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Men's Rights

Earlier this month DoubleX, Slate's short-lived female-oriented publication (launched six months ago and about to be folded back into the parent site as a women's section), ran an article ringing the alarm about the dire threat posed by the power ...

From CATHY YOUNG, Reason,  23 Nov 2009
Related Topics: John Archer,  New York University,  Boston Globe

The Rise of Communist Nostalgia

The fall of the Berlin Wall twenty years ago was one of the most exhilarating events of the 20th Century. No one could fail to be moved by the joy of people who tore down a loathed monument to tyranny. Today, when all that remains of the Wall is a ...

From CATHY YOUNG, Reason,  16 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Pew Research Center

Kennedy's Big Government Paternalism

Ted Kennedy's death of brain cancer at 77 could not have occurred at a more symbolic moment. By the end of his life, the late senator became the lion in winter of old-style American liberalism—and one of his final political acts, at the 2008 Democratic ...

From CATHY YOUNG, Reason,  31 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Robert F. Kennedy,  Edward M. Kennedy,  Barack Obama,  Rupert Murdoch,  U.S. Republican Party

A Russian Reign of Terror?

The abduction and murder of human rights activist Natalia Estemirova in the conflict-ridden Northern Caucasus has been the latest crime to shake Russia's embattled liberal community—and raise the question of whether today's Russia lives not just under ...

From CATHY YOUNG, Reason,  3 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Anna Politkovskaya,  Dmitry Medvedev,  Vladimir Putin

Was Obama's Russia Trip a Success?

While the mainstream media have hailed the advances in U.S.-Russian relations supposedly achieved on Barack Obama's trip to Moscow, some conservative commentary has depicted Obama as a pushover if not a dupe for the Kremlin. The cheerleading and the ...

From CATHY YOUNG, Reason,  16 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Dmitry Medvedev,  New York Post,  Charles Krauthammer,  NATO

Battered women - and men

LYNN Rosenthal, a veteran of the battered women’s advocacy movement, was named to the new post of White House counsel on violence against women on June 26. On the same day, a conference opened in Los Angeles disputing the basic tenets of the movement ...

From CATHY YOUNG, Boston Globe,  15 Jul 2009
Related Topics: White House,  National Institutes of Health

Post-summit Moscow report: Business as usual

In my Weekly Standard article before Obama's trip, I said that the most likely outcome would be "business as usual."  And, evidently, so it is. Russia will not agree to tougher sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program in exchange for a new ...

From CATHY YOUNG, Real Clear Politics,  14 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama

Palin is Not the Answer

Sarah Palin's announcement of her resignation as governor of Alaska may be the end of her political career or, as some speculate, the real beginning. What seems clear is that Palin is not conservatism's new hope but its dead end. In recent days, this ...

From CATHY YOUNG, Reason,  10 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Bristol Palin,  John McCain,  Ronald Reagan,  Sarah Palin,  White House

The (second) Georgian war will not take place?

Will there or won't there be another Russian attack on Georgia?  Since I raised the issue in my Wall Street Journal op-ed a few days ago, a follow-up. Why?  For one thing, Piontkovsky (not a big Obama fan) thinks "Obama has done what he could," both by ...

From CATHY YOUNG, Time Magazine,  9 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Serzh Sargsyan,  Wall Street Journal

Obama in Moscow, cont'd: A strange appointment

It includes 13 working groups headed by corresponding high-level Russian and American officials (e.g., Health: Tatyana A. Golikova, Minister of Health, and Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services).   One of the pairs is rather eyebrow- ...

From CATHY YOUNG, Time Magazine,  7 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Vladislav Surkov,  Kathleen Sebelius,  National Security Council,  Bernard Madoff

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