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What About Sarah Palin is Political, Exactly?

Megan McArdle and I don't agree on a great deal about what the world should look like. But we do agree that we don't like Sarah Palin--mainly because she doesn't like us. Dropping her name in a (virtual) room of city-bred eggheads with ovaries is like ...

From DAYO OLOPADE, Double X,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Sarah Palin,  Megan McArdle,  Newsweek,  U.S. Republican Party,  John McCain

Separating history from hype | Dayo Olopade

, a new documentary about Barack Obama's campaign for president now airing on HBO, gets up close. We see Obama sitting on a curb, alone, moments before taking the podium at an event. We see Michelle Obama at home in Chicago with her children. We see ...

From DAYO OLOPADE, Comment Is Free,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Michelle Obama,  Barack Obama,  HBO,  John McCain,  David Axelrod

What Does the Obama Marriage Look Like After Barack?

Having had time to read, re-read and digest the substance of Kantor's reporting, a few key moments stand out. The one involves the sacrifices Michelle Obama has made on the road to her husband’s presidency. Emily flagged the anecdote about bringing ...

From DAYO OLOPADE, Double X,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Michelle Obama,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Sasha Obama,  White House,  HBO

The Old Girls' Network Fights the Taliban

By the autumn of 1997 persistent lobbying against the Taliban by the Feminist Majority had influenced the two most important women in the Clinton administration, Madeline Albright and Hillary Clinton. When Albright visited a refugee camp in Peshawar ...

From DAYO OLOPADE, Double X,  20 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Taliban,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  United Nations,  U.S. Democratic Party,  US State Department

Should We Segregate Teen Moms in High School?

It is a Chicago public school full of energy and spirit. It has about 800 girls, and 115 of them have something in common – something you might find disturbing. ... All those young ladies are moms or moms-to-be at Paul Robeson High School. It's not a ...

From DAYO OLOPADE, Double X,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Paul Robeson

Should High Schools Segregate Teen Moms?

It is a Chicago public school full of energy and spirit. It has about 800 girls, and 115 of them have something in common – something you might find disturbing. ... All those young ladies are moms or moms-to-be at Paul Robeson High School. It's not a ...

From DAYO OLOPADE, Slate,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Paul Robeson

The First First Lad Tells All

My partner, Marlon Reis, and I have been together for more than six years. We never saw ourselves or our relationship as anything different from those of other members of Congress, and while notable, the gender of my spouse has little to do with the ...

From DAYO OLOPADE, Double X,  15 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress

Sanitary Pads: A Universal Human Right?

Here's a regular statistic, and then a shocking one: Every month, a large percentage of the world's adult population menstruates. But in emerging markets, that group can scarcely afford the protection. Women worldwide are no longer exiled to tents and ...

From DAYO OLOPADE, Slate,  9 Oct 2009

Tampons: A Universal Human Right?

Here's a regular statistic, and then a shocking one: Every month, a large percentage of the world's adult population menstruates. But in emerging markets, that group can scarcely afford the protection. Women worldwide are no longer exiled to tents and ...

From DAYO OLOPADE, Double X,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  David Benedictus,  David Letterman

Bill Clinton Speaks on Hillary, Women's Rights in New York

I've spent a crazy week in New York City covering the United Nations General Assembly and the accompanying intense crush of foreign languages, traffic jams, and foreign policy. At the fifth annual Clinton Global Initiative in New York, former president ...

From DAYO OLOPADE, Double X,  23 Sep 2009

Related Topics: United Nations General Assembly,  Bill Clinton,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Barack Obama,  Julia Ormond

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