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the bombshell

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The Other Texas Healthcare Crisis

One-sixth of the state’s 5.4 million reproductive-age women are now without access to legal abortion.
By Nina Burleigh
Former senator Norm Coleman, head of an influential super-PAC, is now lobbying for Saudi Arabia. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Stop Taking Saudi Money, Washington

Petro-dollars from superrich Gulf States infect think tanks, lobbyists, academics—and basic American principles.
By Nina Burleigh
Despite powerful evidence pointing to another killer, Italian prosecutors have clung to their case against Amanda Knox, shown here with one of her lawyers in 2011. (Photo by Stephen Brashear/Getty Images)

Like So Many American Black Men, Amanda Knox’s Crime Was Being an Outsider

Outliers, strangers, minorities and people with no access to the levers of power can go from merely suspicious to convicted fast when a crime occurs, anywhere.
By Nina Burleigh
A screenshot from the Women Against Feminism website. (Photo via Creative Commons)

Women Against Womyn: First Wave, Second Wave, Third Wave, and Now Three Steps Back

By Nina Burleigh

Supreme Takeover: Birth Control Foes Also Fear Pants on Women and Elevator Music

By Nina Burleigh
Tech camp

The Case Against Summer Tech Camps

By Nina Burleigh

What American ‘unvaxxers,’ the Taliban and Nigeria’s Deadly Jihadis Have in Common

By Nina Burleigh
NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 16: U.S. Actor-Director Woody Allen (L) speaks to reporters in New York, NY after a pre-trial hearing 15 December, 1992 on the custody fight between Allen and former girlfriend Mia Farrow. Farrow's lawyers are asking that Allen not be allowed to contact his adopted daughter Dylan and not seek custody when his wife dies. (Photo credit should read HAI DO/AFP/Getty Images)

J.D., Roman and Woody: Why ‘Great Men’ Get a Pass From Their Peers

By Nina Burleigh

The Wail of the Kindle Mom

By Nina Burleigh
To some, a pro-choice hero. To one right-wing columnist, Wendy Davis is "abortion Barbie."

From ‘We Saw Your Boobs’ to ‘Abortion Barbie’: The Year in Sexism

By Nina Burleigh

The Bechdel Test Proves Hollywood is a Boys’ Town

By Nina Burleigh

Goliath vs. Goliath: Blumenthal Book Is Right About Israeli Myopia, but Naive on Islamists

By Nina Burleigh
Malala Yousafzai, shot in the head for blogging about girls' education, is hardly the only target of Taliban violence. (Photo: Getty Images)

Teenage Girls vs. the Taliban: What Will Happen When U.S. Leaves?

By Nina Burleigh

You Leak, You Lose: Going to Prison for Acts of Journalism

By Nina Burleigh

Dear Anthony: From One Sex Addict to Another

By Nina Burleigh

One Nation, Underinsured: Why Obamacare Will Prove the Haters Wrong

By Nina Burleigh

Luxor in Dire Straits Even Without New Terrorist-Tied Governor

By Nina Burleigh

The Other Cleveland Victim: How Ariel Castro Got a Pass on Beating His Wife

By Nina Burleigh

Diss Diss Bang Bang: Welcome to the Golden Age of Male Rage

By Nina Burleigh

Cad in Chief: Why The President Should Not Call Female Leaders ‘Goodlooking’

By Nina Burleigh

Stopping the Next Steubenville

By Nina Burleigh

Women’s Wrongs: Feminism’s Gains Are Washing Away

By Nina Burleigh

Louvre, Guggenheim and NYU Accept Millions From Abu Dhabi but Remain Silent on Human Rights

By Nina Burleigh

Time for the Military to Solve Its Rape Problem

By Nina Burleigh
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