Obama Gives GOP Reason to Hope for New Grand Bargain
Steven T. Dennis and Humberto Sanchez writes for Roll Call: “The pall that hung over the Capitol last week after Congress failed to do anything about the sequester has lifted — if only a bit.”
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WOMEN LEAD: An International Women’s Day Message from Uganda
Celia Tusiime Kakande writes for Global Health Impact: “For most of my life, women in Uganda—as in most countries—were treated as inferior to men. Girls were less likely to be educated than their brothers, and had little control over the direction of the…
Democrats re-re-re-reintroduce Equal Rights Amendment … but shhhh, don’t tell anyone
Kaili Joy Gray writes at The Daily Kos: “This week, Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez introduced S.J.RES.10: ‘A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to equal rights for men and women.'”
Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us
Steve Brillwrites in a special report for TIME: “When Sean Recchi, a 42-year-old from Lancaster, Ohio, was told last March that he had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, his wife Stephanie knew she had to get him to MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Stephanie’s…
It’s time to overturn DOMA
President Bill Clinton in an editorial for The Washington Post writes: “In 1996, I signed the Defense of Marriage Act. Although that was only 17 years ago, it was a very different time. In no state in the union was same-sex marriage recognized, much less…
