I wrote this article as an exclusive to the Women's Media Center and reprint it here with permission. It can't begin to describe the pain in my heart for those killed or injured, their families and extended networks of friends.

When an angry young...

"If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it." --Sojourner Truth, former slave, abolitionist, Methodist minister, and early U.S. women's rights leader

International Women's Day began 99 years ago. With so much progress accomplished since 1911,...

Hey, Women: Want to earn a cool half million?

That's about what the average woman loses over a career lifetime due to gender inequities in pay for the same jobs as men.

So click here to Speak Up and demand the Senate pass two crucial pieces of legislation so...

By Carole Joffe and Gloria Feldt
Don't get excited. John McCain didn't respond directly to the questions about his positions on economic and reproductive justice we first put to him on Labor Day here at Huffington Post and have been asking him ever since.

Remember the bumbling villain Snidely Whiplash in the Dudley Do-Right animated series? But for the absence of mustache, John McCain might well have been mistaken for Snidely in the final -- thank goodness -- presidential debate. I could imagine him rubbing hands together, cackling as...

In Texas where I come from, "caint" is a perfectly good word. If it's not already in the dictionary, it should be.

Definition: what someone must not do, as in "Barack Obama caint choose Virginia's anti-choice Gov. Tim Kaine as his running mate."

Think about it. If Obama...

How many male politicians do you think are burning their little black books and expunging e-mails right now, as another of their brotherhood bites the dust from his own lack of zipper control?

We have way too much information about John Edwards and his self-described narcissism. Clearly, like any...

I was planning to attend Barack Obama's big fundraising reception in New York tonight and make the maximum contribution to his campaign, but I have torn up the invitation.

My decision isn't about the money, though the thought of writing a check for $4600 for anything besides a mortgage payment...

It's been a tough week. The death of legendary rock n' roller Bo Diddley and the demise of Hillary Clinton's groundbreaking presidential campaign both hit me hard. I'm a cockeyed optimist, but these two events forced me to confront certain basic truths: dreams don't always come true; hopes sometimes...

So my Los Angeles liberal friend called while I was on the treadmill this morning. She helped me get an especially good workout today. In fact, I got so worked up I was panting.

LALF: What about your girlfriend?
(I didn't have to ask her who she meant.)

Read more reactions from Huffington Post bloggers to the Pennsylvania Primary results

Pennsylvania was clearly going to be either the semi-finals or the finals in this game. Looks like the semi-finals are headed into overtime. And that's a good thing.

In the pre-internet old days of backroom politics, the...

The worst mistakes I've made in life and leadership have always involved waiting too long to fire someone.

Whether I'm hanging onto a relationship long after love is gone or hanging onto an employee long after positive value to the organization has diminished beyond the point of return, my loyalty...

AOL News reports this:

Despite calls for his rival to drop out of their tight race for the Democratic nomination, Barack Obama said Saturday, "My attitude is that Senator Clinton can run as long as she wants."

Note the tepid and dismissive "Senator Clinton...

This is not a joke. Really. As I was writing yesterday's post on my own Heartfeldt Politics Blog "The Bigger They are, the Harder They Fall (and Vice Versa)", I realized there are important leadership lessons in this Shakespearean tragedy.

Besides the obvious one -- well actually two if you...

Sick to my stomach. That's my initial reaction to the breaking story of Eliot Spitzer's admission that he has been involved with a prostitution ring.

What was he thinking? What is is that makes men in high profile political positions think they can get away with this kind of...

Ping . Vermont's presidential primary with its 15 delegates split 9-6 is called as expected for Obama.

I'm watching CNN and thinking about my first and only Texas precinct convention, in 1972. I'd learned from the League of Women Voters how my natal state's Byzantine primary system worked, and I'd...

Ping . Vermont's presidential primary with its 15 delegates split 9-6 is called as expected for Obama.

I'm watching CNN and thinking about my first and only Texas precinct convention, in 1972. I'd learned from the League of Women Voters how my natal state's Byzantine primary system worked, and I'd...

Like many women who identify themselves as feminists, Kathleen Turner and I are divided in our presidential candidate pick. We spent 18 months collaborating on her just-released memoir, Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love, and Leading Roles. During that time, we talked about politics quite a...

Help me please: Which Greek tragedy would be the proper metaphor for the political narrative playing itself out before our eyes? If Hillary Clinton loses her presidential bid because Bill's help has become so destructive to her campaign that it is alienating the press and offending African Americans (yes, he...

I am Roe.

Not the Roe in Roe v Wade, but the nameless, faceless Roe that all women became after the U. S. Supreme Court's latest and largest rollback of Roe v Wade, Gonzales v Carhart . One has only to contrast Justice Anthony Kennedy's 2007 majority...