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The new health care law will ban the practice of gender rating, but women are still paying significantly more than men for health care.

Politicizing contraception jeopardizes women’s health by taking away access to a basic, preventative health care that treats and prevents many health conditions affecting women.

No matter how this story continues to unfold, Lin’s immediate impact has been to challenge traditional Asian American stereotypes within the NBA and the professional sport’s community at large.

In every Republican primary held so far where exit polling data is available, Romney has done progressively worse among working class voters.

Obama’s decision to flip-flop on Supe-PACs undermines his efforts to present himself as the righteous campaign finance reformer.

If America wants to maintain a strong military while also reducing our dependence on foreign oil, we need to make alternative fuels commercially viable to strip oil of its strategic status.

The long term implications of Komen's decision will be a more dangerous environment for women who cannot afford to pay for cancer screenings anywhere else but Planned Parenthood.

As a solution to illegal immigration, self-deportation creates more problems than it solves.

China has an extreme advantage over every other country because they have the skilled engineering and semi-skilled labor capacity in numbers that cannot be matched by other nations, even the U.S.

Despite possessing the capacity to engage in full cyber warfare, the United States has predominantly refused to employ such tactics even as the threat continues to grow.

If Iran follows through with its threat to close the Straight of Hormuz, the price of oil could rise 50% or more within days.

The recent Costa Concordia shipwreck highlights the need for tighter environmental regulations of cruise ship travel in the Mediterranean.