The public supports pot legalization. So why can’t politicians go along with a massive and still-growing majority of Americans?
In Defense of Having an Only Child: Yes, I Am That Selfish
If I had thought that all the presumptive questioning would stop once I was legally hitched and had popped out one kid, I was wrong.
There’s Nothing New About the New Racism
A new book by ‘Tiger Mom’ Amy Chua claims to explain why some groups fail and others succeed. We’ve heard this all before.
Grantland Transgender Scandal Signals Progress
Take heart, transgender people. You’re closer than you think.
Refugees in Our Own Country
When we think of people fighting for freedom, we often think internationally — but perhaps we should turn our attention to our own backyards
Premature Perfection: Why an Early Delivery Is Just as Good As Any
My son’s birth was far from the dreamy notion I had had in mind, but there was nothing wrong about it
The Wrong Way To Write About Trans People
Mixed Martial Arts fighter Fallon Fox on what the media fails to understand
Hey Dove, Don’t ‘Redefine’ Beauty, Just Stop Talking About It
The company’s new ‘real beauty’ ad is all about how girls look, like we need to be wasting more brainspace on that
A Resolution for Moms: No More Fakebook
My life on Facebook is an airbrushed and Instagrammed image of my real life. But I also think I’d be a better mom if I stopped pretending.
School Volunteering and Parental Pressure: One Mom’s Unapologetic No
Learning to resist the unhealthy pressure to volunteer for every possible activity in a child’s school
Black Gay Men Are Still Invisible
Whenever I read about this mythical place in which a person’s sexuality is no longer taboo, in the wake of a handful of states allowing marriage equality, I often think to check the balance of my credit card. I would love to be …
What the Gay Rights Movement Should Learn from Martin Luther King, Jr.
In contrast to contemporary gay activists, King found a way to condemn evil without condemning the evildoer
The Impossibility of The Good Black Mother
From the pediatrician’s office to the streets I call my own, it is not the myth of the Good Mother, but that of the Bad Black Mother, that renders my motherhood at turns invisible and suspect