Very little media fanfare greeted the May appointment of Helena Williams as interim CEO of New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority, which moves millions of people a day on dozens of interlocking transit systems. But I had met Helena years ago in her capacity as president of the Long Island Rail...

If I worked at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, I would ask to be put in charge of monitoring the financially and self-promotion-driven epidemics...

As the cable news continues to try to chew up Judge Sonia Sotomayor before she becomes Justice Sotomayor, at Women's Voices for Change we have Diane Vacca, formerly of Talking Points Memo, to make sense of it all. Read below to get truly grounded amid all the madness.

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When the dinosaurs roamed the earth, just after the Coming of PantyHose and the Death of the Girdle, when we still wore white gloves and waited for doors to be opened for us, Gloria Steinem went undercover - in a Playboy...

When I was a little girl, my grandfather taught me how to count. He cut a slot in the lid of a pickle jar and put all his change in it. When I'd visit, we'd pile up pennies and nickels and dimes and quarters. We added and added and I...

My heart goes out to Michigan. A state that has, over time, contributed in so many major ways to enhancing the American Dream, is in a state of financial disarray that's hard to appreciate here in New York City on a glorious spring day. We were in Detroit recently and...

Two weeks ago, Women's Voices for Change, an organization not only near to my heart, but one I helped found and one whose significance both causes me to loose sleep and to leap up in genuine exuberance, held a fund raising luncheon. It was such an enormous success in content,...