"Who of a certain age could forget when a bookish black woman named Anita Hill addressed a Senate committee of 14 white men..."

"... and candidly spoke of graphic sexual harassment by then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas? The explosive, race-tinged hearings...

For comparison purposes.

Are those comediennes funnier than these ? And let's try to think deeply about gender politics. There's something distinctive about ...

Suzy Favor Hamilton — exposed as a call girl — had gotten in a couple other PR jams.

For one thing: "She became famous during the Sydney Olympics in 2000 for intentionally falling to the track in the 1500 meter final wh...

"From the civil rights and feminist movements of the 1960s and onward, young men – and young white men in particular – have increasingly been asked to yield what they’d believed was securely theirs."

"This underlying fact, compounded by the backdrop of violent entertainment and easy access to weapons, creates the conditions for thous...

5 hours of political television not live-blogged last night.

The Madison Common Council debated and voted on a plan to light the Southwest Bike Path... which is actually called the Southwest Commuter P...

"Fight over Susan Rice holds political risks for White House."

So say Anne Gearan and Steven Mufson , writing in the Washington Post, prompting me to think the opposite . I say we're being played by ...

"Students told to disavow 'American-ness, maleness, whiteness, heterosexuality.'"

Asserts a headline at The College Fix that's getting a lot of attention right now. See Memeorandum and Instapundit . But the text, eve...

"Everytime I think the Democratic race card players could not get more vile..."

"... more deranged, more patronizingly demeaning to blacks, someone manages to defy even my vivid imagination." This time, it is t...

Republicans "got whiter and more male, and we now have a majority minority and female Democratic caucus."

Wasserman Schultz says. "We have to double down in 2014. We’ve got to make sure we recruit more women for office, because It’s not jus...

Chris Christie on "Saturday Night Live."

Last night: He does a nice job with the comedy — even with this eyes locked tellingly on the teleprompter. And here's something that sur...

"To batter this woman because they don't feel they have the ability to batter President Obama is something we the women are not going to stand by and watch."

More sexism displayed in efforts to defend Susan Rice, this time from Wisconsin member of Congress Gwen Moore . I called attention to Presid...

"It seems obvious that the evolution of social issues from crime and welfare to abortion and gay marriage has hurt the Republican Party."

Writes John Hinderaker , reminding us what the "social" issues were in the Reagan era Crime and welfare were serious public policy...

New Hampshire, the most womanly state of all time.

All female: the Governor and all the members of Congress (2 Senators and 2 members of the House) .

"We need a third party to save this country. Not Ron Paul and the Ron Paulites. No."

"We need a legitimate third party to challenge the current system that we have, because I don’t believe that the Republican Party... ha...

Christina Hoff Sommers: "The Affordable Care Act mentions 'breast' 44 times, 'prostate' not once."

"It also establishes an elaborate and expensive network of special programs to promote women’s health. Programs for men are nowhere to ...

"I'm free and I love to be free/To live my life the way I want/To say and do whatever I please..."

Consider the use of the old Lesley Gore song — "You Don't Own Me" — for political, pro-Obama purposes: Now, I love old Lesley...

Voting is like having sex... says the Obama campaign.

With this ad, featuring Lena Dunham (of the HBO show "Girls"): So, really, who do you want to have sex with, ladies? That is the q...

The age-old problem of theodicy is injected into the American political discourse in a way that God is allowing to happen for reasons unknown.

"A theodicy... is an attempt to resolve the evidential problem of evil by reconciling the traditional divine characteristics of omniben...

"Stick with me, Ann," Barack Obama emails.

"Ann -- I don't want to lose this election." Not because of what losing would mean for me -- Michelle and I will be fine no ma...

Romney takes the lead in the Politico tracking poll for the first time since last May.

With 49 to Obama's 47%, Romney has picked up 3 points since the last poll, a week ago. Women propelled Romney’s move into first place in...