A New G.I. Bill?
By Kay Steiger - Jan 26th, 2009 at 12:50 pmThere’s an op-ed this morning in Inside Higher Ed by Arthur Levine, president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, that proposes a “new G.I.…
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They Use Clowns to Teach Abstinence. That Really Says Something About Abstinence
By Kay Steiger - Jan 16th, 2009 at 3:45 pmVia the illustrious Pam Spaulding at Pandagon, a middle school in Ohio hired Derek Dye to dress up as a clown and teach messages of…
Things to Read: Interviews and Defunct Magazines
By Kay Steiger - Jan 9th, 2009 at 3:27 pmOver at Campus Progress this week we have several interesting articles. CP’s publications associate, David Spett, interviews freshman Congresswoman Kathy Dahlkemper, a pro-life Democrat from…
Mr. PTA President
By Kay Steiger - Jan 6th, 2009 at 5:15 pmToday I saw this item in The New York Times that reported the first-ever male Parent Teacher Association president, Charles J. Saylors. Finally, I thought,…
Self-Empowerment? Really?
By Kay Steiger - Jan 5th, 2009 at 4:02 pmApparently this week is Women’s Self-Empowerment Week. That’s right, the week most people tend to devote to signing up for gym memberships and making long…
Things To Read: Top Ten Campus Progress Stories in 2008
By Kay Steiger - Jan 2nd, 2009 at 12:30 pmA new year is always a good time for reflection on the past one, and it’s been a pretty good one at Campus Progress. Here…
Things to Read: The Economic Recession’s Effect on Tuition
By Kay Steiger - Dec 19th, 2008 at 6:30 pmOver at Campus Progress, Pedro de la Torre III has an excellent rundown of how and why the economic recession is going to hit students…
Celebrity Senator From New York
By Kay Steiger - Dec 19th, 2008 at 3:30 pmThe feminist blogosphere is up in arms of what to do about the Caroline Kennedy problem. I definitely have mixed feelings about this. I’m not…
Tweetmas Is Coming to Town
By Kay Steiger - Dec 19th, 2008 at 12:30 pmI can’t decide if this new Twitter application is creepy or clever. Apparently developers have created software that helps Twitter users broadcast what they want…
Things to Read: Playing with Gender
By Kay Steiger - Dec 18th, 2008 at 3:20 pmOver at Campus Progress today, Miriam Pérez, an editor at Feministing, writes a review of a book that is supposed to be a “tell all”…
The Dividends of Cap-n-Trade
By Kay Steiger - Dec 18th, 2008 at 3:00 pmHere’s a funny cartoon way of explaining cap-and-dividend:
HHS Publishes a Terrible Anti-Choice Regulation
By Kay Steiger - Dec 18th, 2008 at 11:58 amHHS Secretary Michael Leavitt
The Health and Human Services department, in their last-ditch effort to screw women over, has published a final version of the…
Things to Read: Conservative Watch Edition
By Kay Steiger - Dec 17th, 2008 at 4:15 pmOver at Campus Progress this week we have two pieces by Pushback writers. The first is by Minipundit-extraordinaire Dylan Matthews. He makes the case against…
Family Research Council: Church and Parents Are Good! (Shocker)
By Kay Steiger - Dec 17th, 2008 at 2:00 pmThe Family Research Council, the conservative organization that pushes a hetronormative, anti-abortion agenda, released a study yesterday purporting the claim that children of “both biological…
Female Brain, Not So Different From Male Brain
By Kay Steiger - Dec 16th, 2008 at 11:59 am(Flickr/hurleygurley)
Amanda Schaffer has a very interesting article over at Slate that debunks some of the controversial “science” devoted to the differences between men’s and…
