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Batter Up! 2013: As baseball season begins, injuries to star players have resulted in sluggish ticket sales for teams in major markets....
Watch the Throne 2013: South Korean history was made this week, as Park Geun-hye became the country’s first female president. Strained relations with...
Harriet Jacobs at 200 The author of one of the most detailed slave narratives of the nineteenth century celebrates a milestone that’s nearly impossible to measure.
On the Front Lines 2012: Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced this week that the Pentagon will lift a 1994 ban that prohibits women...
I Don’t 2012: A recent census by the British government has revealed a new trend in marriage—namely, that it isn’t happening. The...
Nauseous Puddle Water 1672 / London
First Ladies-in-Waiting Not all First Ladies are married to the President—the story of two Presidential nieces who shaped Washington social politics for years to come.
Sounds of the Second Coming c. 1949 / Mexico
Don’t Cry for Me 2012: The party of Silvio Berlusconi—the disgraced Italian politician whose time in power was plagued by reports of shady financial...
She Shoots, She Scores! 2012: The University of Connecticut’s women’s basketball team has long been a powerhouse in the sport, but some members of...
Skin Deep 2012: A Hong Kong woman has died after contracting septic shock related to a blood-related beauty treatment commonly given to...
Coming Soon: “Politics” On newsstands September 17
Rights & Representation The percentage of female representatives in a country’s congress or parliament
It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World 1848 / Seneca Falls, NY
Wherein Man Has Failed 1910 / New York City
Cleaning House 411 BC / Athens
Taking Action 1969 / Washington, DC
The Woman Who Would Be King by Kara Cooney
Witch-Hunt 372 / Antioch
Harriet Martineau Under A Spell 1844 / Tynemouth
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