In a Washington Post op-ed, Harold Meyerson answers the question "So what does ACORN actually do, anyway?" and expands readers' perspective on the group that has become a favorite right-wing target.

Tracy Clark-Flory write for Salon's Broadsheet about the "extreme challenges facing girls' education worldwide" and why "it's a fight worth fighting."

NOW President Terry O'Neill is quoted in this Associated Press article by David Crary about the debate over health care reform and abortion coverage.

Matthew Creamer reports for Advertising Age: "A group of French politicians led by an expert on eating disorders wants to put warnings on airbrushed photo spreads in magazines as well as doctored shots used in advertisements and packaging."

Kimberly Seals Allers writes for Women's eNews: "If African American, Latino and Native American babies are too often in jeopardy, that means that this country is miserably failing women of color, and black women in particular, in the process of birthing healthy babies."

Crystal Renn almost starved to death to be in Vogue. She finally got there, after she embraced her natural curves. By Kate Harding for Salon.

NOW President Terry O'Neill is quoted in this article by Mimi Hall for USA Today on how the new White House Council on Women and Girls is assessing every government agency to see if its programs do enough to benefit women.

In a New York Times op-ed Barbara Ehrenreich and Dedrick Muhammad write: "What do you get when you combine the worst economic downturn since the Depression with the first black president? A surge of white racial resentment, loosely disguised as a populist revolt."

Sandra G. Boodman writes for the Washington Post, "When Devin Miller, leader of the abortion rights group Medical Students for Choice at Virginia Commonwealth University, heard about the slaying of George Tiller, a Kansas physician who performed late abortions, she 'took a step back' to ponder her future. The second-year student plans to become an obstetrician-gynecologist or family physician and expects she would sometimes terminate pregnancies. But the May 31 death of Tiller, who was shot in the head at church, allegedly by an antiabortion activist, has left the 23-year-old deeply shaken."

Natasha Singer writes for The New York Times: "Two pharmaceutical giants are vying for the billions of dollars up for grabs in the market for vaccines against the human papillomavirus, or HPV, a sexually transmitted infection that can cause cervical cancer and genital warts.

NOW President Terry O'Neill was interviewed for this article by Gil Kaufman on MTV.com about singer Chris Brown's first televised interview since his assault of then-girlfriend Rihanna in February.

In a posting on Buzzflash.com, Meg White analyzes how job loss in the U.S. impacts men and women and the media's coverage of this issue.

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow talks with NOW President Terry O'Neill about this latest right-wing scare tactic aimed against health care reform.

CNN's Wayne Drash and Curt Merrill cover protests outside Dr. LeRoy Carhart's clinic in Nebraska. Local NOW activists as well as national President Terry O'Neill participated in this event.

NOW President Terry O'Neill is quoted in this piece from the Women's Health Policy Report on how "abortion coverage is becoming the latest battleground in the debate over health care reform."