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Children and family

Gender & Sexuality, Science & Nature

Who's Your Daddy?

The meaning of fatherhood remains elusive, even in the age of DNA-based paternity testing.

Nara Milanich

Gender & Sexuality, Reading Lists

Abortion’s Past and Future

“I was a teenager back then, pregnant and desperate. Too terrified to make the midnight trip to the back alley.”

Matt Lord, Boston Review

Education & Opportunity

Teaching Citizenship

Education’s most important job is to teach students to take an active role in their democracy, starting in their own communities.

Albert W. Dzur

Gender & Sexuality

Those Left Behind When #LoveWon

Did the success of gay marriage erode the radical potential of queer politics?

Hugh Ryan

Gender & Sexuality

All the Witches They Could Not Burn

A woman’s body is both a site of exploitation and a site of resistance. It is out of this vexed space that the witch is conjured.

Jessie Kindig

Law & Justice

In the Name of Public Safety

The Mass Bail Out at Rikers Island shows that freedom is a critical part of public safety.

Jocelyn Simonson

Literature & Culture

Who's Got Personality?

The Myers-Briggs Bias: An Interview with Merve Emre

Merve Emre, Deborah Chasman

Science & Nature

Programming My Child

Through the experience of parenting his daughter, a software developer came to see Google and Facebook as the first digital children. 

David Auerbach

Philosophy & Religion

The Conversion of Pope Francis

The pontiff still hasn't commented on Ireland's abortion referendum. That could all change when he visits the country in August. 

Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Gender & Sexuality

Going to Work in Mommy's Basement

From laundry to meal prep, apps tend to mimic maternal care. Is this good for women?

Sarah Sharma

Reading Lists

Incarcerated Fathers. Trans Fathers. Founding Fathers.

An alternative father’s day reading list.

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Gender & Sexuality

When Gays Wanted to Liberate Children

Seventies activists wanted to emancipate kids and destroy the nuclear family—so how did we end up with gay marriage instead?

Michael Bronski

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