Articles
House Revises Abortion Bill After Rape Controversy
A House proposal to ban almost all abortions after a fetus reaches the age of 20 weeks has been revised to include rape and incest exceptions after the...
India Remembers the Judge Who Helped Toughen Up Rape Laws
It is rare that a person's legacy feels as immediately relevant as the one left behind this week by India's former Chief Justice J.S. Verma
Rape of 5-Year-Old Indian Girl Sparks New Outrage, Old Questions
Dozens of news vans are again camped in front of a major hospital in New Delhi, jockeying for space behind the yellow police barricades so ubiquitous in the...
Indian Students Develop ‘Rape-Prevention’ Underwear
Three engineering students in India have developed lingerie that they claim has “anti-rape” features that will help women protect themselves against possible...
Photo Essays
Stars Behind Bars: LIFE With the Prisonaires
For much of the 20th century and well into the 21st, much of popular music — rock and roll, R&B, hip hop — has banked on the appeal of the rebel, the outsider...
American Atrocity: Remembering My Lai
Through the centuries, whether combatants have fought with spears, bows and arrows, muzzle-loading rifles, naval cannons, long-range bombers, nuclear weapons or...
Time.com Specials
Top 10 Abuses of Power
Dominique Strauss-Kahn — the chief of the International Monetary Fund and a likely candidate for the French presidency — was arrested on rape charges in New...
