Because they are both firsts, I’m afraid we might be holding Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to impossible ideals. Both possibilities come shamefully late. But, unless the impossible happens they decide to run together, we only get to choose one. When Barack Obama gave his victory speech after winning the Iowa caucuses, he was, almost Read More
What is going on with Hillary Clinton’s surrogates? Between Andrew Young, Gloria Steinem and Bob Johnson, they’ve been doing a lor more harm than good. None of those artless endorsements comes close to the shrillness of the New York State chapter of the National Organization of Women’s tirade, which calls liberal stalwart Ted Kennedy a Read More
These occasionally enlightening, mostly exhausting conversations regarding gender and race have highlighted the often uneasy historical relationship that has existed between feminists and civil rights activists, progressive movements that still often managed to give shelter to the most insidious kinds of chauvinism, patriarchy and bigotry. Ari Kelman, one of the history professors over at edgeofthewest, Read More
