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Celebrating Visionary Women of the World

Angella Nazarian | Posted 05.05.2012

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My hope is that the stories of these visionary women present to us the flame of the passionate life, the knife of insight, and the courage to stand for what one sees without looking away.

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The 50th Anniversary of Kennedy's "Go to the Moon" Speech

Meg Waite Clayton | Posted 07.25.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Jfk, Space Shuttle, Space Race, Golda Meir, Politics News

President Kennedy had no idea how we might accomplish the goal of putting an American on the moon when he announced the goal. No one did.

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'They Don't Make Movies About Boring People:' Two New Documentaries Tackle AIDS, Government

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Title IX, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, Julian Shaw, Glass Ceiling, Aids Education, Patsy Takemoto, Desmond Tutu, P.W. Botha, Nelson Mandela, Golda Meir, Nancy Pelosi, Malcolm X, Evita Bezuidenhout, Richard Gephardt, Bella Abzug, Pieter-Dirk Yus, Dame Edna, Thabo Mbeki, Hiv, Mahatma Gandhi, Roy Cohn, Harvey Milk, Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority, George Carlin, Kinsey Sicks, Martin Luther King, Sarah Palin, Franklin Odo, Kimberlee Bassford, Patsy Mink, Film, Arts News

Imagine someone with the bluntness of the George Carlin, the wardrobe of the Kinsey Sicks, and the following of Dame Edna and you'll get an idea of what kind of social catalyst Pieter-Dirk Uys became for South Africans.

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What Did the Arabs Really Win in the 1973 War With Israel?

Firas Al-Atraqchi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tel Aviv, Amir Bar-Lev, Bar Lev Line, Sinai, Hafez-Al-Assad, Anwar Sadat, Arab-Israeli Peace, Cairo, Egypt, Sinai-Peninsula, Golda Meir, Yom Kippur War, Damascus-Syria, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Middle East Peace, Camp David Peace Accords, Libya, Middle East, World News

In the 37 years since this "victory," the Arabs have been unable to persuade Israel to agree to the Arab Peace Initiative and have become absolutely impotent to prevent it from continuing the construction of settlements.

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Ruth Gruber, Journalism Pioneer, Finally Gets Credit

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Virginia Woolf, Ahead of Time, Ruth Gruber Interview, Golda Meir, Harry Truman, Natasha Richardson, David Ben-Gurion, New York Herald Tribune, Overseas Press Club, Haven, Exodus, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Marshall Fine Interview, Entertainment News

Called Ahead of Time, the film by director Bob Richman follows Gruber's remarkable career as a pioneering journalist and writer from the 1920s onward.

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Texas Education Board Approves Conservative Curriculum Changes By Far-Right

Posted 05.25.2011

***UPDATE*** Think Progress flags some of the more eye-opening revisions the Texas Board of Education approved for its social studies curriculum and ...

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Doctor of the Heart: A Book Review

Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Memoir, Physicians, Healthcare Reform, Leonid Brezhnev, Healthcare, Golda Meir, Cardiology, Books News

It's not every day that a novelist gets to review his own father's memoir. The publication of Doctor of the Heart is perfectly timed amidst dissecting scrutiny of our national healthcare system.

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Can Obama Re-Unite Liberals and Moderates?

Sheri and Allan Rivlin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Congress, Health-Care-Exchanges, Democrats, Barack Obama, Thomas Friedman, Golda Meir, Politics News

This year's best political play may turn out to be the Republican policy of "just say no," because it puts maximum pressure on Democrats to keep their two wings flapping in the same direction.

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"If Sarah Palin Looked Like Golda"

Gershon Hepner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tel-Aviv, Alaska, Golda Meir, Mike Murphy, Tina Fey, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Politics News

Poem inspired by an observation made by Mike Murphy, a former John McCain strategist

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Israel's Risk

Chris Meserole | Posted 05.25.2011

What we're watching in Gaza is not so much low-intensity warfare as the continued fracture of the post-Soviet international order.

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Black and Blue: Obama and Golda

Haim Watzman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israel, Obama, Election Results, Election 2008, Race, Feminism, Golda Meir, Barack Obama President, Barack Obama, Politics News

The significance of Obama's victory will be that he has convinced the American people that the selfish, aggressive, and patronizing America of the Bush administration has been a disaster.

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Sarah Palin Is Making Powerful and Sexy a Potent Brew Without Emasculating Her Husband

Jill Brooke | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Women in Politics, Margaret Thatcher, Women's Issues, Vice President Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin, Todd Palin, Golda Meir, Power, Drill Baby Drill, Femininity, Feminism, Sexuality, Healthy Living News

It sure doesn't look like Sarah Palin will be facing divorce. She may have difficulty explaining foreign policy, but she is clearly proud to assert femininity and sexuality along with power.

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Hillary and the Unfeminine Mystique

Joan Z. Shore | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama, Golda Meir, Thatcher, Hillary, Feminist, Women in Politics, Hillary Feminism, Politics News

Hillary was using the old paradigm: To beat men you've got to be like them. What a difference it would have made if her campaign had employed some "feminine" qualities.

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