The Case for Janet Yellen Gets Stronger Every Day
There has never been a woman chair of the Fed, and correcting that inequity is long overdue, but it’s also true that Dr. Yellen is the best person for the job, male or female.
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A Birthday We Can All Celebrate
Despite the propaganda campaigns funded by conservative billionaires, we can guarantee that Social Security is a permanent and dependable source of retirement and disability income.
“Some Other Pretext”: Sexual Harassment & Melissa Nelson
But it would have been easier to find Knight guilty of sexual harassment than it was to find him guilty of sex discrimination and, since I want so badly for Nelson to have won, I wish that’s the route her attorneys had taken.
Fear of a Female Fed Chief
Jonathan Chait writes for New York Magazine’s Daily Intelligencer: “The hard-money cranks of the right have spent the Obama years nurturing fears of incipient inflation that never seems to arrive, yet whose non-arrival never dents their airtight worldvie…
Feminist Taylor Swift: What Will Taylor Say?
Who am I to call Taylor Swift out for only halfway fighting the feminist fight? I’m clinging onto any slight sign of feminism from a woman who is clearly not interested in empowering anyone other than herself.
Plan B for Minors — It’s Not About Sex
Is it inappropriate for 14-year-old girls to be having sex? Of course it is.
Should parents bite the bullet and have the difficult conversation with their young daughters (and sons) about having sex too young? Of course they should.
But would a responsible parent wish to deny their child urgently needed — potentially life-saving — health care?
Of course they shouldn’t.
Racial Diversity Efforts Ebb for Elite Careers, Analysis Finds
Nelson D. Schwartz and Michael Cooper writes for The New York Times: “As a partner and chief diversity officer at Thompson & Knight, Pauline Higgins was not afraid to press the issue of hiring minorities at the 126-year-old Texas law firm. But when s…
NOW to President Obama: Penny Pritzker Appointment is Good, But Still Not Good Enough; More Women Should be in the Cabinet
With President Obama’s appointment of Penny Pritzker to be Secretary of Commerce, his second-term roster of cabinet secretaries is nearly complete. NOW has done the math, and the numbers are good, but not great. The Obama cabinet is only about one-third women.
Fat-Shaming All Around Us
Chloe Angyal writes for The Nation: “In that post I posited that, disturbing though it is, the thinspiration community is simply an exaggeration of the culture in which it exists. A grotesque exaggeration, to be sure, but hardly surprising one in a cultu…
Chained CPI In Obama Budget Divides Democrats
Sabrina Siddiqui and Arthur Delaney write for The Huffington Post: President Barack Obama’s budget proposal divided House Democrats on Wednesday. The budget blueprint includes a Social Security benefit cut that has tepid support from House Democratic lea…