There aren't many things more disturbing than watching a bunch of stodgy white Republicans mechanically bop around to the beat of Earth Wind & Fire's "Dancin' in September." But it was a necessary evil in order to be sure and hear from McCain's pick for President -- once he knocks...

After working in and writing about politics and parenting special needs children, some have asked me, "Isn't it kind of shallow to go into travel the travel writing industry?" My resounding answer is: no.

Seriously, when's the last time you knew a world leader who stayed in their corner of...

Super Tuesday is upon us. So, let's just get ready for the polls to be wrong, the media to be loud, and Rush Limbaugh to have an aneurism when McCain sweeps the Republican side.

One more thing we can count on is our sexist cultural undertones to continue. Let's take...

In Iowa, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton put a lot of time, money and effort into the women's vote, with Obama focusing on the younger crowd. It paid off for him.

Now representing more than one quarter of eligible voters, single women hold a lot of cards...

Mission accomplished: the War on Christmas is over -- for this year at least. It was a tough battle, with some of us foolishly wishing unknown strangers 'Happy Holidays' just in case they were Jewish, Muslim or otherwise. But thankfully, the suppressed voices of Christians throughout America finally got...

It is with great sadness that our organization, the Council of Women World Leaders lost a member yesterday.

In a world of tailored political messages and issue flip-flopping, Bhutto stood out as courageous.

While she was in office in 1994, Bhutto conducted a filmed interview with the Council's secretary...

Watching Sean Hannity smile and nod on Fox News Monday night while Newt Gingrich attempted to brush off presidential candidate Mike Huckabee's defense of a convicted (and brutal) rapist, I was further stunned that in the next breath, he began promoting Gingrich's Rediscovering God in America book and documentary. An...

A medical student wrote an op-ed in the New York Times on Sunday making a few good points, but mostly just revealing her naiveté about what American's really need. She complains that a policy of New York's Governor Spitzer gives "requirements that all individual and small-group plans cover services...