family values

The roots of “protecting children” in U.S. political rhetoric lie in efforts to defend white supremacy.

White evangelicals have long been attracted to the conservative media's militant politics and regressive gender roles.

Any effective soul-searching must take into account the history of white American Christian support for white supremacist power.

Trump’s family separation policy belongs to a much longer history of U.S. government forces taking children from families that don't match the American ideal.

Strengthening family ties has been key to overcoming nativism — and in 2020, it can do so again.

“Very fine people”—fathers and husbands, as well as mothers and daughters—have always been central to the work of white supremacy.

Women’s role in the 1920s KKK can teach us about racism today.

Jenny Hendrix on the 'Naughty Nineties,' the decade in which America rediscovered sex.

A review of "Divided We Stand: The Battle Over Women’s Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics."

Donald Trump's children aren't the only family members with political power in the Trump administration.

How “undue burden”—a concept nurtured by anti-abortion groups and championed by the first woman on the Supreme Court—has eroded the right to choose.

The scandalous history of sex-ed movies.

The story of the man who introduced ice cubes into our beverages.

Politicians have often sought to remedy educational panic with remedies that do more harm than good.

A pop star’s road map to decadence.

In 1950, the Sullivinian Institute was created to push the boundaries of psychoanalysis. By 1980, its therapists and patients had become a small paramilitary.

The second wife of Thomas Edison, she viewed domestic labor as a science, calling herself a "home executive."

Proposition 6, better known as the Briggs Initiative, was the first attempt to restrict the rights of lesbian and gay Americans by popular referendum.

The problem no longer has no name, and yet we refuse to solve it.

Fifty years ago, zealots preaching misogyny and homophobia—led by an accused sexual predator—took over America’s largest Protestant denomination.