Receiving a bill in the mail for basic police work represents an unacceptable but still too common truth - that the criminal justice system has a lot to learn about how it deals with rape victims.
Evan Eisenberg | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics
I wrote this bit of doggerel a while ago but only just got around to making it hyperdoggerel by equipping the stanza numbers with links. (Warning: VI...
Julie Menin | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics
Palin's almost gleeful proclamation that she's just an everyday hockey mom and that experience is what we need in a VP, slams all the progress that women elected officials have been making for years.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics
Women Against McCain-Palin have released this short, emotionally blunt advertisement in which a young woman relates how Sarah Palin's policies could h...
Barbra Streisand | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics
Until the Republican Convention, very few had ever heard of Sarah Palin, and now this mean-spirited campaigner is asking who is Barack Obama? I'm asking who is Sarah Palin?
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics
The Wasilla Project covers the Sarah Palin rape kit controversy, interviewing several Alaskans who add to the case that she knew of the policy of char...
Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics
All of us know what a lie is, and hopefully we believe it is wrong. So why when politicians and elected officials lie or tell half-truths it is acceptable to voters?
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics
Multiple newspapers have confirmed reports in blogs that Sarah Palin's town charged rape victims for their forensic exams while she was mayor. Now CNN...
Amie Newman | Posted 10.19.2008 | Politics
There is good reason to hunt down the facts about the rape kits. But the larger issue - of rape, sexual assault and how we deal with violence against women in this country - has been overlooked.
Eric Schmeltzer | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics
Palin, I'm told from those who have been involved in the issue for years in Alaska, had a more extreme view than those Catholic Churches.
The Huffington Post | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics
UPDATE: The Jed Report finds the connection to John McCain: In 1994, John McCain voted against legislation -- pushed through Congress by Joe Biden -...
Bart Motes | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics
Women may love Sarah Palin, but she doesn't love them back. If you were raped in Sarah Palin's Wasilla, you would have to pay for the cost of the rape kit.
Eric Schmeltzer | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics
For four years, Palin didn't seem to have a problem with charging rape victims to solve their own crime. I guess that's one way to be a "Maverick."
Sarah Tofte | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics