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Lipstick on a rogue
Even women who are profoundly tired of the fact that we have to be overqualified to win are turned off by a celebrity pol who still will not admit she was wildly underqualified.
A false choice in health care battle
Where exactly do you draw a line when the opposition keeps moving it? How do you compromise with those who are uncompromising? If prochoice Democrats turn back reproductive rights, it proves that they can be rolled by intransigent opposition. And once rolled, it's all downhill.
Afghanistan’s forgotten class
After the fall of the Taliban, many Afghan women shed their burqas, opened schools, entered Parliament. Equal rights were written into the constitution. But slowly, as America turned to the disastrous misadventure in Iraq, Afghan women's freedoms were casually traded in like chits for power.
Women, if you’re happy and you know it ...
Feminism made me happy? Not, I assure you, in a permanent state of good cheer. It opened doors. It opened our eyes -- to everything including what still needs to be done.
The $250 donation to elders
Today, elders are half as likely to be poor as are children. So, why
exactly would the president want to give $250 to every senior at every
income while poor children remain in deep trouble?
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