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The Enemy in Your Pants
Army medical records dating back to the Revolutionary War show significant soldier losses due to venereal diseases. In a two-year period during the Civil War, the Union Army documented 100,000 cases of gonorrhea. During World War I, the Army lost 7 million person-days and discharged more than 10,000 men because they were ailing from sexually transmitted diseases. Once penicillin kicked in in the mid-1940s, such infections were treatable.
1 in 3 Women Has an Abortion. I am 1. – eliz gettelman galicia – Medium
I am not the person you’d think would have an abortion. I am not the person you‘d think would have an abortion but that’s because you don’t realize that so many of us have had the quiet and heavy and impossible moment where we choose what is our life’s future, whether by procedures or pills or (hopefully not ever again) coathanger and cold speculum. I had tried desperately for six years to have kids. I am not the person you’d think of when you think of who would have an abortion.
Gwen Ifill’s Truth
Update, Monday November 16, 2016: Gwen Ifill passed away Monday. She was 61. For a decade, Gwen Ifill’s been a fixture on PBS’s Washington Week and The NewsHour, the mild-mannered staples of capital-S serious TV news. “You may not see me tweeting soon,” she confesses, but she says she’s happy to see bloggers burst the Beltway bubble.
Trump Has a Serious Conflict-of-Interest Problem. Maybe Congress Will Investigate Him.
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) requested a formal congressional investigation into Donald Trump's "financial arrangements" Monday, urging a key congressional committee to examine the president-elect's sprawling business empire for any conflicts of interests.
Gwen Ifill's Truth
For a decade, Gwen Ifill's been a fixture on PBS's Washington Week and The NewsHour , the mild-mannered staples of capital-S serious TV news. "You may not see me tweeting soon," she confesses, but she says she's happy to see bloggers burst the Beltway bubble. Mother Jones caught up with Ifill during a schedule packed with nightly shows and a national tour for her new book, The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.
My Dad, the Warriors, and Me
For a long time my Twitter bio included “recovering sports fanatic.” I am off the wagon. Growing up, sports and sports fandom were the family stock-in-trade. You kept up with our father by tailing him to the nearby running track, moving through rudimentary stretches before a six-lap regimen that was for time, the heavier the breathing the better.
I'm With the Rand
Angelina Jolie: "I just think [Ayn Rand] has a very interesting philosophy...You reevaluate your own life and what's important to you." Christina Ricci: "My favorite book is The Fountainhead...I relate to it because of the idea that you're not a bad person if you don't love everyone." Vince Vaughn: "The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life—The Fountainhead." Rob Lowe: "Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand is a stupendous achievement and I just adore it." Eva Mendes: Any...
Does playing soccer with Coldplay count?
It was eight or so years ago and they were in San Francisco for several shows at the Shoreline. The band was staying at the Four Seasons and there’s a gym attached to the hotel where normal people work out next to famous hotel-goers (I once was on a treadmill next to Dwyane Wade).
The Enemy in Your Pants
Army medical records dating back to the Revolutionary War show significant soldier losses due to venereal diseases. In a two-year period during the Civil War, the Union Army documented 100,000 cases of gonorrhea. During World War I, the Army lost 7 million person-days and discharged more than 10,000 men because they were ailing from STDs. Once Penicillin kicked in in the mid-1940s, such infections were treatable.
May You Never Be Catcalled
When I put my girls to sleep at night I think: may you grow up in a world where you are never catcalled. I don’t go beyond that to the grisly places because they are 4 and 2, and there are lullabies echoing and paintings of magic lands above their beds. When I put my son to sleep I think: if you catcall, we’re finished. Not in the I-give-up-on-you sense, but the I-give-up-on-me sense.
Sonja Sohn ReWires Baltimore
Sonja Sohn: Even though the neighborhood I grew up in had some unhealthy elements, there was a caring there where you knew that you didn't want to get caught doing something wrong. There were bright spots in the neighborhood where I felt nurtured on a community level. Also, the air that I gave off in school was that I was quite functional. I was making decent grades. I was very academically inclined. But my inner life was in such turmoil.
