President Obama wasn’t the only high-profile critic of the United States Supreme Court for its ruling in the Citizens United case. Sandra Day O’Connor, who wrote a 2003 decision the law reversed, gave a speech at Georgetown University Law Center a few days ago. Justice Sandra Day O’Connor did not sound happy on Tuesday about […]
Monica Potts
Monica Potts is a former senior writer at The American Prospect. She is working on a book about low-income women in her rural Arkansas hometown. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, New York, Vogue.com, The Daily Beast, The Trace, and Democracy.
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The Rental Breakdown
The sub-prime crisis put a spotlight on homeowners — but renters have suffered from declining housing stock and slashed federal supports.
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Legislating Motherhood.
A few posts down, a commenter took issue with the idea that ordered bed rest was unequivocally bad in the case of a woman who smoked in the beginning of her pregnancy, had problems, but wanted to leave the hospital because she had a job and two young kids. The doctor went to court, which […]
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Learning to be Bad at Math.
A University of Chicago study has found that girls may be learning math anxiety from female teachers who have qualms about their own math skills. Sian L. Beilock, an associate professor in psychology, and her colleagues studied students of both sexes in the classes of 17 different teachers, most of whom were women, and found […]
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Smoking While Pregnant Now a Crime?
A Florida woman ordered by a court to stay on bed rest in a hospital she wanted to leave is still waiting for a ruling on her appeal. Samantha Burton had a miscarriage three days after a judge ordered her to remain at the hospital. But the Associated Press updated the story with the new […]
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Exercising and Transportation Policy.
It doesn’t take much exercise to maintain health. Several studies have shown that, and the newest is published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. It found that women who walked at a moderate pace through middle age were healthier in their post-70 years, and women who walked at a brisk pace regularly had even more […]
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Giving Parents Information on Food.
Perhaps not surprisingly, a study published in the journal Pediatrics shows that parents choose meals with fewer calories for their children when calories are posted on the menus. The study found the meals parents chose when given calorie information had about 20 percent fewer calories than those chosen when parents were not presented with calorie […]
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Walking Away From Bad Debts.
Two gigantic real estate companies, Tishman Speyer Properties and BlackRock Realty, that bought the last sizable chunk of middle-class housing in Manhattan are walking away from the failed project and turning the properties over to their creditors: The surrender of the properties, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, ends a tortured real estate saga […]
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Poverty on the Rise in Suburbs.
The Brookings Institution released a new report this week finding that poverty rose fastest in 2008 in suburbs, particularly in suburban and urban areas in the midwest. It also found that more Americans are now low-income, hovering just above the poverty line. Over the course of this decade, two economic downturns translated into a significant […]
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Trusting Women to Disregard this Ad.
As I’m sure almost everyone knows by now, 2007 Heisman trophy winner Tim Tebow is taking to the airwaves with his mom during the Super Bowl so that they can tell everyone about how she disregarded the advice of her doctors and risked death to give birth to the Football Messiah. Focus on the Family, […]
