It took over 70 years of determined, dogged and dedicated effort to gain the right for women to vote in the United States. Seventy years. The women and men who initially campaigned for universal ...

IT is a late-summer night, nearly midnight in Washington, D.C., when the taxicab comes for Mimi Ramsey. She steps into it with a worried look in her eyes and her mouth firmly set. She is on her way to ...

Rita’s daughter cries, again. “I can’t take it!” Rita tells her mother on the phone. “For the past 24 hours, she has cried nonstop.” “It will get better, Rita,” her mother replies. “You did the right ...

The strange case of a Florida mom who took her 4-year-old into hiding to avoid circumcision has rekindled interest in the controversy around the practice. Circumcision proponents point to studies by ...