Denver hotels are sold out this week with an overflow crowd of delegates, press and VIPS in town for this historic convention. Even the homeless who usually get hotel chits from the city had to relocate to humbler environs. Lucky for me, one of my college friends lives...

The first night of the Democratic National Convention had quite a lineup: among the women speaking were Nancy Pelosi, the first female speaker of the house: Caroline Kennedy, once the first daughter and still the first niece: and keynote speaker, Michele Obama, possibly the first African-American First Lady....

The day before this year's Democratic National Convention, I visited the home of perhaps the most powerful woman in America. For most of her adult life, this woman had a front
row seat on history.

An early champion of civil rights and a lifelong defender of the less fortunate,...