This month, Rwanda made global history when it became the first nation where women outnumber men in parliament. And according to a newly-released UN study, there has been a marked increase in women’s political participation worldwide. Yet for all the advances women are making on the global front, women’s political participation is lagging far behind […]

With yesterday’s ouster of Sallie Krawcheck from Citi, the prostration of Wall Street’s triad of powerful women was a mission completed. The announcement, amid a week of devastating shake-ups in the financial sector, hit a particular nerve: Krawcheck had asked that clients be paid back for Citi’s defective investments – an ethical response to the […]

2008 will go down in the history books as a rollercoaster of an election season, one that has highlighted at times both the strong spirit of our democracy and the divisions among our nation’s citizens. Yet today, on the anniversary of 9/11, I’d like to remind our country of the importance of a time when […]

What’s amazing about Senator John McCain’s choice of Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate on the Republican ticket has nothing to do with her family, with her possible membership in the Alaska Independence Party (a goal of which was to move the state toward secession from the U.S.), her level of experience with the […]