Outside the Beltway

The early frontrunner for the Democratic nomination is drawing fire from multiple fronts. It may destroy his candidacy before it begins.

It’s increasingly challenging to discuss media coverage because we’re all consuming a hand-selected bit of it.

A Washington Post columnists tries to make the case.

History’s first all-female spacewalk was thwarted by a lack of smaller suits.

It’s possible to conclude that Pete Buttigieg is smarter than Elizabeth Warren for reasons having nothing to do with sex.

Two-thirds want social media platforms to ban harassment and racist, sexist, and other offensive speech.

Now that women are allowed into all combat roles, the rationale for excluding them from Selective Service has evaporated.

And I’d still prefer her to Donald Trump.

It turns out, The Duke wasn’t all that woke.

Tennis great Martina Navratilova is facing criticism for raising questions about how sports handles the issue of transgender athletes competing within the gender they identify with. She shouldn’t be.

Gender bias is real. Most examples cited, though, aren’t.

Late last night, the Supreme Court blocked a Louisiana abortion law from going into effect, the first significant abortion rights ruling since Justice Kavanaugh took the bench.

It’s reasonable and just to adjust our outrage based on the context of the time when incidents occurred.

Gender bias in student evaluations of college professors diminishes considerably by changing the scale.

Is benefitting politically from romantic liaisons different than other relationships?

Can society forgive the men caught up in the #MeToo movement? Is it even our place to decide?

In what amounts to a setback, the Supreme Court has lifted an injunction barring the Trump Administration’s ban on transgender service in the military to go forward pending further legal proceedings.

While most Hollywood blockbusters have male leads, films starring women actually do better on the aggregate.

The Supreme Court declined to hear a case involving state laws banning Medicaid reimbursement for non-abortion services provided by Planned Parenthood.

A fifty-year-old song is getting new scrutiny in the wake of the #MeToo movement.

A Mississippi law that seeks to ban most abortions after 15 weeks was struck down by a Federal District Court Judge.

Whether as candidates or as voters, Democrats can thank women for many of their victories on Tuesday.

Science can’t precisely locate gender but it’s neither fully biological nor fully genetic.

She’s quite likely the youngest 4-star general in the U.S. Army, if not the U.S. military.

A Supreme Court first by the newest Justice.

Fifty years ago, a young college student who would become one of the most influential women in Washington was sexually assaulted by a Senator. She didn’t come forward with her story for more than fifty years, and the reasons why strike close to what we’ve been talking about for three weeks now.

A look at the numbers behind the influx of women into electoral politics this year.

With the primaries over, we can say that it’s been quite a successful year for women in politics.

The #MeToo movement brings down the head of a Fortune 500 company.

Recent controversies over rules enforcement have some crying Foul!

The masturbator-harasser is doing stand-up again.

A new study claims voter ID laws may disenfranchise the demographic, potentially swinging several Congressional races.

Another Federal Judge has ruled in favor of a transgender student seeking the right to use the gender that conforms to the gender they identify with.

One of the biggest names in Hollywood stands accused of sexual misconduct by a number of women in yet another ground-breaking report by Ronan Farrow.

A fourth poll in less than a month shows that most Americans support keeping the rights protected in Roe v. Wade alive.

In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court struck down a California law requiring Crisis Pregnancy Centers to provide information about abortion.

A Republican organization dedicated to abortion rights is shutting down after 30 years, eight fewer than the Party has opposed them.

A seemingly innocuous change to a newspaper style guide has some significant implications.

He thinks his Constitutional rights are being violated. They’re not.

In what seems like an obvious response to the rise of the #MeToo movement and the cultural changes it has brought about, the Miss America pageant is making a major change.

Earlier this week, the Illinois legislature ratified the Equal Rights Amendment. What’s unclear is if this act has any meaning at all.

Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been charged with rape and sexual assault in a New York Court.

The prosecutor who came to national prominence jumping on the #MeToo bandwagon has now been run over by it.

While the Trump Administration slowly tries to remake the Federal Judiciary, states are moving to pass radical new challenges to Roe v. Wade.

Now that girls are joining the Boy Scouts, the organization has quite reasonably changed its name accordingly.

It takes a whole lot of work to net small gains for underrepresented groups.

Marking the end of a long fall from grace, the man once known as “America’s Dad” has been found guilty on three counts of sexual assault.

Maureen Dowd blames the Internet for women having sex with men they find unattractive.

The grand gesture may put undue pressure on women in making an important life decision.

The woman who lost the 2016 election is apparently not going to go away.