GOP Offers to Throw Middle Class, Elderly Over the “Fiscal Cliff”

Richard Eskow writes for Campaign for America’s Future: “The Republican Party has a message for the American people: Meet the new deal, same as the old deal. The GOP ‘counter-offer’ to the President’s fiscal-cliff proposal isn’t really an offer at all: I…

Why I won’t be cheering for old Notre Dame

Melinda Henneberger writes for The Washington Post: “Sexual violations of all kinds happen on every campus, I know, and neither man will ever be found guilty in court; one of the victims is dead and the other, according to the Notre Dame student who drov…

Thoughts on the Murder of Kassandra Perkins

Amanda Marcotte writes for The Raw Story/Pandagon: “Men beat, murder, and rape women not because women are naughty but because the men who do it want to exert control. Murder-suicides are just the most extreme example of abusive men trying to exert the u…

Why are women scared to call themselves feminists?

Mary Elizabeth Williams writes fro Salon: “Katy Perry and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy proudly declare they’re not feminists at a time we need them more than ever.”

Will Michele Flournoy Become the First Female Defense Secretary?

Eleanor Clift writes for The Daily Beast: “t was just a year ago that Michele Flournoy stepped down as under secretary of Defense for policy, the third-highest civilian job at the Pentagon. As the first woman to hold such a senior position in the testost…