Stories by Ellen Goodman
Ellen Goodman is a member of the Washington Post Writers Group.
We plan our own pensions and assemble our own cheap furniture. I pray the Internet ad for a do-it-yourself eye surgery kit is a hoax.
Posted on Jul 18, 2008
We spend too much time arguing with each other about teens and sex, and too little time talking to kids about healthy sexuality.
Posted on Jun 26, 2008
Retrofitting women to make them sexually attractive and "marriageable" is more than a Hollywood fad. It's life or death for many.
Posted on Jun 20, 2008
The call to understand the polygamous sect as just another unique corner of multicultural America is relativism run amok.
Posted on May 23, 2008
Pairing Clinton and Obama (in either order) might produce a ticket that's greater than the sum of its parts.
Posted on Jan 18, 2008
The recent spate of pregnancy films, from
Juno to
Knocked Up, all implicitly send the message that the right choice is to keep the baby.
Posted on Jan 3, 2008
The Bush administration is trying to take credit for a recent breakthrough in stem cell research, when, in reality, they just ended up delaying the process.
Posted on Dec 7, 2007
New technologies are allowing parents to take watching their children to creepy, new heights.
Posted on Nov 9, 2007
When 40 kids were asked to create a new town, was it possible for them to escape the model of cutthroat competition, class divisions and unrelenting consumerism?
Posted on Sep 29, 2007
The view of polygamy as just another lifestyle choice has been countered by the growing evidence of communities rife with abuse.
Posted on Sep 24, 2007
With technology becoming far more sophisticated and pervasive, sports is awash in ethical dilemmas. So where does a lightning fast amputee fit in the spectrum of Barry Bonds with his alleged doping and Tiger Woods with his better-than-perfect Lasik eyes?
Posted on May 29, 2007
Representative Pete Stark is the highest-ranking politician in American history say publicly that he doesn't believe a "supreme being" -- but believes that real political courage is saying, "Let's tax the rich and give money to poor kids."
Posted on Mar 24, 2007
If men had been the only voters in Missouri, Montana or Virginia, we'd have a Republican Senate. It's time for the Dems to listen to what women were voting for in the 2006 elections.
Posted on Nov 24, 2006
It tells you how bad things are when wrenching approval for contraception out of the Bush administration counts as a smashing victory.
Posted on Aug 14, 2006
In times of war, babies become the new bling.
Posted on Jul 27, 2006
Can Dems reach the 'how-am-I-going-to-make-it-today-moms'?
Posted on Jul 28, 2004
