Do you have a right to your own birth certificate, or can the state decide to keep it from you?

I watched the Rachel Maddow Show during the 2008 primaries but slowly stopped once election-mania petered out. I was reminded of her great style in interviewing people whose beliefs she disagrees with yesterday in this thorough interview of Rand Paul, Ron's son and, as of this week, the winner of the Republican primary in the Kentucky Senate race.

By definition, Martin Luther King Day both celebrates the end of racial segregation and reminds us of a past this country can never live down. For feminists, a particularly painful aspect of that past is the segregation of the early fight for women’s suffrage. With her new book Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lyching, historian Crystal N.

At the end of October, National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, members of the men’s movement group RADAR (Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting) gathered on the steps of Congress to lobby against what they say are the suppressed truths about domestic violence: that false allegations are rampant, that a feminist-run court system fraudulently separates innocent fathers from children, that battered women’s shelters are running a racket that funnels federal dollars to feminists, that domestic-violence laws give cover to cage