Outback Steakhouse's parent company will pay $19 million to settle federal claims that it has discriminated against women and kept them in low-paying restaurant jobs. ...more

December 30, 2009

Among the many new "rights" being conjured out of thin air, a new one seems to be a "right" to win. ...more

November 23, 2008

You know what I'm thinking, because you're thinking it, too. If Barack Obama had chosen Hillary Clinton as his running mate, we would now be looking forward to the greatest night in the history of American politics: the Oct. 2 vice presidential debate between Ma Barker and Sarah Barracuda. ...more

September 9, 2008

Sen. John McCain made an inspired choice in picking Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. ...more

August 30, 2008

Democrats shaped a set of principles Saturday that commits the party to guaranteed health care for all, heading off a potentially divisive debate and edging the party closer to the position of Barack Obama's defeated rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton. ...more

August 10, 2008

This time last year it looked as if Hillary Clinton's path to the Democratic nomination would be a cakewalk. She had the best brand name in American politics. She controlled the Democratic establishment. She had money to burn and a double-digit lead in the opinion polls. And as the first American woman to have a chance of breaking the presidential glass ceiling, she had a great story to tell. ...more

June 11, 2008

In my earlier life, the Reader's Digest frequently gave me emotional indigestion with its periodic threats of global warming, planetary freezing, famines, pestilences, epidemics, international calamities and a plethora of other scourges, most of which came to no greater semblance of fruition than the promises exchanged in a shipboard romance. ...more

June 8, 2008

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the most successful female presidential candidate in U.S. history, officially ended her campaign Saturday with a forceful promise to help elect Sen. Barack Obama - and the declaration that, even though she had failed to "shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling," a gender barrier had been crossed. ...more

June 8, 2008

In the span of .2 seconds, Tennessee appeared to dispel the so-called myth of parity in women's basketball. ...more

February 18, 2008

It has outlived two world wars and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Now Vienna's imperial "Sisi Palm" - a tree named for the late Empress Elisabeth - faces the ax. ...more

January 25, 2008