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During the past week, according to an AP report, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has reached out to Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Madeleine Albright, and others to discuss how to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict. Meanwhile, a delegation of Palestinian, Israeli, and international women are speaking out in California, New York, and Washington, DC, calling for a new, “consultative approach” to a negotiated agreement.

It seemed like shocking news last week when the telecommunications giant Verizon admitted it has readily allowed national security investigators without warrants to browse customer records on thousa...

Pinky Bhutto—Benazir’s school nickname in Karachi—is coming back. Will she become prime minister of Pakistan a third time? Will three be the lucky number allowing her to complete a full term? Will a...

One thing that definitely hasn’t changed since Anita Hill accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment during the October 1991 hearings that confirmed his seat on the Supreme Court: Thomas is still ...

Consider these two images from recent news events: 20,000 monks marching past Burmese Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s home to protest the democracy leader’s 11-year house arrest and the country’s ...

I watched as much of Hillary Clinton as I could yesterday—it was almost an all day affair. In a well orchestrated media blitz, the Clinton campaign managed to squeeze in lengthy interviews on all fi...

Last night at the Emmy Awards, Sally Field, in accepting her honor for best performance in a dramatic series, gave the best performance as a real-life thinking mother who found herself in the privil...

When Karl Rove took repeated swipes at New York Senator Hillary Clinton last month, she seemed to savor the attack as recognition of her front-runner status. She played with it and got laughs with a...

It was inevitable that Senator Barack Obama would be asked the usual, much ballyhooed question at his appearance earlier this month before the National Association for Black Journalists conference a...

He announced in Tagalo: “This is serious. You are with the Taliban.” The roomful of people at the airport in Manila glanced at us askance. I wished that the Taliban would discover the Philippines gove...

Remember the excuse about not being prepared for class? “I’m sorry teacher, the dog ate my homework.” The tally of Democratic votes that extended the power to engage in surveillance without warr...

If you get your news from, well, the news media, you can be forgiven if you didn’t know that nearly 800 women gathered in Chicago last weekend for the third annual convention of BlogHer, an online c...

When, 35 years ago this past June, Richard Nixon signed into law the Educational Amendments of 1972, no one paid much attention to a short section on gender equity that has become popularly known as...

One late evening earlier this month in New York’s Central Park, Mia Farrow sat on the stage of the Delacorte amphitheater, her trademark blond hair loose to her shoulders on either side of her face....

The largest ever demonstration for the rights of women in the United States took place the spring of 2004 when slightly over a million people marched in Washington, D.C. This spring women’s rights s...

In a recent article and a follow-up blog on women’s work patterns, two Washington Post writers cling to the traditional media framing of the difficult options facing a mother as being within the rea...

Some women displaced by Hurricane Katrina have had to choose between finding basic shelter and guarding their personal safety. Of the estimated 142,000 New Orleans apartments or houses destroyed b...

Bushra Jamil, co-founder of Radio Al Mahaba, the first and only independent women’s radio station in the Middle East, has questions. Lots of them. “Why on earth would America come in and get rid o...

I remember like it was yesterday. Every time I would act out one of my mischievous schemes, my mother and father would quickly remind me of their sacrifice. “We came here with two suitcases—that’s i...

It’s ironic, but outside of hospitals and day care centers, perhaps the best place to acquire some kind of illness on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., was Michael Moore’s press conference on Capitol H...

Earlier this month, Governor Eliot Spitzer, flanked by New York state legislators, signed into law the strongest state anti-trafficking legislation in the country. Depending on the source—including ...

At first glance, the impact of the latest two mega-books on Hillary Clinton seems neutral if not mostly positive for her. She appeared a relaxed, commanding figure in the second Democratic debate,...

When civil rights activist Medgar Evers was murdered in 1963, more than 50,000 callers flooded WVON (1690 AM), then known as “Voice of the Negro”; so many callers, in fact, that they caused a meltdo...

Key congressional Democrats plan to take up the challenge by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to overturn what she called the court’s “parsimonious reading” of civil rights laws banning wag...