My mother’s birthday was March 4. She turned 100, becoming a centenarian. My friends stop for a moment trying to do that calculation in their heads because the arithmetic doesn’t work automatically—...
We like to believe that today, we have discarded Puritanical punishments in favor of a far more humane public sphere. Yet issues of stigma and shame remain powerful cultural forces that continue to ...
If you wanted to make someone feel helpless, hopeless, even crazy, one good way to do it would be this: Teach them that others will value them mostly for being thin and being nurturant, put them in ...
I work full time, but my evenings are spent writing about and promoting Hillary Clinton on the Internet. Sometimes well into the wee hours of the morning. I may be just a volunteer, but I’m one of m...
Women in the Middle East working for women’s rights and peace are subjects all but invisible in the U.S. media. In her book, Unveiled: How an American Woman Found Her Way Through Politics, Love and ...
In a story widely picked up in the U.S. media, Lord David Trimble—once an Ulster Unionist Partyleader, now a member of the Conservative Party—while speaking to The Daily Telegraph this weekend, dism...
I hadn’t been to my homeland, Iraq, since so many professional Iraqi women started to be assassinated, including one of my good female friends in fall of 2004. In February I traveled the country to ...
Hillary Clinton reassembled much of her core constituency to win three of four contests Tuesday for the Democratic presidential nomination, including the big prizes of Ohio and Texas. Barack Obama w...
With the polls tightening in both Texas and Ohio, turnout in Hispanic and black communities is seen as a crucial factor in whether Hillary Clinton survives for another day or Barack Obama extends hi...
She’s a former model turned pop star and her list of exes includes Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton and Donald Trump. No, she’s not the star of a new reality TV show—although you could be forgiven for thin...