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Sandy Huffaker / Corbis via Getty The Marine Photo Scandal and the Cost of Indifference
Americans may finally be ready to confront the dehumanizing horrors facing women service members.
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Tami Chappell / Reuters When Women Lead Soldiers Into Battle
The age of the female combat officer is coming.
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Osman Orsal / Reuters ‘Stop This War’
In Turkey, Syrians’ crushed expectations meet the world’s indifference.
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Reuters When Combat Isn’t Combat
If the U.S. is not officially at war, why are its soldiers dying in war zones?
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deMilked / Picksell / Shutterstock / Kara Gordon ... Missing In Action
Why are there so few cultural portrayals of women in combat?
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U.S. Air Force The Shutdown's Effect on Grieving Military Families
Until Congress restores funding, relatives of soldiers killed in action will have to wait for their survivor benefits.
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Reuters Washington vs. D.C.: How the Shutdown Pits the Government Against Its City
For the people who make the government run on a daily basis, whether government paychecks arrive is not a public-policy question but a personal solvency one.
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Associated Press Mr. Idris Goes to Washington: Syrian Rebel Leader May Testify to Congress
As part of the White House push to convince lawmakers to authorize the use of force, the leader of the Free Syrian Army may travel to the U.S.
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No, the War on Terror Isn't Ending
We're constraining, but not stopping, the use of targeted drone strikes.
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Worrying Signs Afghan Women's Rights Will Slip After U.S. Departure
A law to protect women failed to pass parliament this weekend, sparking fears that the country's conservative forces want to roll back the clock on gender.
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The Hillary Doctrine: Women's Rights Are a National Security Issue
"The countries that threaten regional and global peace are the very places where women and girls are deprived of dignity and opportunity," Clinton said in a speech last week.
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Suddenly, Sheryl Sandberg's Critics Care About Working-Class Women
Influential news outlets generally ignore the needs of struggling families.
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Sheryl Sandberg's Radically Realistic 'And' Solution for Working Mothers
The Facebook COO's new book proposes that women opt out of the parent-or-careerwoman binary and choose both.
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The Pregnancy Penalty: How Working Women Pay for Having Kids
Expecting mothers are seen as less competent and more irrational than their peers.
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'This Guy Hates Us': Why Wall Street Turned Against Obama
Investors supported the president in 2008, but financiers I spoke with have decided that the man who rescued the economy isn't the right one to lead its recovery. (They also think he's a little mean.)
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A Woman's Right to Choose (Not to Breastfeed)
New York City's new pro-breast milk policy stigmatizes infant formula and limits access to it, effectively revoking women's freedom to feed their babies as they choose.
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Stop Worrying About Yahoo's Pregnant CEO!
Babies have a knack for coming at unexpected times, and women find ways to make things work. A brilliant manager like Marissa Mayer should be no exception.
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America's Silent Crisis: The Plight of the Single (Working!) Mother
As marriage declines among the lower-income, single-parent families are becoming a new norm. And that parent is overwhelmingly a mother with a job.
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We Need to Tell Girls They Can Have It All (Even If They Can't)
In all this talk about work-life balance, we may be forgetting how few women actually make it to the top.
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'I'm Not Your Wife!' A New Study Points to a Hidden Form of Sexism
Men may be subconsciously looking at women through the lenses of their own marriages.
