In a New York election, talking back to the Tea Party

E.J. Dionne writes in The Washington Post: “Both the leaders and rank-and-file of the Republican Party devoutly believe ‘the people’ gave them a mandate last November to slash government, including that big-government health-care program known as Medicar…

Women’s Voices Missing From Federal Budget Negotiations

On a conference call with reporters, National Organization for Women President Terry O’Neill said the coaltion has relayed its concerns directly to the White House, and she believes its members may be granted a meeting with staffers. “Obviously we do…

Women Warn Budget Talks Should Not Be All Male

Roll Call quotes NOW President Terry O’Neill from a conference call with reporters: “Women are not prominently there at the meeting. We are concerned that the disproportionate impact on women of the proposed budget cuts is not at the center of the anal…

Lara Croft, the Navy SEAL? Maybe someday.

Anna Holmes writes for The Washington Post: “The policy against women assigned to ground combat units has been in effect since the beginning of the U.S. military. . . . But as circumstances change — asymmetric wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; higher number…