Readers’ budget plans are instructive for politicians

The editors of The Washington Post write: “In an editorial Tuesday, we challenged the presidential candidates to present specific, mathematically sound plans to reduce the federal deficit. We also invited readers to share their ideas.” They note that wom…

At This Girls’ Camp, Crafts Take a Drill Press

Motoko Rich writes in The New York Times: “Just over a quarter of the 11.7 million workers in manufacturing are women. But Gadget Camp, a workshop for girls in this suburb west of Chicago, is part of an effort to change that.”

Was Asking Bachmann About ‘Submission’ a Sexist Question?

Jodi Jacobson writes on RH Reality Check: “The question arose out of [Michele] Bachmann’s own declaration that she has been guided to make decisions about and throughout her career by her God as commanded by her husband, describing it as his idea and his…

A Summer of Choice: What We Learned in Germantown

NOW Action Vice President Erin Matson writes on RH Reality Check: “[A]bortion rights and reproductive justice activists around the country took Operation Rescue’s threatened actions in Germantown [Md.] very seriously. Grassroots activists and organizatio…

Rick Perry’s warped tax ‘injustice’

Rith Marcus writes in The Washington Post: “The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center estimates that 46.4 percent of households will pay no federal income tax in 2011. This is, for the most part, not because people have chosen to loaf. It’s because they are work…