• The epic, 40-year-old feminist art piece that we’re still learning from today

    The epic, 40-year-old feminist art piece that we’re still learning from today

    Mar 20, 2018 03:20 PM EDT

    ... the overt sexism she experienced in her professional life in the 60s and 70s. Male artists were disparaging, and calling someone a “p***y,” a term Chicago loathed, was the preferred slur in artistic circles, Hermo said. “She was so embarrassed and ashamed by that,” Hermo said. “What does it ...

  • Russia’s ‘troll factory’ impersonates Americans to sow political chaos. How can the U.S. fight it?

    Russia’s ‘troll factory’ impersonates Americans to sow political chaos. How can the U.S. fight it?

    Feb 20, 2018 11:40 PM EDT

    ... the types of criticisms that people were levying of politics at that time. Judy Woodruff: So, pretty sophisticated stuff. Nina Jankowicz: Yes, absolutely, and long-term. We thought that this was going on since 2014. And it was a widespread operation and pretty well-funded. This is alleging over $1 ...

  • Analysis: The 3 Supreme Court cases you should be watching closely this month

    Analysis: The 3 Supreme Court cases you should be watching closely this month

    Feb 19, 2018 05:57 PM EDT

    The U.S. Supreme Court comes back from its winter break this week and plunges into a second half of the term as big as the first. Between now and the end of arguments in April, the justices will hear cases involving the Trump Administration's latest travel ban; the ...

  • In defense of going over-the-top on Valentine's Day

    In defense of going over-the-top on Valentine's Day

    Feb 14, 2018 05:10 PM EDT

    ... back in 2008, when I moved to Mumbai, India after college. My father had just gotten divorced for the third time, and I was in search of answers about love and marriage. In Mumbai, I found, people practiced a showy, demonstrative kind of love, one unafraid of affection or emotion ...

  • Analysis: How an Uber employee's #MeToo story could shape an employee rights case at the Supreme Court

    Analysis: How an Uber employee's #MeToo story could shape an employee rights case at the Supreme Court

    Feb 08, 2018 08:08 PM EDT

    ... the arbitration act. It also contends that litigation in court is often too expensive to be a realistic option for employees. Analysis: Voting rights and search and seizure heat up January’s Supreme Court term The justices appeared divided during October arguments. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg compared the workplace arbitration ...

  • Putin: U.S. took 'hostile step' in publishing Russia list

    Putin: U.S. took 'hostile step' in publishing Russia list

    Jan 30, 2018 03:48 PM EDT

    ... Manafort, is included. Less obvious names on the list include Sergei Galitsky, founder of retail chain Magnit, and Arkady Volozh, founder and CEO of the search engine Yandex, and bankers Oleg Tinkov and Ruben Vardanyan. They have been lauded as self-made men who built their successful businesses without any ...

  • Supreme Court to hear appeal over Texas redistricting

    Supreme Court to hear appeal over Texas redistricting

    Jan 12, 2018 11:31 PM EDT

    ... the existing, challenged maps. The court probably will hear arguments in April and decide the case by late June. READ MORE: Analysis: Voting rights and search and seizure heat up January’s Supreme Court term The dispute over the Texas maps focuses on racial discrimination and is separate from the ...

  • After Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rican poets ask again what it means to belong

    After Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rican poets ask again what it means to belong

    Jan 08, 2018 09:40 PM EDT

    The first incarnation of New York's Nuyorican Poets Cafe was Miguel Algarin's East Village living room. He, along with other Nuyorican artists, writers and poets, wanted a place where they could showcase the work often shunned by mainstream academic and literary institutions. The term “Nuyorican” stands, in part ...

  • Teaching kids about Thanksgiving or Columbus? They deserve the real story

    Teaching kids about Thanksgiving or Columbus? They deserve the real story

    Nov 15, 2017 06:16 PM EDT

    My students felt betrayed, angry even, that throughout their elementary and middle school years, teachers had pushed a fake narrative, or had done little, if anything, to correct the record.

  • Urine screens cost $8.5 billion a year — more than the entire EPA budget

    Urine screens cost $8.5 billion a year — more than the entire EPA budget

    Nov 07, 2017 10:26 PM EDT

    Spending on urine screens and related genetic tests quadrupled from 2011 to 2014 to an estimated $8.5 billion a year — more than the entire budget of the Environmental Protection Agency. The federal government paid providers more to conduct urine drug tests in 2014 than it spent on the four most recommended cancer screenings combined,...