Former NOW President Patricia Ireland writes on The Huffington Post: “My family on both sides hails from Chicago, and my Grandpa Shay followed the city’s politics with great enthusiasm. His prediction that a Black mayor would succeed Richard J. Daley was…
Chicago Now blogs about the possibility of Carol Moseley Braun becoming the next mayor of Chicago: “But what has not been talked about by mainstream media or political pundits is that Braun’s election would not only make Black history, but female politic…
Paul Krugman writes in The New York Times: “When you heard the terrible news from Arizona, were you completely surprised? Or were you, at some level, expecting something like this atrocity to happen?”
Ben Pershing writes for The Washington Post: “With a new Congress beginning, hundreds of new lawmakers will be sworn in Wednesday. But only one will break a record that’s lasted four decades. At the moment Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) completes the o…
A commentary by Minnesota NOW President Shannon Drury for the Minnesota Public Radio: “Last month, Huffington Post contributor Peggy Drexler posed the following question to her readers: “Will mean politics scare off good women?….I worry that women at…