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Hillary Evens the Score on the Sunday Morning Circuit
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...
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Sally Field’s Peace Message Breaks Through
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...
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September 06, 2007 | Peggy Simpson |
Politics
Hillary’s Rove Factor
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...
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August 22, 2007 | Kristal Brent Zook |
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Hillary Gets Down
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...
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Bucking an Anti-Terror Law
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...
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August 08, 2007 | Alida Brill |
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Lessons From a Congress Rushing to Recess
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...
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Women Are Half of All Bloggers—But Media Aren’t Noticing
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...
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Title IX—35 Years Later
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...
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Following the Footsteps of Genocide—Mia Farrow and Darfur
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....
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Headscarves and Turkish Politics
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...
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Opting for Family-Friendly Policies
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...
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New Study Explores the Aftermath for Women
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...
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Al Mahaba Radio Speaks to Iraqi Women
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...
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Thoughts on July Fourth—An American Dream Shattered
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...
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SiCKO Hits the House
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...
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A Massive Effort Pays Off—N.Y. Anti-Trafficking Law
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 ...
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Hillary in Book-land
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,...
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Chicago Radio Station Owner at the Crossroads
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...
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Looking to Congress for Justice on Wage Bias
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...
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Women Emerge as Powerful Advocates at UN Environment Conference
This month nearly 2,000 government delegates and representatives from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) met in New York for the UN Fifteenth Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-15). After...
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RECLAIM THE DAY! A Call to Action
Fifteen years ago, in a book defending Clarence Thomas’s selection for the Supreme Court, author David Brock described me as “nutty” and “slutty.” After making millions in book sales, Brock recanted...
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Why the GOP Should Have Listened to Mary Crisp
Mary Dent Crisp’s obituary appeared in the New York Times on April 15. Three days later the Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision overturned core tenets of Roe v. Wade.
The juxtaposition of these two ev...
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France at a Crossroad
Left or right? Woman or man? Ségolène or Sarkozy? These are the choices facing French voters when they take to the polls for the second and final round of the presidential election on Sunday, May 6....
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Stepping It Up, Against Global Warming
Because of her love of large white artic animals and fear for their future, a woman will host a rally April 15 at the Polar Bear Exhibit at the Indianapolis Zoo. In Tucson, three young women have pl...
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Right Candidates, Wrong Question
Even before Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton threw their exploratory committees into the ring, every reporter seemed to be asking which candidate are Americans more ready for, a white woman or a bla...