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Just after lunch on a Wednesday in June, 64 midwives and midwives-in-training were assembled in a classroom at the Columbia School of Nursing in Manhattan, performing abortions on dragonfruit. Tools were laid out on sterile sheets, just as they would have been if the patient were an actual person and not an exotic fruit. There were forceps to stabilize the “uterus,” a long plastic dilator to open the “cervix,” swabs, “iodine” (soy sauce), lidocaine syringes, and the manual vacuum aspirator, whic

At a workshop last month, 64 midwives practiced performing abortions on dragonfruit while organizing around midwifery as "an act of resistance."

Revisiting Allan C. Carlson’s The “American Way”: Family and Community in the Shaping of the American Identity two decades later.

It’s Susan B. Anthony Day. Here’s how women’s suffrage changed the world. Bryan Schonfeld, Sam Winter-Levy A statue of women’s rights pioneers Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Sojourner Truth in Central Park during a snowstorm in New York City. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images) On Feb. 15, 1820, 201 years ago today, the famous American suffragist Susan B. Anthony was born in Adams, Mass. This year, her birthday follows the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which banned denying the right to vote “on account of sex.” In November 1...