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Dorian Friedman

Dorian Friedman is The American Prospect's director of external affairs.

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MORE FROM CONNECTICUT.

Dorian FriedmanAug 08, 2006

MORE FROM CONNECTICUT. At Stratford�s Frank Scott Bunnell High School this morning, those who stopped to share their views spoke with plain, if surprisingly unsentimental, conviction about their choice. �I�ve lived through too many wars, and I want my two young grandsons to have the same opportunity to vote that I�m exercising today,� said Susan Delbene, a professor of nursing at New York�s Pace University who wearily returned to her Connecticut condo at ten o�clock last night so she could vote against incumbent Joe Lieberman this morning.

Mommy Diarist

Dorian FriedmanFeb 10, 2005

On a recent afternoon, Judith Warner -- author of the best-selling Hillary Clinton: The Inside Story and a former special correspondent for Newsweek in Paris -- is sipping organic tea in her sunroom while reflecting on her forthcoming book, Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety (Riverhead). She talks with Dorian Friedman about The Feminine Mystique, French women, and modern motherhood in America.

Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique clearly informed your writing. Is your book in some ways its intellectual successor?

Bipartisanship Remembered

Dorian FriedmanJan 14, 2005

Amid the clatter over “saving” Social Security, it's instructive to look back 22 years -- to a time when an imperiled program was saved by a true bipartisan compromise. Then, as now, a newly emboldened GOP was rewriting the agenda in Washington. But then, unlike now, each side sacrificed for long-term gain.

Business: Ally or Obstacle?

Dorian FriedmanAug 13, 2004

By now, the stirring images are familiar to television viewers: teary-eyed father recounting beloved child's battle with life-threatening illness … child enjoying miraculous recovery thanks to world-class health care at Mayo Clinic … grateful dad's glowing tribute to beneficent employer for picking up tab, supporting family values, and investing in hard-pressed workers like him.

The sponsor? Wal-Mart, epitome of the low-wage economy. Wal-Mart offers health insurance, but the premiums and co-pays are so high that most workers don't take it. Wal-Mart does maximize the publicity value of the fortunate few.