Blogger Marcy Miroff Rothenberg writes on politics and women’s issues. Her book – Ms. Nice Guy Lost – Here’s How Women Can Win– offers a comprehensive recap of the attacks waged on American women’s rights and opportunities by Trump and the GOP since 2016, and a to-do list for fighting back. It’s available from store.bookbaby.com and at Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com, and Goodreads.com.
His presidency just needs to go big. And I mean BIG. Massively big. As in Way Beyond the Green New Deal Big.
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If a non-partisan political strategist were to design the perfect candidate for California’s 25th U.S. House district, they’d probably come up with someone who looks a whole lot like Christy Smith, the current Democratic candidate for that seat. Smith is
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When our founding fathers wrote Article 1, Section 2, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution, they had no idea that a state as geographically expansive as California might one day exist. If
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The Happiest Place on Earth An alarm clock woke me well before dawn on Jan. 20, 2009, as I rested fitfully in a sleeping bag on the carpeted floor of a third-floor
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As a Democrat and a feminist, it felt incredible to celebrate the victory of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris the weekend after the election. My husband and I volunteered for the campaign,
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If a non-partisan political strategist were to design the perfect candidate for California’s 25th U.S. House district, they’d probably come up with someone who looks a whole lot like Christy Smith, the
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One hundred years ago this July, my 6-year-old dad, his 7-year-old brother and their parents arrived at Ellis Island. It was a trip six years in the making, beginning six weeks after
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His presidency just needs to go big. And I mean BIG. Massively big. As in Way Beyond the Green New Deal Big. Everyone who ascends to the American presidency knows that he
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I believe everyone involved in the Katie Hill takedown, including Hill herself, is to blame for where we find ourselves today in American politics.
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As former United States Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul tours the country to promote his latest book – From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia – his
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Here’s what to say to Congressional Republicans who hint they’ve had enough of Trump’s lies, malfeasance & unconstitutionality
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Two good things – and I use the term “good” with a bucketful of irony – seem to have come out of the abject disaster that is the Trump presidency. One is
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