Picture this: your college-bound offspring is due to return home for Thanksgiving break. Instead of an embrace, you’re greeted by an uninvited guest — hours before his plane lands, you test positive for COVID-19. In the thrilling saga of my encounter with COVID-19 during Thanksgiving week, reality decided to outdo fiction. A rollercoaster of tasteless […]

The recent election results in Kentucky, Ohio and Virginia were more than a victory for abortion rights because it was not just abortion that was on the ballot. The debate over reproductive health care is part of a larger conversation about public health itself, and the rights our government should be ensuring to quality, affordable […]

I am 26 years old and about to give birth in Gaza. I am terrified. Nine months ago, my husband, our 3-year-old daughter and I were all filled with joy, and began planning a beautiful future for our small family in a loving home in northern Gaza. I was excited to experience motherhood again. We […]

I do not recall my exact reaction when my husband suggested that we consider home-schooling our children. Laughter seems plausible, particularly since we had no children yet when he casually worked its mention into our conversation. But my sense of home-schooling at that time was mostly that it was for families on the cultural fringe […]

It was one of those mild November days, typical of Washington autumns, the temperature pushing 70. Because I worked nights, I was trying to nap between picking up the 3-year-old at play school and her older siblings at 3. But excited voices interrupting the music on my favorite oldies station jostled me awake, talking of […]

Although it is welcome and overdue that the Supreme Court finally adopted an ethics code for its justices on Monday, the approach is seriously flawed in that it includes no enforcement mechanism. Instead it continues to leave it to each justice to decide whether to be recused in a particular case. Until Monday, every judge […]