If it feels like women’s progress in the workplace is stuck, that’s because it is. In 2002, women earned 80 cents for every dollar earned by men. Last year, after 20 years, there was two cents of progress – compared to the progress of the 1980s and 1990s, when the pay gap narrowed by 15 […]

Tiptoeing around the democratic process, Indiana’s Republican legislature has become the latest of that ilk to slap its local school librarians with an idiotic book ban. Snuck into law behind closed doors, the partisan Hoosier law requires librarians to pull books that the learned lawmakers consider “harmful to minors.” Just to juice up the ignorance […]

The Trump rally promoted by CNN [but paraded as a “town hall”] included the inevitable references to the former president’s piggish remarks about women. Kaitlan Collins dug in on the famous Access Hollywood videotape in which the former president claimed that a rich celebrity could grab a woman by her privates and get away with […]

Can he get away with this, too? A New York jury award of $5 million for sexual abuse and defamation would be enough to sink any normal candidate for high office. But Donald Trump is no normal candidate. In the wake of the jury verdict, he did it again – that is, he again attacked […]

I’m a child of privilege. Not the privilege of money [I come from a family of small-town working people]. But it was my privilege to grow up in the public schools of Denison, TX. There I received the rich blessings of dedicated classroom teachers, a diverse student body, playground socialization, librarians, coaches, cafeteria and custodial […]