The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of….

Women in America will have to find an answer for the pressures of work and family, but if you really care about women's issues you have to think abou….

One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer. But it is….

If immigration reform passes, it'll be a big victory for sanity - nobody really believes it's healthy for a country to have millions and millions of ….

When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in..

At first, I felt bad judging an entire state by one county political official, but then I found out Morrison had also helped screen public school tex….

The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpet….

My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association..

Unfortunately, he was about as deep as a melted ice cube..

We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating things for a….

Sarah Palin is treated like a bimbo sometimes, but she has never given the public the respect they deserve. She acts silly and doesn't know stuff. Sh….

My all-time favorite program in my entire life was 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'.

Personally, I'd be really glad to have a national conversation about whether to outlaw most forms of birth control. For once, the kids and their gran….

I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involv….

Certainly people in empty places feel they have the right to do what they want to their property and don't necessarily see the effect of their pollut….

Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know….

I would walk a thousand miles To feel your hugs and see your smiles But then one day we had to part The hardest day, it broke my heart But I still se….

There have been tons of politicians who were slow to accept equal rights when it meant changes in the established social order. Many eventually came ….

You reduce illegal immigration by making it harder to get jobs here, or easier to get jobs south of the border. This idea that we can't pass an immig….

If you live in a place that you perceive to be a crowded place, you appreciate government; you see it as this thing that protects you against crime, ….

The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn't possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars….