Adele M. Stan

While early speculation is that today’s endorsement of G.O.P. presidential contender Mike Huckabee by Focus on the Family founder James Dobson threatens to divide the Republican Party, I see it differently. Looks to me as if Dobson has fired off the warning shot to frontrunner John McCain for the only way in which McCain will […]

WEST ORANGE, N.J.–In an WEST ORANGE, N.J.–In an earlier post, I reported the mayor of Jersey City complaining that he was having trouble “getting our votes counted.” Apparently, there were problems statewide with voters gaining access to the polls, according to the New Jersey chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU-NJ), which reported that […]

WEST ORANGE, N.J.–Here at the Obama campaign’s primary results watch party at the Wilshire Grand Hotel, the crowd is upbeat, despite their candidate’s loss of the New Jersey popular vote. Why? Because a couple of months ago, nobody much expected him to do anything but lose big here. Instead, it seems, according to projections WEST […]

WESTFIELD, N.J.–With the top WESTFIELD, N.J.–With the top five delegate-rich Super Tuesday states for Democrats having sizable and vocal openly LGBT populations, both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are making their pitches. Yesterday, Hillary Clinton’s campaign posted, on a lesbian social networking site run by supporter Hilary Rosen, a statement by the candidate titled, “A […]

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.–In a few hours, EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.–In a few hours, Barack Obama‘s friends among the Left-Coast deadheads will line up for a concert by the surviving members of the Grateful Dead in support of the candidate. Here in Jersey, a whole different king of gathering just took place in an arena that is […]

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Actor EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Actor Robert De Niro just took the stage at the Izod Arena in the Meadowlands — home to the New Jersey Devils, Bruce Springsteen concerts and, possibly, a pair of cement shoes belonging to Jimmy Hoffa — to make a speech in support of Barack Obama, […]

For the last few days, I’ve sat on my hands as the feminist movement’s leading lights sought to smooth over the latest intramural wrangle over whether one could be a good feminist and vote for the man in this Democratic presidential primary. So far, little smoothing seems to have taken place, leaving this most dangerous […]

At the Women’s Media Center Web site, At the Women’s Media Center Web site, Suzanne Braun Levine and Mary Thom examine the presidential candidacy of Hillary Rodham Clinton against the backdrop of the passionately lived career of Bella Abzug, the late congresswoman and world-renowned women’s rights leader. (Levine and Thom recently published a delightful oral […]

Here in the loud cluster of audio equipment and colorful characters known as Here in the loud cluster of audio equipment and colorful characters known as radio row at the Manchester (N.H.) Radisson, this morning was marked by a veritable swarm of Clinton surrogates, including (but not limited to) longtime advisor Ann Lewis, Women’s Outreach […]