bad behavior.

Boys Will Be Boys

By Sheila Weller
Donald Fagen was booked on charges of assault against wife Libby Titus. (Photo by SGranitz/WireImage)

When Boomer Men We Love Behave Badly

By Sheila Weller
She has no secrets: Carly Simon today. (Photo courtesy Carly Simon)

The Counterintuitive Wisdom of Carly Simon

By Sheila Weller
Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison in Homeland. Photo: Stephan Rabold/SHOWTIME - Photo ID; Homeland_503_5519.R

Female Trouble: Why We Love Messy, Hapless TV Heroines—And Want Them to Stay That Way

By Sheila Weller

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