Reid: ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Repeal Depends on GOP Cooperation

J. Taylor Rushing writes on The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room: “Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Wednesday that a critical Defense Department authorization measure that contains a repeal of the controversial “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) poli…

Huge Midterm Turnover Makes House More of an Everyman’s Roost

Philip Rucker, Alice Crites and Lucy Shackelford report in The Washington Post: “[T]the more than 100 newly elected lawmakers who will soon descend on Capitol Hill for freshman orientation collectively do not look like America. Flipping through their por…

Fast Track to Inequality

Bob Herbert writes in The New York Times: “The clearest explanation yet of the forces that converged over the past three decades or so to undermine the economic well-being of ordinary Americans is contained in the new book, ‘Winner-Take-All Politics: How…

O’Donnell and Coons Denounce Gawker

NOW’s statement denouncing tabloid website Gawker’s anonymous article on Christine O’Donnell is mentioned in the New York Times’ The Caucus: “Both candidates’ campaigns have denounced an anonymously written story posted Thursday on the gossip Web site G…

When Women Don’t Vote, Extremists Win

NOW President Terry O’Neill writes on The Huffington Post: “Today people vote in one of the most pivotal elections ever for women’s rights. We are faced with the very real possibility of taking a major step toward losing one of our hardest won and most d…