All posts by Catherine Morrisey
-
A Sliver of Silver in "Silver Linings Playbook": A Look at Mental Illness in Film
Hollywood is notorious for the ways it presents and brandishes mental health to mass audiences. In the rare instances in which a major motion picture...
-
Library of Congress digs into 170 billion tweets
An effort by the Library of Congress to archive Twitter posts has amassed more than 170 billion tweets, which the library is now seeking to...
-
Census Bureau Rethinks Ways To Measure Race
Possible revisions to how the decennial census asks questions about race and ethnicity have raised concerns among some groups that any changes could reduce their...
-
South Korea elects first female president
When Park Geun-hye last lived in the presidential Blue House more than 30 years ago, she was a young, stand-in first lady, serving after...
-
Navajo man wants the nation to hear its official apology
Buried on page 45 of the 2010 Defense Appropriations Act, after pages on the maintenance and operation of the U.S. military, is an official...
-
COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Porn Industry Threatens to Sue over Condom Law
Voters want actors in adult films to wear condoms, but the industry is threatening to sue and shift production elsewhere. Nearly 56% of Los Angeles County voters...
-
Study: HPV vaccine does not encourage sexual activity
Because Gardasil is designed to protect young people against human papillomavirus, a common sexually transmitted disease, some people believe the inoculation gives teens the go-ahead...
-
Dutch Abortion Ship Heads for Morocco
Moroccan police Thursday escorted from its waters a small yacht carrying women’s rights activists claiming to be able to perform abortions on board, after anti-abortion...
-
Using Ketamine for Depression
In any given year, 7% of adults suffer from major depression, and at least 1 in 10 youth will reckon with the disorder at some point...
-
Muslim women on pilgrimage from Nigeria detained in Saudi Arabia
More than 1,000 Muslim women from Nigeria on a religious pilgrimage to Mecca have been turned away or detained in Saudi Arabia over allegations they weren’t...
-
Up to 70% of women in Afghan prisons accused of 'moral crimes'
High-level Afghan government officials have for the first time publicly confirmed that it is not a criminal offense for women and girls to “run away”...
-
'Astonishingly high' diabetes rates found in ethnic groups in UK
Half of all people of South Asian, African and African Caribbean descent living in Britain will develop diabetes by age 80, scientists said on Monday in research...
-
College Course Lumps Homosexuality, Rape, Murder
The Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio faces questions about its accreditation because of a course description that links homosexuality with crimes like murder, rape...
-
Juarez Murders: Mexican Government Unveils Memorial For Slain Women
Mexico’s secretary of state, Alejandro Poire, will unveil the finished memorial for the women slain in Ciudad Juarez Thursday, according to state officials. The structure has been in the...
-
Infant Antibiotics Linked with Heavier Weight
Young farm animals given antibiotics gain weight quickly. Now a new study suggests that the same thing may happen to human infants treated with antibiotics....
-
Iranian Government Bans Women from Universities
A new policy in Iran, which was announced for the first time on August 6, will allow universities to ban women from 77 BA and...
-
Women Fight for Their Rights in the New Tunisia
In Tunisia, a country that has been labeled “the most secular and progressive of the transitioning countries,” that took part in the Arab Spring uprisings, deep...
-
New Program Allows Some Young Undocumented Immigrants to Legally Stay in US
Hundreds of thousands of people who entered the United States as children but without documentation can apply — beginning Wednesday — to remain in and...