When the emphasis is kept on how it’s good for business, early-childhood education is popular. Just don’t call it childcare.Â
Gender & Sexuality
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Reclaiming Our Rights: Going Proactive to End Discriminatory Abortion Restriction
Women are sick of politicians meddling in their health care decisions for cheap political points. Young people are hitting the road to let them know.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Without Passage of Violence Against Women Act 20 Years Ago, We Might Not Be Talking About Ray Rice
But it may take another century before the beating of women by the men in their lives seems as barbaric and unacceptable as slavery does today.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Why Republicans Can’t Solve Their Problem With Women Voters
They’re trying to figure it out, but the problem lies in both their policies and their attitude.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Jindal’s Assault on Abortion Rights the Latest Round in the War on Women
The Louisiana governor and 2016 presidential hopeful has signed into law a measure that would shut at least three of the state’s five abortion clinics.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
‘Leave It to the States’: Admirable Moderation, Or Cowardly Cop-out?
It’s where most Republicans have landed on same-sex marriage.Â
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Can Liberalism Survive the Obama Presidency? (Yes, It Can.)
If Obama is a transformative figure, it isn’t in the ideological way he seemed after his election.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Hillary for Liberals: A Conversation With Walter Shapiro
“As a campaigner, Hillary can do a shot and a beer better than Barack Obama can,” Shapiro says. So there’s that.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
This Is What Happened When I Took the MTA Bus to Pick Up Food Stamps
A response to a much-chattered-about article by an upper-middle-class white woman who was appalled to find herself judged when she applied for food stamps.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Justice Samuel Alito’s Deep Roots in the American Right
He’s the most pro-corporate jurist on the Supreme Court. So decisions that grant companies religious rights or take aim at labor unions come quite naturally to him.
