Dana Goldstein

Hillary Clinton tries to one-up Barack Obama and John Edwards today by releasing not only a statement on the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, but a full “agenda for women’s reproductive health care.” Broadly speaking, it covers the same issues of access to abortion and contraception that all three front-runners agree upon. But the […]

John Edwards has just emailed out his statement on the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. It’s much shorter than Obama‘s. Here’s what Edwards had to say: Roe v. Wade was an important step on the road to full equality, opportunity and dignity for women. On the 35th anniversary, it is important to reflect how […]

First First John Edwards, and now the Clinton campaign, are jumping on a statement Barack Obama made to the editorial board of the Reno Gazette that lauded Ronald Reagan. You’ve probably read it elsewhere, but just to reiterate, here are the comments: I don’t want to present myself as some sort of singular figure. I […]

Well, this is basically my fantasy: In the Columbia Journalism Review, Prospect senior correspondent Chris Mooney floats the idea of a union for bloggers, something akin to the Writer’s Guild of America. Like screenwriters, Mooney writes, many bloggers are creating online content that generates a profit, but aren’t sharing in that profit; he names popular […]

Scurry on over to The Nation and read Prospect alum Sarah Blustain‘s excellent feature story on male “post abortion syndrome” — a new religious right push to use junk science and medicine to portray not only fetuses, and not only women, but also men as the “victims” of abortion. The movement is convening conferences and […]

Well, despite what our Well, despite what our esteemed former President believes, the Las Vegas at-large caucus sites for workers unable to get home in time have been declared legal. The teacher’s union, which endorsed Hillary Clinton, believed the extra caucus locations gave members of the Culinary Union, which endorsed Barack Obama, an unfair advantage. […]

The New York Times reports that female small business owners — one-third of small business owners nationwide — are unhappy with new regulations that finally require 5 percent of federal contracts to be awarded to female-owned businesses. The problem is that the rules will apply to only 5 out of 140 industries: national security, international […]

The extremists responsible for The extremists responsible for this protest against Vogue magazine would have one of their own in the Oval Office. Shudder. Here’s what happened: Vogue published a column called “Private Lives” in which the author, Lot Campbell, wrote about the abortion she had 22 weeks into her pregnancy, after her water broke […]

Everyone: Band together and tell Tim Russert you don’t appreciate him perpetuating the Gender v. Race paradigm by focusing a good quarter to a third of the debate on “he said” “she said” flame-fanning between Obama and Clinton. As I was watching this, I thought, “You know what? I finally understand why most Americans hate […]

In comments, Amy Elliott, one of the mothers under 30 profiled by the Post this morning, responds to some of the questions I posed in my earlier post. What she describes is a lifestyle in which having a child young has entailed serious economic challenges — a part of the picture that the Post completely […]