By the end of the week, the House will vote on its version of the Budget Resolution for FY07. On the heels of drastic cuts already finalized for the current year, this Budget Resolution should have ...

Why the media blackout on a major story from the Philippines? Filipino papers are not permitted to cover it? Whatever happened to free press in the west? On the 20th anniversary of the 1986 People...

The biggest news about the sweeping new South Dakota law that will ban all abortions except to save the woman's life - no exceptions to preserve her health or for rape or incest - is that this news ...

It was 1978. Houston, Texas. 1,800 delegates and 18,000 observers and foreign guests assembled for the great National Women's Conference. It was a taste of what the world might be like if we had our...

Betty Friedan died Saturday, February 4, 2006. It was her 85th birthday. Now, after almost three decades of friendship, I find it surreal: writing this remembrance and not a birthday greeting. The s...