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Speaker Pelosi: Leadership Tested By Fire
The financial meltdown is testing the leadership abilities of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and then some.
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September 30, 2008 | Patricia DeGennaro |
Politics
Palin Power(less)
No one can argue against the need for a strong foreign policy. As a nation, we face challenges ranging from terrorism and climate change to the enduring wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. None of these problems can be solved without building a better relationship with the rest of the world. None can be solved without creative and informed leaders.
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Weathering the Storm, Then Changing Course
An economic storm is descending, and for many, the storm will be bad. While the Bush Administration and Congress wrestle with how to bail out Wall Street, and argue about how softly CEOs of failed financial institutions should be allowed to land, average citizens must leap into the new reality without benefit of 24-karat parachutes.
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Financial Meltdown Sidelines Politics As Usual
Last week's financial markets crises totally eclipsed the 2008 presidential campaign and changed the ground rules.
Briefings by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Be...
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September 15, 2008 | Peggy Simpson |
Politics
Pollsters Grapple With a Sarah Surge
Tracking the women’s vote in this historic presidential election is proving to be tricky.
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September 12, 2008 | Ann E.W. Stone |
Politics
Republicans for Choice Seek Common Ground With Sarah Palin
We at Republicans for Choice (RFC) are strongly pro-choice so we should be upset by John McCain’s pick for vice president of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who is ardently anti- choice. Let me tell you why we are not. Being pro-choice does not mean we are against women who disagree with us. Her choice is her choice.
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September 05, 2008 | Tanya Melich |
Politics
The Republican Wonderland: Down the Rabbit Hole with McCain-Palin
After four days of following the Republican convention, I know what Alice must have felt when she fell down the rabbit hole. The Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota was an unreal place.
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September 04, 2008 | Gloria Steinem |
Politics
She’s Phyllis Schlafly, Only Younger
Here’s the good news: Women have become so politically powerful that even the anti-feminist right wing—the folks with a headlock on the Republican Party—are trying to appease the gender gap with a first-ever female vice president.
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September 04, 2008 | Carol Jenkins |
Politics
Battle Looms for Electoral Votes in the Wide-Open Spaces
While engulfed in gusts of doubt and controversy—and as anticipation intensifies about her prime time speech at the Republican convention tonight (will she address the thorniest of the issues?)—Sarah Palin is not shy of supporters.
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September 02, 2008 | Peggy Simpson |
Politics
As GOP Convention Opens, the Palin Factor
A crusader for abstinence and against abortion now finds herself squarely in the public eye with a teenage daughter who is five months pregnant.
That would be Sarah Palin, the conservative Alaska ...
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August 29, 2008 | Tanya Melich |
Politics
McCain Tries To Grab the History Flag From Obama
The first time I hear a woman has achieved something special, my automatic reaction is to cheer, to think “good, another of us has won.”
Then reality sets in and the questions start.
That is wha...
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August 29, 2008 | Carol Jenkins |
Politics
August 28: We Watched History in the Making
In a dramatically staged closing evening of the Democratic Convention in Denver—with fireworks in his speech and in the night air, persuasive endorsements from generals (men, women, white and black) and real people (women and men with compelling stories, well told)— Barack Obama took control of his campaign for the White House by reminding his supporters it’s about their lives, their children’s futures:
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August 29, 2008 | Peggy Simpson |
Politics
Accepting the Nomination, Obama Takes On McCain
After a month of incoming fire, Barack Obama used his acceptance speech to hit back at Republican John McCain, saying he was out of touch with the suffering of ordinary Americans today.
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August 28, 2008 | Peggy Simpson |
Politics
Both Clintons Deliver for Obama, With an Assist from Joe Biden
It was a one-two punch from the Clintons. Pundits praised their speeches on behalf of Barack Obama with every sports metaphor that exists: a knockout blow; a 10-strike, out-of-the-ballpark coup.
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August 27, 2008 | Adele M. Stan |
Politics
A Nearly Perfect Speech—Hillary Clinton at the DNC
Hillary Clinton approached the podium tonight at the Democratic National Convention with a tall order to fill: to deliver a speech of historical significance that would fulfill the immediate needs of pragmatic politics. Tall or not, the order was filled.
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Michelle Obama Wows the Critics
Michelle Obama talked about parents who struggle to make sure their children can get a share of the American dream. She talked about every-day principles of life, taught by parents and grandparents and passed on to the next generation.
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The View from Stephanie Tubbs Jones’ Turf
It’s a strange truth that national and international news somehow looks different, up close. So I found it to be upon waking up in Ohio last week, where I happened to be working, the morning following the untimely death of Democratic Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones, 58, from a massive brain aneurysm.
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August 23, 2008 | Peggy Simpson |
Politics
Women Welcome Obama’s Choice of Biden
Leaders of key women’s rights groups breathed a sigh of relief at Barack Obama’s selection of Delaware Senator Joe Biden as his running mate.
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In November, Women Will Vote With Health Care In Mind
Women vote for health care, and with good reason.
Today, women across the country are being forced to make impossible choices in the name of health care; sacrificing life and limb so that they can...
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August 20, 2008 | Nichola Gutgold |
Politics
The Clinton Nomination: Historic But Not Unprecedented
That Hillary Clinton’s name is being placed in nomination at the 2008 Democratic National Convention next week in Denver is the subject of much controversy. “Hillary Haters” are pointing to the ongoing Clinton drama. “Hillary Lovers” are rejoicing that she will be recognized for her historic presidential bid.
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Climate Change is a Human Rights Challenge
At the recent G8 Summit, the leaders of the world’s economic superpowers met and agreed that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions must be reduced to mitigate climate change. Their “target” was ambiguous, ...
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August 10, 2008 | Barbara Cohn Schlachet |
Politics
The Edwards Scandal: Sexual Ethics and the Other "Two Americas"
As yet another sex scandal broke involving a powerful male politician, I found it mind-boggling that this too familiar scenario was unfolding once again. In an age of constant media surveillance, didn’t anyone learn anything from the feckless Gary Hart, oh, so long ago?
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August 08, 2008 | Peggy Simpson |
Politics
Obama and Women Leaders Get Down to Business
Barack Obama got a lot of advice from more than 30 leaders of national women’s groups when he met with them in late July. Some columnists have written caustically about the need for Obama to pacify angry feminists who had backed Hillary Clinton.
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Immigration: Waiting for Leadership
Once touted by conservatives as the number one wedge issue, immigration has slipped off the table in these 2008 presidential elections. In part, this is because conservative candidates across the country lost when they tried to make immigrant-bashing a winning issue. (Witness the 2006 losing campaigns of Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania and John Hostettler of Indiana, as examples.)
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Making Strides in Politics and Online
Jehmu Greene, a legendary grass roots organizer, plans next to “look laser-like at organizing young women.