Parental Alienation Not A Mental Disorder, American Psychiatric Association Says

David Crary writes for the Associated Press (via Huffington Post): “Rebuffing an intensive lobbying campaign, a task force of the American Psychiatric Association has decided not to list the disputed concept of parental alienation in the updated edition…

Costly Phone Calls for Inmates

The New York Times writes in an editorial: “Members of Congress and civil rights groups are pushing the Federal Communications Commission to rein in telephone companies that, in many states, charge inmates spectacularly high rates that can force their fa…

Standing up for teachers

Eugene Robinson writes in The Washington Post: “Teachers are heroes, not villains, and it’s time to stop demonizing them.”

Women’s Issues Once Had GOP Support, Democratic Lawmakers Say

Laura Bassett writes on The Huffington Post: “Decades before lawmakers were debating access to birth control on the House floor, Republicans and Democrats actually agreed on issues such as equal pay and family planning. But today’s Republican Party has m…

Military still standing after end of don’t ask, don’t tell

David Crary writes for The Washington Post: “They are images that Americans had never seen before. Jubilant young men and women in military uniforms marching beneath a rainbow flag in a gay-pride parade. Soldiers and sailors returning from deployment and…