Todd Akin

Progress undone on rape

2013-04-07 04:00:00

What we have here is a failure to communicate. Or at least, that's Rick Ross' story and he's sticking to it. The Miami rapper has ignited a prairie fire of controversy with a song called "U.O.E.N.O.," its title a phonetic spelling of an ebonic...

Tea party down but not out

2012-12-30 04:00:00

Reports of the death of the tea party are greatly exaggerated. For about two years now, certain observers have been declaring the demise of this insurgent tendency within the Republican Party. However, despite recent headlines, we should expect to...

Baltimore duo's fight against 'rape culture' takes on Congress, Victoria's Secret

2012-12-19 15:08:13

Rebecca Nagle and Hannah Brancato aren't interested in spilling Victoria's Secret. But the Baltimore-based artists and feminists do want the lingerie giant — and other cultural forces — to tell a different story about sex. Disturbed by...

How Republicans win in 2016

2012-11-25 05:00:00

Last week's column was all about why certain of us (49 percent nationally) continue to identify with the party of individualism and free markets. This week, a related topic: what it will take to increase that 49 percent to 51 percent in 2016. First,...

Nothing unique in Akin's nonsense

2012-08-26 04:00:00

Rep. Todd Akin's fame — more accurately, his infamy — now reaches all the way to the Congo. There, Eve Ensler, the award-winning American author of “The Vagina Monologues” and herself a survivor of rape, wrote an open letter...

Rape and the mind of God

2012-10-29 03:00:00

Indiana's Richard Mourdock, Illinois' Joe Walsh and Missouri's Todd Akin aren't doctors. They are Republicans running for the U.S. Senate or the House of Representatives. But they appear to have special knowledge of how a woman's body works, not to...

Presidential politics and abortion

2012-09-02 10:00:00

Susan Reimer's column abut the Republican platform on abortion again shows her expertise in setting up a straw man and then knocking him down ("Presidential election or abortion referendum?" Aug. 27). The Republican platform comprises about 45 pages...

October surprise: Learning what Republicans really think about rape

2012-10-30 03:00:00

Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock, the Tea Party usurper who took down Sen. Richard Lugar in the Republican primary, created the biggest political buzz last week by uttering the following sentence in a televised debate: "I think even when life...

O'Malley bashes Republicans on jobs on CNN

2012-09-30 06:41:00

Gov. Martin O'Malley returned to the national stage Sunday after a Democratic National Convention speech that received tepid reviews, facing off with Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt over job creation and women's issues on CNN. Questioned by CNN's Candy Crowley,...

Why Romney and Ryan are going down

2012-09-19 00:00:00

Unemployment is still above 8 percent, job gains aren't even keeping up with population growth, the economy is barely moving forward. And yet, according to most polls, the Romney-Ryanticket is falling further and further behind. How can this be?...

For women, reproductive rights are economic issues

2012-09-17 10:47:00

Sensing, perhaps, that they are losing the public relations battle after Senate candidate Todd Akin's forehead-slapping views on "legitimate rape" and the female body's magical ability to guard against pregnancy, Republicans are trying now to focus on the...

Mikulski touts role of women in Congress

2012-09-05 17:03:00

Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, the self-styled dean of the Democratic women in Congress, urged support of female candidates in an address to her party's national convention Wednesday that came as both presidential campaigns sought to court women voters. As...

The success of the "tea party" in wresting the House of Representatives from Democrats in 2010 cemented its place as a political force to be reckoned with, but the tea party itself faced a reckoning in 2012.

2012-12-14 11:31:22

Just a few weeks after winning Missouri's Republican Senate primary, six-term congressman Todd Akin caused an uproar while explaining his views on abortion to a reporter. He argued that a woman's body has natural ways of preventing pregnancy after a 'legitimate' rape.

2012-12-03 07:19:29

Missori Senate candidate Todd Akin?s claim that some biological mechanism prevented women who are victims of ?legtimate rape? from becoming pregnant helped propel Democrat Claire McCaskill to re-election.

2012-11-06 00:00:00