The XX Factor : cancer

No Courtroom Drama

Dahlia Lithwick — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:24:00 GMT

Despite the extraordinary long-distance diagnostic skills of Sen. Jim Bunning , R. Ky., who predicted at a Saturday Republican fundraising dinner that she’ll be dead in nine months , Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg took the bench for oral argument this morning,...(read more)

What America Is Getting Wrong about Cancer

Meghan O'Rourke — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:58:00 GMT

I haven’t been on our blog much of late because I recently became one of the millions of Americans who lost someone to cancer: On Christmas Day, my mother died after a two-and-a-half year “battle,” as the locution goes, with colorectal cancer. As many...(read more)

New World's Record for Running, Standing, or Jumping Gall

Melinda Henneberger — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:21:00 GMT

Are we really preparing to underwrite private insurance companies ? I'm sorry, but when did they ever do that for us? In fact, I'd say their current symptoms involve a pre-existing condition, wouldn't you? If we're gonna nationalize this bunch of heartless...(read more)

Just a Couple More Questions for John Edwards

Melinda Henneberger — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:40:00 GMT

Just a couple of questions are clouding my understanding of all this, counselor, and stuff I'd still like to know includes: Was all this going on when you renewed your wedding vows last summer at that intimate backyard ceremony where you wrote your own...(read more)

Don't Count Her Out

Melinda Henneberger — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:43:00 GMT

About a minute into overreacting to Bonnie's completely hypothetical scenario—hello, Elizabeth Edwards is still very much alive!—I see that I may be identifying with her a little too closely, as an oversharing cancer survivor and all. (Plus, my husband...(read more)