New books by Mariah Carey and Lana Del Rey report from inside the trap of celebrity.

After 50 years of living in rural obscurity, the now-legendary electronic musician has a message for the young.

Corporate America’s pledges to make C-suites less white and male don’t mean much for workers. But it keeps coming back to the idea, anyway.

The pandemic and recession have disproportionately hit women, but the recovery will be easier for some than others.

A post-9/11 veteran novelist explores a post-Vietnam literary soiree gone bad, and finds timeless lessons about a contentious and still-evolving genre.

Conservatives have prevailed in an effort to deny people bodily autonomy. That’s always been their fight.

As abolitionist frameworks enter the mainstream, addressing gendered and sexual violence is treated like a conceptual trap. It’s not.

It’s an emotionally compelling notion for activists and a tidy narrative for pundits. But it’s a 100-year-old myth.

“It got to the point where us pregnant females were denying our medical treatment. It was almost like a boycott.”

That’s bad news for all of us, particularly when it comes to research relevant to our current crises.

Am I being a bad mother if I’m not giving my son full attention? A bad employee? Both?

One in three jobs held by women in the U.S. is deemed “essential” right now. Will we value that labor after the crisis has passed?

America’s gendered approach to “national security” means preparing for wars, not pandemics.

How a New York law on “masquerading” passed in the early nineteenth century has been used—and abused—in the decades since

The president's silent accessories have been permitted to wield their limited power on his behalf in his hour of crisis.

Our future might look much like our past, with pills as a major part of abortion access—and an obsessive target for abortion opponents.

Inside the court battle over trans employment discrimination

How an employment case in the United Kingdom revealed the ugly contours of anti-trans discrimination

An interview with Andrea Long Chu on her new book "Females."

The National Organization for Women opposes decriminalization. Doing so has led it to gaslight sex workers and echo rhetoric from anti-choice groups and the religious right.