The Chance to Make History Again

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…

Climate of Hate

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?”

A milestone for Mikulski, the ‘dean’ of Senate women

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…

Will Mean Politics Drive Good Women Away?

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…