10 Ways to Have a Baby
Doree Shafrir has contributed to The New York Observer, The New Yorker, Slate, and The Awl, and is the co-author of Love, Mom. She is a former editor at Gawker. Her website is www.doreeshafrir.com.
From embryo adoption to sperm washing, making a family is easier-and more complicated-than ever. Doree Shafrir on parenthood's new frontier.
A Gossip Girl's Pregnancy Triumph
Deborah Schoeneman has been a columnist for The New York Observer, New York magazine, and Condé Nast Portfolio and served as editor-in-chief of Hampton Style magazine. Deborah's the author of the novel 4% Famous and moved to Los Angeles last year to break into Hollywood writing and learn how to surf.
TV writer/producer Jessica Queller, who made a splash with her memoir about her preventative double mastectomy, talks for the first time about being pregnant, and why it would never have happened if she hadn't quit the show.
New York Times' New Columnist Is Full of It
Michael Kinsley is a columnist for the Washington Post. He was founding editor of Slate. He has been editor of The New Republic and Harper's, editorial and opinion editor of the Los Angeles Times, American editor of The Economist, and managing editor of the Washington Monthly. He has written for numerous publications including the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, and Condé Nast Traveler. For six years he was co-host of CNN’s Crossfire.
Ross Douthat, the conservative pundit, was just named a columnist at the New York Times op-ed page. Now, if only he'd listen to the point about stem cells and IVF.
A 'Breakthrough' in the Stem Cell Debate
Michael Kinsley is a columnist for the Washington Post. He was founding editor of Slate. He has been editor of The New Republic and Harper's, editorial and opinion editor of the Los Angeles Times, American editor of The Economist, and managing editor of the Washington Monthly. He has written for numerous publications including the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, and Condé Nast Traveler. For six years he was co-host of CNN’s Crossfire.
Just because two sides disagree over the issue of stem-cell research doesn't mean both arguments should be given equal weight.
Octomom Reveals Doubts
She just doesn't seem well, this Octomom. In this excerpt from the 'Today' show, she expresses second thoughts - a little late - about having a huge family. Visit the Today show for more video.
The Other Banking Crisis
Justin Clark is a writer based in Los Angeles. A graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism, his work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle and LA Weekly.
Sperm banks around the globe are facing a crippling shortage of inventory. The product of a sperm donor writes on how the industry screwed itself.
Nobody Loves My $20,000 Baby
Daniel Nester is the author of How to Be Inappropriate, a book of humorous nonfiction. He lives in upstate New York.
My wife and I spent two years and thousands of dollars trying to get pregnant. Does that make us such horrible people?
The Global Infertility Crisis
Anita L. Allen is the Henry R. Silverman professor of law and professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. She writes about everyday ethics, health, and the right to privacy for scholarly journals and the popular press.
Women around the world are finding it more and more difficult to conceive, creating what one expert calls an "infertility time bomb."
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
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