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- Paul Ryan, introduced as ‘faithful Catholic’ on ‘human life,’ was rebuked by bishops over cuts to poor
- What’s so bad about RomneyCare? Just ask Andrea Saul.
- Democratic abortion foes push for change in platform
- Richard Mourdock: Q & A with Indiana’s GOP Senate nominee
- What Obama could learn from Romney’s European tour
- The battle for religious voters
- In Indiana Senate race, Democrat Donnelly looks across the aisle
- Sorry, but Ann Romney and Michelle Obama are full campaign partners, and totally fair game
- Woo hoo for Yahoo for making pregnant Marissa Mayer its new CEO
- Would more women at the top at Penn State have stopped Sandusky sooner?
- At the NAACP, Mitt Romney got what he came for
- In defense of the women in Sorkin’s “The Newsroom”
- Ann Romney’s killer rhetoric
- What Paterno admitted he knew: Sandusky couldn’t have done it without him
- Does Dottie Sandusky deserve a jail cell of her own?
- Sandusky prosecutor gets in his face, defense urges jurors to be true to their school
- Before there were “nuns on a bus,” there was Sister Corita Kent
- Walking Corita Kent’s bumpy road
- May Rodney King rest in the peace he called for
- Obama pins the economy on Bush
- Where are the women? The 20 best (and worst) Congressional districts for female candidates
- Is the Catholic ‘Fortnight for Freedom’ really a ‘Fortnight to Defeat Barack Obama?’
- John Edwards is after redemption, not a political comeback
- Bay Buchanan, speaking up for single moms
- Is John Edwards flirting, or just being Southern?
- Ann Romney and Germans: Ich bin ein say what?
- No, it’s the law, not the sin
- Contraception contretemps
- Catholic suit against Obama birth control rules: Both sides are wrong
- Why Chen fights, and why U.S. abortion rights supporters should care
- Rush Limbaugh, my missing breasts and his contribution to the ‘war on women’
- Manly Barack Obama
- Bullying and the case for same-sex marriage
- Dick Lugar, poor loser?
- Sexual violence in the U.S. military
- Joe Donnelly, the Democrat in the Indiana Senate race, is a winner today, too
- Mitt’s Mormon moment — when asked about Obama’s ‘treason’
- Chen Guangcheng’s fate: Why should we trust China to keep its word?
- What we might learn -- but can’t know -- from a candidate’s wife and girlfriends
- About those Lugar-Mourdock ads in Indiana ... (Absurd, yes. ‘Vicious,’ no.)
- Judge Catherine Eagles is on John Edwards’s case
- John Edwards trial: Andrew Young is one confused witness
- At John Edwards’s trial, credibility is in short supply
- John Edwards gets his day in court — but who’s missing from the jury?
- In art and in life, nuns finally get their due
- Five myths about female voters
- The instructive timing of the crackdown on nuns
- Ann Romney and the art of umbrage
- Milking criticism further isn’t a good plan for Ann Romney
- For John Edwards, the court of public opinion has already ruled
- Court of public opinion has its mind made up
- Mitt Romney should write Hilary Rosen a thank-you note
- Richard Lugar: Too mild to be memorable?
- Red Cross founder Clara Barton fought ‘thin black snakes’ of depression by springing into action
- Nikki Haley, armed with high heels, shows some restraint
- Health-care arguments boil over outside court
- Outside Supreme Court, conservatives sound like liberals
- Lizzy Seeberg and sexual assault at the University of Notre Dame
- Why women don’t run for political office
- Is Romney’s Etch a Sketch carved in stone?
- Why Romney’s grits are fried
- Whose war, and on which women?
- Rush Limbaugh apologizes to Sandra Fluke
- Why John Edwards wants sex tape saved
- When Rush Limbaugh talks, who wins and who loses?
- Bob Kerrey, war criminal?
- Where did the heavy moral choice in politics go?
- Santorum remembers the ladies in Michigan speech
- The Politics of Communion: Why was Barbara Johnson turned away?
- George Huguely won’t ‘grow out of’ alcoholism
- Mitt’s cars: Is a Cadillac ever just a Cadillac?
- What’s Sandra Fluke got to do with the contraception religious exemption?
- It’s Democrats who are putting focus on birth control
- Birth-control debate a winner for Democrats
- Doug Brinkley: Jodi Kantor’s ‘The Obamas’ is ‘chick nonfiction’
- Santorum’s take on amnios doesn’t add up
- The transformation of George Huguely into ‘Georgie’
- Obama, former religious allies distant
- CPAC 2012: Sarah Palin, motivator-in-chief
- Santorum and women in combat: You want ‘other emotions,’ senator?
- Yeardley Love’s home team
- She The People: Yeardley Love wasn’t alone
- Priest out for praying wrong
- Obama ruling requires Catholic institutions to violate church teaching
- Komen’s Nancy Brinker: ‘We will never bow to pressure.’
- Planned Parenthood will recoup, but will Komen?
- Why Romney won’t get the ‘Al Gore’ treatment
- Newt Gingrich: Against racial dog whistles before he was for them
- Is ‘doing it all’ the only right answer?
- Rick Perry’s back in Texas, and some wonder if he’s lost political power there
- ‘Family values’ still matter — when it’s the other party’s indiscretions
- Blitzer was wrong: Candidate spouses aren’t a ‘lighter subject’
- Brittany Norwood, the Lululemon murder and a mother’s worst nightmare
- Saul Alinsky would be so disappointed: Obama breaks ‘Rules for Radicals’
- Rick Santorum wins! And still can’t catch a break
- Stephen Colbert, Herman Cain turn spotlight on super PACs in South Carolina
- Colbert and Cain: a little silly, a little serious
- Newt Gingrich’s stock rises in South Carolina after clash with John King
- Newt Gingrich’s clash with John King wins praise in South Carolina
- What’s Marianne Gingrich got on her ex?
- Rick Santorum, couch-sitting with a woman not his wife
- Jackie Gingrich Cushman, child janitor: ‘I had so much satisfaction’
- Jon Huntsman lectures GOP on civility even he wouldn’t have been able to deliver
- Focus on the Family’s Patriots-Broncos ad: Should Jesus be marketed alongside Cialis?
- Michelle Obama’s complaints about Jodi Kantor book unjustified
- Michelle Obama’s complaints about Jodi Kantor book unjustified
- ‘One Life to Live’: This time, it’s fatal, as soap opera comes to end
- Nine who said they resigned to spend more time at home — and one who was even believed
- Rick Santorum: ‘The idea I’m coming after your birth control is absurd’
- ‘Mrs. YoMama’: Kansas lawmaker apologizes for e-mail making fun of Michelle Obama’s appearance
- Michele Bachmann exits the GOP race as she entered it
- Republican candidates are glum and glummer
- She the People: our predictions for Iowa
- Newt Gingrich: What kind of Catholic is he?
- Opinion: Does Newt Gingrich have a woman problem? With Michele Bachmann, yes
- Opinion: Does Newt Gingrich have a woman problem? With Michele Bachmann, yes
- Rick Santorum is long on substance, short on support
- Are Rick Perry’s oopsies all in his head?
- Are Rick Perry’s oopsies all in his head?
- Rick Santorum and Trisomy 18: Should he be campaigning?
- Ginger White says multiple men helped her financially
- Ginger White says multiple men helped her financially
- GOP hopeful Rick Santorum campaigns with a seriously ill daughter at home
- Michele Bachmann says knowing ‘when to say no’ as a mom applies to presidency
- ‘Princess Nancy’ Pelosi calls Cain ‘clueless’; vows to do more for child care
- Personhood amendment shows that ‘pro-life’ not a monolith, even on Roe v. Wade
- Sexual harassment deserves a place among ‘the real issues’
- Sexual harassment deserves a place among ‘the real issues’
- How much can Romney talk about his faith?
- Rick Perry: Does he really want to leave Texas?
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