Martha Burk writes on The Huffington Post: “April is the month every year when the paychecks of women working full-time, year-round catch up with what men earned by the previous December 31. This year it’s April 17. There are a number of causes for the p…
Karen Finney writes for The Hill: “Recently, some Democrats have backtracked on the phrase ‘war on women.’ They shouldn’t. This is not the time to make a political calculation about terminology out of concern some voters view the word ‘war’ as too harsh.…
Ruth Marcus writes in The Washington Post: “The Mommy Wars are a conflict that is never really extinguished. It doesn’t take much, as Hilary Rosen discovered, for the embers to erupt. This mommy, for one, is tired of the stale debate over Who Made The Ri…
Jason DeParle reports for The New York Times: “The poor people who were dropped from cash assistance [in Arizona], mostly single mothers, talk with surprising openness about the desperate, and sometimes illegal, ways they make ends meet. They have sold f…
Petula Dvorak writes for The Washington Post: “Regardless of how you feel about abortion, the way Todd Stave flipped the script on his bullies is pretty dang clever. . . . [H]is tormentors crossed the line last fall when a big group showed up at his daug…
