Katha Pollitt writes for The Nation: “[T]he difference between a stay-home mother and a welfare mother is money and a wedding ring. Unlike any other kind of labor I can think of, domestic labor is productive or not, depending on who performs it.”
The Editorial Board of The Washington Post writes: “The impact of this landmark law, as Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said last week in urging its passage, has been ‘remarkable,’ with the annual incidence of d…
Mallary Jean Tenore writes for Poynter: “[Sara] Ganim started covering Penn State’s sex abuse scandal as a 22-year-old, long before it became a national story. She broke the story that a grand jury was investigating Penn State Assistant Football Coach Je…
Eugene Robinson writes in The Washington Post: “Not all overheated political rhetoric is alike. Delusional right-wing crazy talk — the kind of ranting we’ve heard recently from washed-up rock star Ted Nugent and Tea Party-backed Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.)…
Editors of The New York Times write: “An encouraging new report shows a big decline in the rate of teenage births. . . . This good shift is largely the result of an increase in teenagers’ use of birth control — a fact that Congressional Republicans igno…
