While us Yanks are fretting about the allegedly 'racist' bark of a Supreme Court nominee, Canadians have more pressing concerns -- namely, the bite of one of their top officials ... Read More

Taken out of context, anything can be made to sound dangerous. That's what's happening with Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's infamous "wise Latina" comment that conservatives are calling 'racist.' The Initial ... Read More

Gender and ethnic background aside, why did Obama pick Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court? A short list of her accomplishments, drawn from a White House press release, explains why: More federal ... Read More

President Obama breaks new ground once again with his nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. If confirmed, she'll be the third woman and the first Hispanic on the ... Read More

Like everyone else, finances are on my mind. My family's income has decreased significantly this year, and we're sending our first child to college in the fall. Because most of us ... Read More

Ever wonder where and when our fascination with youth, beauty, celebrity, sex and scandal began? This cultural obsession predates Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, and Paris Hilton by more than a ... Read More

Memorial Day weekend is the official kick-off to summer. So do you have all the necessary tools at hand to optimize your enjoyment of the long hot days ahead? Hammock, lawn ... Read More

How's this for a reality show? Slightly disheveled, sleep deprived moms go up against pinstriped corporate lobbyists to fight for real healthcare reform that benefits women and children. It's not exactly ... Read More

Lobbyists and feminists, take note -- there's a simple way to get politicians to vote in support of so-called 'liberal' policies that promote gender equity. Make sure they have daughters ... Read More

A fight is simmering in the online environment that pits newly-launched Double X (Slate's women's issues site) against Jezebel, (whose tag line is "Celebrity, sex, fashion for women, without airbrushing.") ... Read More

What did House Speaker Nancy Pelosi know about waterboarding and when did she know it? Her Thursday press conference on the issue has stirred up a hornet's nest in Washington, ... Read More

In the ongoing game of "Who is Obama considering for Supreme Court nominee?" my colleague Deborah White, US Liberal Politics Guide, says that the D.C. grapevine is buzzing about Janet ... Read More

It's been more than forty years since Captain James T. Kirk intoned, "Space [is] the final frontier" in the original Star Trek TV series. Space may be the final frontier, ... Read More

Don't get too excited over the prospect of the next Supreme Court nominee possibly being female. Because when it comes to the advancement of women in our society, they giveth ... Read More

The law is lagging behind the internet, and evidence of that widening gap is everywhere. Here's one of the worst examples. An 18-year-old girl's gruesome death in a horrific car accident ... Read More

One of my favorite mothers is not my own. It's my good friend Sue, a single mom raising two kids - one, a daughter in college and the other, a ... Read More

Tomorrow is a big day for Elizabeth Edwards, the woman who's emerged from the dark shadow of her husband's failed 2008 presidential bid and his all-too-public affair. Tomorrow she'll be ... Read More

When it happens between women at a neighborhood barbecue, on a playground, or during a cocktail party, it's called gossip. But when it appears on a political magazine's website, it's ... Read More

Like a bad but highly-rated TV reality show, the confirmation process for a Supreme Court nominee can get "nasty, personal and hate-filled." Those are the exact words that legal issues expert ... Read More

If it were Ruth Bader Ginsberg, it'd be a no-brainer. But since David Souter is the first justice to step down from the Supreme Court, it's unclear whether or not ... Read More