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Elizabeth Warren’s Moment

Brent Budowsky writes for The Hill: “Elizabeth Warren, one of the most brilliantly qualified candidates in modern history to be passed over for an important post, . . . appears poised to run for the Senate seat once held by the man we miss so much, the l…

Was Asking Bachmann About ‘Submission’ a Sexist Question?

Jodi Jacobson writes on RH Reality Check: “The question arose out of [Michele] Bachmann’s own declaration that she has been guided to make decisions about and throughout her career by her God as commanded by her husband, describing it as his idea and his…

A Gillibrand Campaign: More Women in Politics

Raymond Hernandez writes in The New York Times: “As a girl, Kirsten E. Gillibrand learned about politics from her grandmother, Dorothea Noonan, a secretary in the New York State Legislature who defied the norms of her day and organized other women into w…

Bachmann, Palin and a new season for sexism

Deborah Siegel writes for CNN.com: “Just as the 2008 Democratic primaries offered us a chance to examine the way the media and others in the popular culture frame a race between a woman and an African-American, the Republican primary season is giving us…

How states are rigging the 2012 election

E.J. Dionne Jr. writes in The Washington Post: “An attack on the right to vote is underway across the country through laws designed to make it more difficult to cast a ballot. If this were happening in an emerging democracy, we’d condemn it as election-r…