Filed under: Barack Obama, Abortion, Gay Rights, Woman Up, Culture
After winning the Nobel Peace Prize for his commitment to global concord, President Obama may face his fiercest battles for tranquility at home. Under his administration, could the culture wars be reignited with renewed intensity?Filed under: Woman Up, Culture
Gene Roddenberry's "Star Trek" television series foresaw much of today's technology. Before you held your cell phone, underwent non-invasive surgery, or used a GPS in your car, technologies like these were used on the series. But can the franchise have meaning during the Great Recession?...
The reported sexual harassment at "The Late Show With David Letterman" was slimy enough, but Nell Scovell's piece in Vanity Fair plumbs a new depth of workplace foulness in late-night TV. Wonder how many women actually write some of the...Filed under: Woman Up
Jonathan Bird of Wylie, Texas, had just returned from a fishing trip with his fiancee's eldest son late Saturday night when a truck came barreling through his neighborhood. Bird apparently yelled at the teen drivers to slow down. The teens should have taken his...Filed under: Woman Up
Americans may not agree on troop numbers in Afghanistan, a resolution in Iraq, universal health care, or how to pull the jobless rate from the cliff at 10 percent, but will they find agreement in the possible threat of an apocalypse?Filed under: Woman Up
The party-crashing scandal involving Tareq and Michaele Salahi is a total misunderstanding. Really. Social secretaries of a certain delicate age may have shuddered uncontrollably as they prepared their Thanksgiving soirees thinking about the Virgina socialites invading President Obama's first "state" dinner. But those "fossils...Filed under: Woman Up
Of course the Tiger Woods scandal is disappointing. Adultery always is. When marital betrayal occurs, it isn't just the spouse who tastes the bitterness. Think of the children, the close family friends, the business partners, the neighbors. Adultery is like that. Its foulness isn't...Filed under: Woman Up
I was prepared to drop my evening news habit this month with the departure of Charlie Gibson on "World News." Gibson was part of my dinner-preparation time, a favorite domestic ritual when I'm home -- folksy and cozy, like a warm...Filed under: Woman Up
I intend to toast the end of this decade with gratitude and a kiss, but a gleam is in my eye for 2010 and beyond. Will we learn from our heroines, heroes, villains and failures? At the start of a new decade, and at...Filed under: Woman Up, Culture
Long before Michelle Obama strolled down Pennsylvania Avenue on Inauguration Day in Isobel Toledo's shimmering day dress and coat or graced the cover of Vogue, another Chicago woman demonstrated how formidably fashionable black women can be.Filed under: Woman Up
