My 92-year-old mom's politically engaged, widely read, a clothes horse and a quick draw with a cocktail shaker. Here's how ...

New Yorker writer David Denby has come up with four names to essentially fashion a group biography around. He picked Mel ...

Where are you from? BETTY FRIEDAN: I was born and grew up in Peoria, Illinois, which you might say is the middle of the middle of America, what used to be a synonym almost: "hick," "hayseed" or ...

"Borrowed Babies" runs Wednesday through Saturday night at Illinois State University's Westhoff Theatre. Read John D.

The first edition of Betty Friedan’s 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique was pro-family and pro-men. It made no mention of contraception or abortion. It was a questing philosophical work ...

Can this really be what happened? And yet Leaf’s take on two defining personalities of second-wave feminism — Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan — makes sense. This is a vital play ...

And what a celebration it is! For his project Denby chose four of the most brilliant and consequential American Jews in the ...