Jaclyn Friedman writes for Good: “The Dominique Strauss-Kahn rape case has taken a turn for the complex. Actually, media-frenzied sexual assault allegations are always pretty thorny. Perhaps it’s more accurate to say the case has taken a turn for the eve…
E.J. Dionne Jr. writes in The Washington Post: “An attack on the right to vote is underway across the country through laws designed to make it more difficult to cast a ballot. If this were happening in an emerging democracy, we’d condemn it as election-r…
Katha Pollitt writes for The Nation: “For decades now, older feminists have been griping about young women. They take their rights for granted. They don’t feel sisterhood. They’re not politically active. Now comes SlutWalk, taking the world by storm, wit…
Under the Ryan plan, “if there’s a health catastrophe, “you’re on your own,” said Terry O’Neill, president of the Washington-based National Organization for Women. Many women “have no savings, no ability to pay for this.”
Alex Orlando of the Tampa Tribune writes: A press release from the organization said the point of the rally was to keep the Congress from “block-granting Medicaid, privatizing Medicare, and fast-tracking cuts to Social Security.” NOW President Terry O’N…