A conversation with the Speaker of the New York City Council.

A conversation with the feminist activist.

Prostitution is not empowering for women; it is a symptom of addiction to masculinity and need for domination. “We need to eroticize equality,” says the noted feminist.

People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist,” says Steinem. “What does that mean? We’re clearly not ‘post’ either.

It’s not helpful to talk about men and women as if they were fixed and binary entities, says the celebrated feminist. “The purpose of feminism is … to understand that […]

Feminism has proven that women can do men’s jobs, but it hasn’t yet proven that men can do women’s jobs—like nurturing a child. This is both a libel to men […]

The female chess champion says that in order to succeed in the world of competitive chess, you have to develop masculine skills like competitiveness and analytic thinking.

“Any group of people that has been subordinate absorbs the idea of our own subordination and that it is natural and comes to think that the only way to survive […]

When Sarah Palin branded herself as a “mama grizzly,” she was unaware of the supreme irony: grizzly bears are the animals that most embody reproductive freedoms, even reabsorbing their own […]

A conversation with the sex advice columnist.

The idea that one instance of infidelity should ruin a relationship is a new—and misguided—notion.

Despite giving people sex advice for a living, Savage screwed up the “birds and the bees” talk with his own son. Like most adults, he forgot to explain the concept […]

For the most part, raising a child with two fathers has been totally normal, says the advice columnist. But it has led to some hilarious situations.

There’s a lot of bad advice that tells teens to come out regardless of their family situation. “Not everyone is in a position where that it wise or safe,” he […]

The advice columnist, normally quite critical of religion, tells us how a Catholic priest helped his mother come to terms with his homosexuality.

Religious people have to reconcile themselves to ignore what the Bible says about gay people—the same way they ignore what the Bible says about polyester, lobster, figs, and women.

The first African-American grandmaster traces his obsession with chess to a high school friend who kept crushing him at the game.

The game trains you to focus on what your opponent is thinking and planning—a discipline that is useful on the chessboard and in the boardroom.

“It’s a discipline that you practice,” says the Jamaican-born grandmaster, “and you can’t help but develop your mental powers.”

The top African-American chess player defied the conventional wisdom that you need to learn the game in preschool to become a grandmaster.

Players from Brooklyn want “to rip your heart out, cook it, and eat it later.”

The post-WW2 generation has often been portrayed as narcissistic and self-centered—but that’s a bit of a bum rap.

Most families today need more than one incomes to be part of the middle class. That is a huge transformation that puts a strain on all kinds of families.

Most women say they feel misunderstood by marketers, even though they represent 83% of all consumer purchases today—including big-ticket items such as cars and houses.

Over the past 30 years, inflation-adjusted income levels have remained flat for men. Women, on the other hand, have seen their incomes grow exponentially.

Everyone has freedom to choose what kind of person he or she wants to be. We can live like cockroaches and feed on rubbish—or like eagles, who fly very high.

Over 4 million people are displaced in Colombia because of war; both the rightist paramilitary and the leftist guerillas steal land to make themselves richer.

“I realized being in the jungle that what I had thought I could do—changing the way politics were being done in Colombia—was not possible the way I wanted to do […]

Some of Betancourt’s fellow captives were critical of her behavior in their memoir. “I don’t want to judge them because I think we all are entitled to our truth and […]