Ever read the credits of your favorite TV show or movie? Chances are it was written by a man. A recent report from the Writer’s Guild of America West, “Whose Stories Are We Telling?” shows us why. T...
This month nearly 2,000 government delegates and representatives from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) met in New York for the UN Fifteenth Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-15). After...
Selling anxiety sells medicine. Drug companies know this and profit by it. But are women benefiting as much as the industry’s bottom line?
The pharmaceutical industry spent much of its $4.2 billio...
“Hip-hop is the CNN of the ghetto”—words spoken by legendary artist Chuck D of Public Enemy years before Puffy became a household name and bling a term used by actual CNN anchors. Serving as a mirro...
I’ve been thinking about Mother’s Day, and why I and others, who are not mothers, identify with this day just as much as if we were.
Of course, it’s partly because we owe our lives and love to our...
Jewish mothers have gotten a bad rap—for being overprotective, overfeeding, intrusive, manipulative, guilt inducing. The list is easily extended. It is almost impossible to remember that the Jewish ...
Fifteen years ago, in a book defending Clarence Thomas’s selection for the Supreme Court, author David Brock described me as “nutty” and “slutty.” After making millions in book sales, Brock recanted...
Mary Dent Crisp’s obituary appeared in the New York Times on April 15. Three days later the Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision overturned core tenets of Roe v. Wade.
The juxtaposition of these two ev...
The summer movie season kicks off this weekend with Spiderman 3 descending onto thousands of screens at a multiplex near you. Hollywood prognosticators predict the biggest grossing summer EVER with ...
Left or right? Woman or man? Ségolène or Sarkozy? These are the choices facing French voters when they take to the polls for the second and final round of the presidential election on Sunday, May 6....