If It’s Still the “Economy, Stupid”, Why Are So Many Lawmakers Focused on Our...
If all those politicians ran for election and re-election in 2012 on fixing the economy or creating more jobs or making public education better for our kids, why are they SOOOOO focused on passing...
View ArticleHillary Watch: Huma Abedin as 2016 Foil?
As pundits run out of things to discuss when it comes to the current Anthony Weiner aka “Carlos Danger” scandal, trash talk has turned to Weiner’s wife Huma Abedin and her boss — yup, Hillary Clinton....
View ArticleAnthony Weiner & Kristen Chenoweth: It’s Not What You Think
As the whole Anthony Weiner/”Carlos Danger” saga is about to run its course, Kristen Chenoweth gives us the best commentary yet, borrowing from her role in the musical Wicked, and sung to the tune of...
View ArticleWould You Say ‘No’ to Vogue & Glamour for Your Daughter?
Image via vogue.com If you’re like some of us, you enjoy the occasional guilty pleasure of a woman’s magazine. There’s certainly no shortage of them. But what if having them on the coffee table is...
View ArticleMiley Cyrus vs. Syria Mass Killings News Coverage: Seriously?
Really, what more needs to be said? Though we do wonder — where is the media criticism for Robin Thicke and his role in the televised debacle?
View Article“I Have a Dream” 50th Anniversary
As the nation is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech,” we just thought we’d bring you a couple of inspiring images from the MLK Memorial in Washington, D.C....
View ArticleFood Stamps & American Hunger: The Real Story
16 million American children went to bed hungry in 2012. How could that be in a country where food is plentiful? Part of the problem is this — in recent federal budget battles, funds for the...
View ArticleBroad Side Pic of the Week: WHO Wrote Your School Absence Note?!
Kindergartner Alanah Poullard is one lucky girl. Not only did she get out of a day of school to visit the White House, but President Obama himself wrote her a school absence excuse note. All we have to...
View Article5 Things You’ll Really Miss in a Federal Shutdown
Welcome to the federal government shutdown, day one! No one is really surprised that Congress failed to agree on even a temporary spending package to keep the federal government running. While many...
View ArticleBroad of the Week: Elizabeth Warren Gives the GOP the “What For”
Tired of the government shutdown? So are most people. And, believe it or not, so are most of our Capitol Hill lawmakers. But no one can give the opposition a run for their money like U.S. Senator...
View Article“We Should All Be Feminists”: Getting to Know Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Feminists are women who cannot find husbands.” Or, according to author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, maybe not! In her recent TEDx talk, Adichie, who is also the newst voice to grace Beyonce’s feminist...
View ArticleWhen Girls Dare to Challenge the Educational Status Quo
Recently, Maryland Delegate Ariana Kelly posted an exchange on her Facebook page between her daughter and one of her daughter’s teachers. Ariana has kindly allowed us to post that letter here ate The...
View ArticleIf Madeleine Albright Got Crap for Driving Carpool, What Hope is There for...
When former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was nominated as the first woman to hold that position in 1996, who was more worried she wasn’t qualified because of her gender — leaders in the...
View ArticleHey, Hobby Lobby. Looks Like You’ve Got Some Senators P.O.’d
Do female bosses get to restrict their male employees’ access to Viagra? Those little blue pills are covered in most insurance plans because it’s supposedly prescribed for a medical condition. For...
View ArticleYour Need for a “Fixer” Has Been Fixed, at Least When it Comes to Health Care
A friend of The Broad Side recently shared with us that she and her husband could continue their quest to have a child thanks to the Affordable Care Act. Under their old health insurance policy, they...
View ArticleWork/Life Happiness in Seven Minutes?
Who else is tired of hashing out work/life balance? Whose life “balance” is better? Whose is right? It’s a topic that we never seem to tire of, yet, we get annoyed that we are still talking about it....
View ArticleValentine’s Day Economics
The East Coast is, once again, being devastated by another extreme winter storm (strangely, not being called “snowpocalypses” this year). As things are spinning out of control with snow and ice and...
View ArticleHaving It All: “It’s a Bullshit Question”
Having it all. Yet again, the phrase has reared its ugly head as the theme of an article this week in the New York Times Sunday Magazine about Texas State Senator Wendy Davis, who is also a candidate...
View ArticleFeminism in Afghanistan: Yes, Virginia, It Does Exist
Some American feminists think there’s no such thing as feminism in Afghanistan, or other parts of the world, because it doesn’t look like what it is in the U.S. or that it isn’t what they think it...
View ArticleNo Job For a Woman: Women War Correspondents in WWII
Would you risk your safety and your life to bring war stories to the world? Women reporters in dangerous places aren’t so surprising today. Think Christiane Amanpour in Iran and Iraq, Lara Logan in...
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