All in the Game | Mother Jones
MKW: My dancing came about as a way to be cool, actually. I knew early on that I was not a street kid. I didn't have the moxie, what it took to run the streets with the dudes that I grew up wanting to emulate. But I had a huge need to be accepted, so I found that I could be the party king. I did drugs really well, and I partied really well, those were my ways of being down and cool—"Mike can hang," that kind of thing. So dancing was a part of that.
This Afghan Policewoman Died Fighting the Taliban. Now Right-Wingers Are Desecrating Her Photo.
Malalai Kakar was a police officer in Afghanistan. She was also a mother of six, a feminist, and a fearsome threat to the Taliban, who gunned her down in 2008. You would know some of Kakar's story if you'd come across Lana Šlezic's captivating photography of women in Afghanistan in Mother Jones and other publications.
This Afghan Policewoman Died Fighting the Taliban. Now Right-Wingers Are Desecrating Her Photo.
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Project Runway's Top Gunn
Tim Gunn on revolutionary fashion, the "It Gets Better" campaign, and why you're never too smart for style. TG: No, I'm not. Laughs. I had a guy who said "I'm sorry to bother you, but do you mind if I ask you a question? Where can I find suits that fit me?" And I said: "Can I touch you?" And he said, "Yes." So I put my hands on his shoulders and I pushed them back, and I said, "Now straighten your spine." And he did. I said, "You're suit fits you perfectly fine. It's your posture that's a problem.
We're All Hoarders Now
A nation of pack rats scrambles to store its junk. The New York Times reports a surge in multiyear, multiunit renters, or what one self-storage company calls "a segment of the population that has truly embedded storage into its lifestyle." 1 in 11 households rents storage space—1 million more households than two years ago. 7 square feet of commercial storage space now exists for every American. The self-storage industry is only 35 years old.
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
Thanks to Jones' megalomaniacal staging, Nelson is able to present an almost cinema verité vision of the Temple. Thanks to Jones' megalomaniacal staging—video cameras and microphones appear to have been ubiquitous—Nelson is able to present an almost cinema verité vision of the Temple, which he supplements with survivors' accounts.
Wendell Pierce Goes to Market
WP: It's all our turns. We're in a place where, especially in New Orleans it was one of those things where if not now, when? If not me, who? It's so clear that we are still in a crisis mode when it comes to the recovery of the city. It was inevitable that I had to get involved. And I wanted to be able to answer some young kid in the future who says, "Mr. Pierce, what did you do, in New Orleans' darkest hours?" I wanted to have a proud answer.
The Last Taboo | Mother Jones
I'm crossing the city in one of Calcutta's famously broken-down Ambassador taxis. The seat's been replaced with a box, the windows don't work, there never were seat belts. Sneezes of rain blow through. It's always like this, arriving in the dead of night after incomprehensibly long international flights, exiting the hermetically sealed jet onto humid and smoky streets perfumed with gardenias and shit. The coal haze is thick as magician's smoke.
The Greatest Hits in Contraceptive History
Pretty much since the beginning of time, people have looked for ways to control their own fertility—from jumping backward seven times after sex, to using elephant or crocodile dung as suppositories, to drinking mercury and donning reusable condoms. And for just as long, there's been a veritable crusade against (mostly) women's efforts to control reproduction. From the Book of Genesis to the 21st Olympiad, here are some notable moments in the war on contraception. c.
Aboxalypse Now
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Nearly 10% of a typical product’s price is for packaging. The global packaging market is worth $429 billion. Nearly 1/3 of Americans’ waste is packaging. Just 43% is recycled after use. In 2007, Americans threw away 78.5 million tons of packaging—520 pounds per person. That’s a 71% increase from 1960. A 2008 bill written by Rep.
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