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August 06, 2015 | Judith Browne Dianis |
Politics
Rights under siege: On the 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, activists are fighting back
Two years after the Supreme Court gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, activists in North Carolina and other states keep up the pressure to restore rights.
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African Women Lead: A Pan African Dream
Africans cannot sacrifice democracy for economic gain for the few and pittance for the many. The author—a New Yorker born in Nairobi—says paternalistic male leadership must come to an end, and women lead instead.
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Electoral Advertising is a Women’s Media Policy Nightmare
The author, who directs Media Equity Collaborative, demonstrates why super PACs and the corporations controlling the airways pose a threat to fair media treatment for women.
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Minnesota Women and the GLBT Community Score Electoral Victories
One of two Minnesota women who won seats at a special election last week, Susan Allen becomes the first openly lesbian Native American to be elected to a state legislature.
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December 19, 2011 | Peggy Simpson |
Politics
U.S. Senate Races—Democrats Look to a Strong Field of Women
Several Republican women are also likely to be competitive for open Senate seats in 2012.
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July 22, 2011 | Debbie Hines |
Politics
Why Voter ID Laws Will Disenfranchise Women
The author alerts U.S. women that new regulations could block their vote in the 2012 election—over nine decades after women won the franchise.
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November 01, 2010 | Linda Lowen |
Politics
Anger. Apathy. Frustration. Disgust.
WMC Progressive Women's Voices alumna and commentator Linda Lowen urges feminists to shake off any discouragement and take to their social media sites to help turn out the vote for the midterms tomorrow.
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Why Mama Grizzlies Vote Pro-Choice
WMC Co-founder Gloria Steinem writes about the most crucial economic issues for women on Election Day–and the real Mama Grizzlies.
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Black Women Could Swing November's Vote
For Democrats to succeed in the midterm elections, the President must convince African American women that he needs them to watch his back—and that he'll look out for them— argues blogger and commentator Debbie Hines.
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October 19, 2010 | Shelby Knox |
Politics
Why Christine O'Donnell Is Not a Joke
Drawing on her experience as an “itinerant feminist organizer,” WMC Progressive Women's Voices alumna Shelby Knox explains why the seemingly fringe views of Delaware’s GOP Senate candidate are no laughing matter.
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Letter from a Mama Grizzly to Sarah Palin
Commentator Sally Kohn, somewhat confused about Sarah Palin's recent outreach video, asks here for a bit of clarification.
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Remembering Abeer: Anatomy of a War Crime
In 2006, WMC began a media campaign to ensure that the girl who fell victim to a heinous U.S. war crime in Iraq would not be forgotten. Here, the writer of previous WMC Exclusives about the case describes new information from a recent book by Time magazine’s Jim Frederick.
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Hollywood's Niche for Black Actresses
As a few African American women are celebrated during this award season, pop culture commentator Courtney Young asks how many Hollywood doors are actually open.
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George Tiller: A Legacy of Trust
With jury selection complete, the trial of the man accused of murdering Dr. Tiller began Friday, on the 37th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. The author, an ob/gyn at the beginning of her career, here speaks for doctors who are inspired by the slain man.
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Remaking America
Women’s Media Center President Carol Jenkins witnessed a day that will change her family and our nation, as Barack Obama became the 44th President of the United States of America.
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What Obama Really Means for Black America and Beyond
The soon-to-be first family presents a potent role model. Here, the author, a sociologist and African American Studies assistant professor at Northwestern, describes the other half of the political agenda that is essential if we are to embrace the “politics of personal responsibility.”
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November 10, 2008 | Patricia Sullivan |
Politics
The Vote They Didn’t Want To End
Last week, waking up after a historic election, hundreds of thousands of Americans celebrated as they waited to have the event confirmed in black and white. Washington Post staff writer Patricia Sullivan tells what happened in her town.
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Larry Summers Is Not the Change I Was Expecting
I am the president of the Larry Summers fan club. As the director of the Women in Science and Engineering program at the University of Illinois at Chicago, you might find that odd.
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Voting—Without the Girdle
The journalist and author of a forthcoming play on suffragist Susan B. Anthony explains why not voting should never be an option. A large turnout is as important to the nation, says Lynn Sherr, as any policy choice of the winner.
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October 30, 2008 | Joanne Bamberger |
Politics
Stepping Over the Line
Voters know when a candidate has broken the civility rules. More important, they care. A woman hoping to be reelected to her seat in the House of Representatives may well learn that lesson next Tuesday.
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What Is the True Story of McCain’s Wartime Experience?
Journalists have had years to vet John McCain’s account of wartime heroism in Vietnam. But no real critique of its veracity has emerged from leading media outlets. Reporters and commentators remain remarkably disinclined to investigate a major underpinning of McCain’s argument that he is qualified to be commander-in-chief. Here, historian Mary Hershberger questions why.
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Robin Morgan: ‘When Sisterhood Is Suicide and Other Late Night Thoughts’
Robin Morgan-whose controversial essay for the Women's Media Center on sexism in the primary race, "Goodbye To All That #2," was reprinted on 3,000 sites around the world-expounds here on women's s...
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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 | 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: