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Swagger Like Us
Should women amplify their aggression to mimic successful men? Or should they play up what supposedly makes them different?
February 1, 2010 | By Ann Friedman

Not Everything Has Changed
The women's movement may have changed everything for the American public, but in the home, the revolution has hardly begun.
January 15, 2010 | By Ann Friedman

Listening to Afghanistan
The U.S. intervention has never been and won't become a force for humanitarianism.
December 22, 2009 | By Ann Friedman

The Company We Keep
If each liberal "special interest" group is actually just in it alone, what's the point of a common ideology?
November 24, 2009 | By Ann Friedman

The Polanski Paradox
The epidemic of violence against women is a public scourge, but respecting survivors' wishes must be paramount.
October 28, 2009 | By Ann Friedman

Nativism Versus Security
When police become immigration enforcers, everybody loses.
September 10, 2009 | By Ann Friedman

When Opting Out Isn't an Option
For too long, "working women" has meant professionals with children. It's time we focus on the majority of female workers.
June 8, 2009 | By Ann Friedman

Why Clinic Violence is Obama's Problem
Dr. George Tiller's murder should push the federal government to get serious about fighting harassment of abortion providers.
June 1, 2009 | By Ann Friedman | web only

The Trouble with Double X
Is the niche-ification of the Internet amplifying or ghettoizing women's voices?
May 14, 2009 | By Ann Friedman | web only

A Give and Take on Immigration
One year after the largest raid in U.S. history, we rarely hear stories of small towns suffering in the absence of immigrants.
April 22, 2009 | By Ann Friedman

Broad Rights
Obama will be forced to decide whether reproductive health care is an essential service or merely a political chess piece.
March 6, 2009 | By Ann Friedman

How Bush Broke the Government
To gain a true sense of Bush's legacy, we survey the systematic and politically motivated ways he undermined the federal government.
January 5, 2009 | By Tara McKelvey, Te-Ping Chen, Meredith Kolodner, Esther Kaplan, Carolyn Petri, Sheila Kaplan, LaNitra Walker, Alyssa Rosenberg, Ann Friedman and Emily Douglas

Don't Call it a Culture War
We will continue to lose battles like Prop. 8 until we can successfully relabel LGBT rights a civil-rights issue, rather than an issue mired in the culture-war swamp of moral controversy.
November 25, 2008 | By Ann Friedman

The Identity Blame Game
It's Cabinet speculation time, and the valiant defenders of the place of white men in the Democratic Party are worried, once again, that women, people of color, and gay folks will screw it all up for them.
November 18, 2008 | By Ann Friedman | web only

McCain's Sexist VP Pick
The GOP seems to think women will eagerly vote for any ticket that includes a member of their gender. That's Republican tokenism and pandering at its worst.
August 29, 2008 | By Ann Friedman | web only

The Generation Trap
Today's social-justice activists start with very different conditions than those that existed in the 1960s.
August 20, 2008 | By Ann Friedman

Beyond Hillary: 7 Democratic Women to Watch
Profiles of the next generation of progressive women political leaders.
June 23, 2008 | By Ann Friedman, Anabel Lee, Te-Ping Chen, Stephanie Gray, Tara McKelvey, Holly Yeager and Adam Doster

Beyond Hillary: Strength in Numbers
The Year of the Woman was 16 years ago, and the number of women in elected office has flatlined. Herewith, some ideas on how to build a critical mass of female officeholders.
June 23, 2008 | By Ann Friedman

TAP Talks with Lilly Ledbetter
The Supreme Court's decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear overturned decades of employment-law precedent. Congress is considering legislation this week that would reverse the decision and help end discriminatory pay practices.
April 23, 2008 | By Ann Friedman | web only

Listening to Iraq
The news coverage of the Iraq War almost always ignores the daily lives of ordinary Iraqis. Seeking out those personal stories could help us understand the war's human cost.
April 21, 2008 | By Ann Friedman

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