Joanne Bamberger

If you gave in to the temptation to be a part of Facebook's initial public offering, I'm guessing your original excitement has given way to the Kubler-Ross five stages of grief -- (1) denial, (2) anger, (3) bargaining, (4) depression and (5) acceptance.

With shareholder lawsuits being filed...

Every few years, when the media needs something to boost ratings, they turn to the tried and true mommy wars. It's not a heavy lift and does wonders for ratings and ad sales! Every two years, we get redefined for the latest election cycle -- soccer moms, security moms,...

Ann Romney has never worked a day in her life.

Ouch. I'm counting the seconds until CNN commentator Hilary Rosen, who also is a DNC adviser, gets the boot from DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Not that I think Rosen should go, but that lone comment will be an...

Who could be better as a Republican vice presidential pick than a young, attractive, up-and-coming rising star who happens to be a woman of color, a mom of young children and the governor of an important Southern state? The GOP is sorely in need of repairing the damage it's done...

The last two news cycles have been filled with reports of Rush Limbaugh's so-called "apology" to Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke. No doubt, you've all heard by now that Limbaugh's faulty understanding of how the birth control pill works (Rush, it's not like Viagra, which we...

Women decide elections.

That's a fact that's been proven by a variety of studies. Yet, political parties and candidates often don't want to engage with women in any meaningful way. And when it comes to women voters who happen to be moms, well, it's just been easier for so-called...

Much has been written about the Susan G Komen for the Cure Foundation vs. Planned Parenthood vs. breast cancer screening PR disaster. Was Komen's initial decision to pull funding from Planned Parenthood a political one in the fight against abortion? Was Komen just trying to protect...

Compromise is not a word that a lot of people on Capitol Hill understand these days. That's particularly true when those who are entrenched in their own view of things can't climb out of those trenches without a 12-foot ladder.

The so-called "Super Committee" -- aka...

Networked: What Women Want and Why You Should Care" was the title of the panel I moderated at this year's Activism+Media+Policy Summit to talk about how and why media, policymakers and politicos should be paying attention to the largest and most active group online to advance their goals....

I owe an apology to MSNBC's Willie Geist.

When I make a mistake, I will admit it. It's not always easy or comfortable for anyone to admit when they are wrong (as all of us are from time to time) or when they have offended another person. As a parent...

We don't want to admit it, but we've become complacent in the decade since the September 11 terrorists attacked us. We all did a great job of maintaining a sense of hyper-vigilance for a few months, with extra airport precautions, family evacuation plans and those basements full of...

It should come as no surprise to anyone that the little boys in Washington, D.C. who pretend to be the men who run our country have walked away from the single most important thing they need to do -- keeping our economy from defaulting. But at the rate that things...

If you thought Michele Bachmann was a conservative mom political superstar before the last GOP debate, then you're probably standing in line to get her autograph this week as she officially announces her 2012 presidential bid, as well as her special beauty secrets of how she still looks so young...

The Supreme Court has told one and a half million women who work at Wal-mart, in essence, be grateful you have jobs even if you make less money and get promoted less than men. Now shut up and go home.

That was the practical upshot of the ruling in...

OK, so I fell for Anthony Weiner's lies about the whole "woe is me, my Twitter account was hacked" thing. But, honestly, were there many of us who thought that in this day and age of political sex scandals -- or scandals involving semi-nude self-portraits -- that...

The majority of Sarah Palin watchers seem certain that there is no way, no how the half-term governor from Alaska is going to run for President in 2012. Nu-uh, isn't gonna happen, totally sure of it. She's just going on the road with her motorcycle helmet and personally branded tour...

Congressman Anthony Weiner is having the worst week of his political life.

It seems that his enemies got a hold of some "naughty" close-up photos of a crotch they claim is his and then tried to get people to believe that Weiner was tweeting the pic to...

Just as in the world of dating and matrimony, some political character traits or policy positions are deal breakers. Smoking, chewing tobacco and an addiction to the current version of guy buddy movies? If I were still in the land of dating, any one of those would make me...

Newt Gingrich will never be the President of the United States.

I sound pretty sure of that, don't I? Do I know something the other pundits don't? Do I have some nugget of inside information that's tipped me off to a secret Gingrich ruse?

Sort of. The secret is this...

Barack Obama has a few "good months" left before he hits the big 5-0. But according to Politico, the looming milestone that most of us dread has our president in a funk.

I totally understand that -- as I navigated my way through The Year of Turning 50,...