Last week, I spent a few days knocking on doors back in my hometown of Kenosha, Wisconsin.  I was telling people about their early voting options and, where possible, engaging them in discussions about why I support Hillary Clinton for President (and Russ Feingold for WI Senate).  I was particularly surprised by the number of […]

Everyone!  It’s happening.  It’s really, REALLY happening.  People are already voting for Hillary in places where early voting exists.  See?  This is from my friend’s facebook earlier today: AAAGH! OMG!  I am SO excited.  And I know lots of you are too.  All of this got me thinking with my teacher brain.  This is an […]

Today, Kate Harding, author of a range of feminist books including Asking For It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and Lessons from the Fat-o-sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body published an essay entitled: “A Reason to Thank Trump.”  In it, she listed out the surprising assortment of places and voices […]

“If any investigation is going to yield evidence of criminally-prosecutable violations of a Presidential candidate, it’s investigations into Trump’s pattern of serial sexual assaults.”

Discrimination lawsuits don’t just teach us Trump is #sexist. They also teach us he doesn’t know how to manage a company, let alone a country.

The unsavory aspects of Trump we see on the campaign trail are his M.O. in the workplace as well.

Q.  What do the DOJ, Sen. McCarthy, and multiple NY civil rights organizations have in common? A.  Why, Donald Trump, of course. Anyone who has paid attention to this election won’t be surprised to learn that Donald Trump has been sued more than once for discrimination.  But what may surprise is that the first lawsuit he […]

Over the weekend, the Washington Post published an article entitled “Finally.  Someone who thinks like me.”   The author had clearly spent quite a bit of time with Melanie Austin, a 52-year-old woman who lives in rural Pennsylvania.  The Post article is an exploration of why Melanie is a Trump supporter and how Melanie thinks about […]

About a year ago, Hillary Clinton showed her chops during the eleven-hour farce more commonly known as the Benghazi hearing. I wrote about the heightened scrutiny that women, including Hillary, face. I also wrote that, when listening to Hillary in the final hours of that day, I heard poise. I heard patience. I heard graciousness […]

If it wasn’t clear from my prior posts on this, I’ll make it clear now: #ImWithHer.  With that out of the way… Discussions surrounding a particular question have been circulating on my social media feeds and at my office: should Bernie drop out?  As someone who is closely aligned ideologically with Bernie (and with Hillary […]