1+ week, 17+ hour ago   (1075+ words) One shaped and delivered the language of feminism. The other rejected the label but showed how feminism can be done: with a microphone dusted in rhinestones, and without apology. Gloria Steinem and Dolly Parton embodied two towering versions of the…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (464+ words) With her trademark streaked hair parted down the middle and large aviator glasses, Steinem, a co-founder of Ms. Magazine, was a hugely recognizable presence wherever she went. And she went everywhere: Much of her life as an advocate was spent…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (630+ words) NEW YORK – There are few inalienable truths: Everyone was born, everyone will die, and everyone loved Dolly Parton. Larger-than-life at 5-foot-nothing, the country star, actor, philanthropist, entrepreneur and theme park enthusiast who died Tuesday, transcended celebrity in rhinestones and fringe....

4+ week, 23+ hour ago   (547+ words) WASHINGTON (TNND) — Americans may be talking less — and a new study suggests the decline is substantial. Research published in Perspectives on Psychological Science found that the estimated number of words people speak each day fell by roughly 28% between 2005 and 2019. Researchers…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (495+ words) WASHINGTON (7News) — American history is front and center at the National Museum of American History. Hidden in this history are women whose stories are often overlooked. "Women in this time period don't have an overt role in politics; they have a…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (390+ words) The following is an editorial by Armstrong Williams. Buried within the Justice Department’s new religious liberty guidance is a sentence that should never have needed to be written: “Except in the narrowest circumstances, no one should be forced to choose…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago   (345+ words) WASHINGTON (TNND) — A 162-page report released on July 4 accused the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History of “extreme political activism” and of presenting what it calls a radical view of American history, arguing that the museum downplays the nation’s founders…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1135+ words) Decades later, Samar Kabouli still fondly recalls gathering with women in her family and sipping cardamom-spiced coffee as they embroidered fabric with colorful threads in traditional Palestinian patterns. Born in Lebanon to Palestinian refugees, Kabouli had never seen her parents…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (247+ words) Attorney Justin Nichols occupies a nexus between the Republican Party and the San Antonio gay community. A gay attorney who represented Pride San Antonio...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (831+ words) Cristian Mungiu’s Norway-set drama about political polarization, “Fjord,” has won the Palme d’Or, handing the Cannes Film Festival ’s top honor for the second time to Mungiu, the Romanian director of “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.” At a 79th Cannes Film Festival…...