McCain Dodges the Birth Control Bullet

Republican Sen. John McCain resisted being dragged into a discussion last week about insurance companies that will cover erectile dysfunction drugs like Viagra but not birth control products. “I certainly do not want to discuss that issue,” the presidential candidate said when a reporter asked him about it on his campaign bus. Carly Fiorina, a […]

Air America’s Sweetheart

Since Rachel Maddow hit airwaves with her eponymous show on Air America in 2004, the former Rhodes Scholar has become one busy politico. Listeners can hear the 35-year-old California native play part logician and part devil’s advocate in the plum listening hours of 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. every Monday through Friday on XM Satellite […]

Female Heads of State: Who Are They, Where Are They?

  We almost did it! France tried and failed. India did it years ago, as did Israel, Great Britain and the Philippines. So did Germany, Chile and Liberia. Even Pakistan. There are 42 countries that have had at least one woman as president or prime minister over the last half century. Here is the current […]

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