"The reason why women can participate in society so fully is because we have more control over our reproductive rights," The Guardian's Ana Marie Cox said. Read More

The "Melissa Harris-Perry" Foot Soldier this week is Amy Palmeiro-Winters, an amputee marathoner who helps children with physical disabilities build confidence through sports. Read More

If you thought the right would take a lesson from last fall's election, think again. The first half of 2013 has brought a new barrage of new attacks on reproductive rights. Read More

A child who puts a hand on a hot burner instantly learns never to do it again. But some Republican members of Congress apparently can’t. Read More

Wisconsin's governor is set to sign a bill mandating an ultrasound before a woman can get an abortion. Read More

The White House determined Thursday that Syrian troops had used chemical weapons against rebel forces, killing at least 150 people, and the U.S. will not begin supplying rebel forces with small arms and ammunition for the first time. Read More

The New York Times editorial board finds Michigan Senator Carl Levin's decision to table a proposal by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand to take the prosecutions of alleged sexual assault victims outside of the military chain-of-command distressing. Read More

Republican Rep. Trent Franks countered critics of his recent remarks about rape and abortion, claiming his comments were "taken out of context." Read More

Channeling Todd Akin? Rep. Trent Franks of Arizona is the latest GOPer to make an outlandish claim about rape and pregnancy. Read More

Senator Carl Levin effectively killed Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's proposal to remove sexual assault prosecutions from the military chain of command, but the fight isn't over yet. Read More

Armando Iannucci, creator of the HBO series, says that while fictional VP Selina Meyer shares some similarities with current and past vice presidents, she isn't based on one political character. Read More

Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, on Tuesday dropped a proposal to give military prosecutors, rather than the commanders, the power to decide which sex assault crimes to try. Read More

President Obama enters the fight to help Democrats keep the senate seat held for decades by Secretary of State John Kerry, heading to Massachusetts one day… Read More

The nonprofit group Armed Citizen Project is “fighting the war on women, one free shotgun at a time.” But will it actually make women safer? Read More

When President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law 50 years ago, women earned just 59 cents for every dollar a man earned. Fast forward half a century, and Latinas make only 60 cents for every dollar paid to men. Read More

In what is becoming an annual #nerdland tradition, host Melissa Harris-Perry offered a summer reading list to her audience. Read More

On the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act, women still earn 77 cents to every dollar earned by a man. But while a national conversation on "leaning in" dominates media headlines, progress on pay equity has stalled on the Hill. Read More

June marks the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy signing the Equal Pay Act, and women are making about three quarters of what men make, despite their educational level. Read More

Guest writer Anthea Butler weighs in on the racial symbolism behind this week's GetEQUAL protest of First Lady Michelle Obama, and the reaction to it. Read More

The RNC autopsy report was meant to help end the "war on women," but the issues remain. Read More