Jehmu Greene, a legendary grass roots organizer, plans next to “look laser-like at organizing young women.

After a grueling 18-month primary campaign, the race for the president of the United States has begun. True to form the candidates have come out sparring.

For women in the military, this election season has the potential either to focus a spotlight on long-neglected needs or to continue rendering us invisible. Due to our military training, we often struggle to exercise our right to speak out, but now we need systemic and systematic change both to do justice to service members and to create healthier communities for everyone.

As the Bush administration unveiled a publicly financed plan to "save" mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, local residents at a town hall forum in Miami were calling for criminal prosecutions of the loan-shark mortgage brokers and investment firms that profited from poor people's housing despair.

Living up to predictions by Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold of "the caving of very large numbers of Democrats [on] an awful piece of legislation," the Senate remains poised to pass the Protect America Act (PAA) in a form that will allow telephone companies and internet providers immunity from prosecution for forking over consumer information to government spymasters. The bill confers immunity that would be retroactive to the first days of a warrantless spying program originated by the Bush administration following the 9/11 attacks. In an interview with The Media Consortium's Brian Beutler, Feingold attributed Democrats' weakness to "this constantly pulsating fear of being accused of being soft on terrorism."

“I am so, so, so excited,” my wildly effective 18-year-old intern Krystie Yandoli told me, sitting on my couch and leafing through a new anthology in between bites of a chocolate croissant. “At firs...

Madeleine Kunin, former Vermont governor and ambassador to Switzerland, says she travels the country with “missionary zeal,” offering tactics to elect more women to political office. She is well awa...

For Swanee Hunt, chair of the Hunt Alternatives Fund and former U.S. ambassador to Austria, women must be allowed to function as peacemakers in crisis spots around the world. She testified on Capito...

It’s not clear what the NARAL Pro-Choice America PAC intended when it came out strong for Barack Obama, three weeks before the last primary. At a time when there is much end-game talk and when one ...

Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are senators with Ivy League law degrees. They each have a strong, vocal spouse and can stump speech, debate and wonk their way around policy with ease. These t...

With the polls tightening in both Texas and Ohio, turnout in Hispanic and black communities is seen as a crucial factor in whether Hillary Clinton survives for another day or Barack Obama extends hi...

She’s a former model turned pop star and her list of exes includes Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton and Donald Trump. No, she’s not the star of a new reality TV show—although you could be forgiven for thin...

As Hillary Clinton grapples about how to re-energize her campaign and regain her momentum, pundits are already opining about what her race for the White House means for future Madam President aspira...

It wasn’t precisely a shock—word had been circulating for some time that a shake-up was imminent in the Clinton ranks. What wasn’t certain was who would win the battle for final say: the women hired...

The journalistic defense on the day after Super Tuesday, when once again media awoke red-faced at its miscalculations, was that the Obama story is just too good a story not to fall for. That’s why...

The political and media hype about the Kennedy family’s anointment of Senator Barack Obama eclipsed the Clinton campaign’s boots-on-the-ground organizational work in the 22 states with Democratic pr...