Gerald Friedman writes on truthout: “It is not cost pressures on providers that are driving up health-care costs; instead, costs are rising because of what economists call transaction costs, the rising cost of administering and coordinating a system that…
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…
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…
Michelle Chen write for Colorlines: “About 163 million female children have gone ‘missing’ in Asia, and the ugly fact is stirring lots of new conversation about where and why they’ve disappeared.”
Amanda Hess writes on Good: “It’s been a month and a half since a 32-year-old hotel maid accused then-IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her in his swanky Manhattan suite. And each time a new fact trickles into the public record, comm…