Life Sentence
John McCain was mad. Fuming mad. It was then the early days of his political career, and he had paid an unscheduled visit to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Mesa, which was within his Arizona congressional district. That's when Gloria Feldt, then the CEO of the group's local chapter, got a phone call. "Congressman McCain is here," a staffer told her, "and he is screaming and it is upsetting the patients."Feldt says McCain had always refused her offers to visit a clinic, but had apparently decided to make a spot visit of his own. What READ MORE >>
Life Sentence
Research support for this article was provided by the Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. John McCain was mad. Fuming mad. It was then the early days of his political career, and he had paid an unscheduled visit to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Mesa, which was within his Arizona congressional district. That's when Gloria Feldt, then the CEO of the group's local chapter, got a phone call. "Congressman McCain is here," a staffer told her, "and he is screaming and it is upsetting the patients." READ MORE >>
Split End
How the mighty have fallen. Four years ago the face of Ally McBeal graced the cover of Time magazine over the headline "IS FEMINISM DEAD?" "[F]eminism," wrote reporter Ginia Bellafante, "has devolved into the silly" with "powerful support" from "a popular culture insistent on offering images of grown single women as frazzled,self-absorbed girls." And no one embodied that support more powerfully than Ally, "the most popular female character on television." But times change. As of last week Ally's a goner--not READ MORE >>
Washington Diarist
On Wednesday morning, the train was silent. Grim, tight-lipped, and still. No one looked me in the eye and nodded; thus instructed, I also did not look or nod. In the tunnel underneath the Pentagon, the smell of smoke filled the car, but no one stirred or sighed. Out of the tunnel, the smoking building came into view. A few sobs escaped, and then we returned underground and were silent again. Silent because if we had spoken we would have wailed. READ MORE >>
