Isn’t The National Journal embarrassed to call this journalism?  In conjunction with it’s Decision Makers issue, The National Journal has published “Obama’s Team:  the Face of Diversity,”  celebrating a rosy picture that – at least in the case of women — is contradicted by National Journal’s own data.   In his article highlighting the results of a survey of 366 of “the President’s Decision Makers,” James A. Barnes confesses to discarding 49 data points, people who previously worked for Bush and are mostly “white guys”.  Having thus distorted the data, Barnes concludes that Obama is a …

The author is an assistant research professor at the Political Economy Research Institute, UMass-Amherst. Her commentary, originally published at Dollars & Sense, is her own and does not necessarily represent the opinion of The New Agenda.
Create jobs. End the recession. Save the environment. What else can transforming our fossil fuel economy to a clean energy economy do? How about create unprecedented employment opportunities for women? Readers of Linda Hirshman’s New York Times editorial may think this is a dubious claim. She sparked a debate over the gender bias in Obama’s …

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While I was watching reruns of a family-friendly sitcom the other afternoon, a commercial came on advertising longer and fuller eyelashes. Usually commercials with promises of pumping up eyelash volume are reserved for mascara. This commercial, however, was for the prescription medicine, Latisse. …

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Chris Brown is a convicted felon after pleading guilty to assaulting Rihanna “by means likely to produce great bodily injury” in a deal that keeps him out of jail.  Has justice been served?
On The Daily Beast, Linda Fairstein, former chief prosecutor of the New York County DA’s Office Sex Crimes Unit says:
While some will complain that he got off with “only” probation, the disposition in this case is harsher than my 30 years of prosecuting batterers had me betting it would be. In the average first arrest of a …

This piece is posted at The Huffington Post.
This is part 3 of a 3 part series including Sexism Against Conservative Women is Still Sexism and Letterman Quietly Ushers in the Next Wave of Feminism.
Timing is everything. Throughout his illustrious career, David Letterman had a knack for timing the delivery of his words. Unfortunately for Letterman, his timing with the national psyche was not so fortuitous. Had he delivered those same jokes a year ago, the words would have simply vaporized into the air with roars of …

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Like many people around the world, I too have been following the events unraveling in Iran since the election results of the June 12th election were announced.  As many of you know, the information that has been filtering through to us in recent days has not been easy to come by considering the crack down on foreign media presence in the country. One story that seems to have exploded onto the international scene due to the common citizens …

According to a new study by RTI published in the Journal of American College Health:

20% of undergraduate women are sexually assaulted during college and an additional 10% experience attempted assault
Over half of  assaults occured when the women were “incapacitated and unable to provide consent”

In sheer numbers, that means more than 97 thousand students  are victims of alcohol-related sexual assault EVERY YEAR, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.  And the problem is getting worse, with binge drinking having risen now to 45% of students.
Many colleges are implementing aggressive education and …

Cross-posted with permission from The Northern Light. Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and not necessarily The New Agenda.
Imagine a world where you have no voice simply because of the social caste you belong to. Imagine a world where you cannot sit in a popular restaurant simply because of the color of your skin. Imagine a world where you are not allowed to show your forearms or ankles, but must cover your entire body simply because of your sex. These are not alternate realities, but parts of …

What's New: Paula Dockery of Florida and Loretta Sanchez of California have said they're considering runs. Kay Ivey of Alabama officially has announced.
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CNN asks: “Is Feminism Obsolete?” I’m asking: “Is CNN?”
Carol Costello of CNN filed a story last week titled Is Feminism Obsolete? Here the video that goes along with her article:

This refrain: “where are the feminists” is frankly, well, getting kinda old. How many more nights do we have to endure Bill O’Reilly, Greta Van Susteren and the rest of the Cable folks talking about the end of women’s advocacy?
I have two theories on what is afoot here. One is that the folks at FoxNews …