For many of the women newly elected to Congress, their first months on the job have been all about kinship. They wore white to their first State of the Union address, and encouraged other women in the Congress to do...

Actress and social activist Marlo Thomas created an enduring legacy out of a project called “Free to Be . . .You and Me.” The book and record came out in 1972 and has never been out of print....

On a sunny Palm Sunday afternoon, at the border between the United States and Mexico, world-famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma sat down with his cello, out in the open, and played excerpts from Bach’s cello suites....

Something like a knee-jerk reaction occurs when I talk about equality with people who have been assuming it means just one thing: being the same....