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- Adele M. Stan writes that as the first female vice-presidential candidate for a major party, Geraldine Ferraro -- the daughter of working-class, Italian Catholic immigrants -- quickly learned that it was her gender that counted most.
- Monica Potts writes that Ferraro, like all female politicians, inevitably disappointed progressives, but that's just because we have too few women on the field.
- Kat Aaron says there are as many as 1.4 million Americans who have been unemployed so long they've exhausted their benefits, and they're angry but aren't organizing.
- Kay Steiger reports that as more parents attend college, the need for schools to accommodate them grows.
