Even women who are profoundly tired of the fact that we have to be overqualified to win are turned off by a celebrity pol who still will not admit she was wildly underqualified. (Page A17, 759 words)By: Ellen Goodman|Date: Nov 20, 2009

After the fall of the Taliban, many Afghan women shed their burqas, opened schools, entered Parliament. Equal rights were written into the constitution. But slowly, as America turned to the disastrous misadventure in Iraq, Afghan women's freedoms were casually traded in like chits for power. (Page A15, 752 words)By: Ellen Goodman|Date: Nov 6, 2009

Today, elders are half as likely to be poor as are children. So, why exactly would the president want to give $250 to every senior at every income while poor children remain in deep trouble? (Page A15, 747 words)By: Ellen Goodman|Date: Oct 23, 2009

The question for Congress is still whether the 'reform' that is supposed to increase coverage will instead reduce it. Will women who now have coverage for abortion in their private plans end up losing it? (Page A15, 766 words)By: Ellen Goodman|Date: Oct 2, 2009

When exactly did the Republicans start operating one of those marketing scams that target the elderly? (Page A17, 692 words)By: Ellen Goodman|Date: Sep 4, 2009

Where exactly do you draw a line when the opposition keeps moving it? How do you compromise with those who are uncompromising? If prochoice Democrats turn back reproductive rights, it proves that they can be rolled by intransigent opposition. And once rolled, it's all downhill. (Page A15, 727 words)By: Ellen Goodman|Date: Nov 13, 2009

Somewhere along the way, with the help of health insurers and incentives, by paying for procedures rather than patient care, we have created a culture of medicine that pushes doctors away from their calling. (Page A21, 724 words)By: Ellen Goodman|Date: Jun 19, 2009

Parents -- I remember well -- are caught in the dailiness of child-raising. But grandparents, imbued with a different sense of time, create a narrative arc across generations. (Page A15, 713 words)By: Ellen Goodman|Date: Aug 14, 2009

I have long been a collector of sports metaphors, but I never expected such a treasure of memorabilia to come out of a Senate hearing room. (Page A13, 715 words)By: Ellen Goodman|Date: Jul 17, 2009

Contrary to all the news reports, the suspect in the murder of Dr. George Tiller was not a lone gunman. And this abortion killing was not an isolated incident. (Page A15, 741 words)By: Ellen Goodman|Date: Jun 5, 2009

The woman who glowed in the limelight withered in the spotlight. (Page A19, 716 words)By: Ellen Goodman|Date: Jul 10, 2009

The 43rd president is going home with less remorse and fewer regrets than my grandchildren express for spilling their cereal. (Page K9, 757 words)By: Ellen Goodman|Date: Dec 28, 2008

With Michelle Obama as our new first lady, it's possible that "the family" will turn into a serious agenda that cements a bond between the woman in the White House and the women in Every House. (Page A11, 715 words)By: Ellen Goodman|Date: Jan 16, 2009

What would have happened if the first abortion case to arrive at the Supreme Court was not Roe v. Wade. What if it had been Susan Struck v. Secretary of Defense? What if it had been brought by a woman who did not want an abortion? (Page A15, 722 words)By: Ellen Goodman|Date: May 15, 2009

Over the last months, sexting -- that spicy combo of sex and texting -- has created something between a moral panic and a reprise of "Trouble in River City." If sexting sends parents into a spiral, it pushes prosecutors into high gear -- which could dilute the real horror of child pornography. (Page A15, 673 words)By: Ellen Goodman|Date: Apr 24, 2009

Somewhere in southern Afghanistan, another little girl is being "protected" from school, another woman shrouded in the anonymity of a burqa is begging permission to walk out her front door. Mission accomplished? Not quite. (Page A15, 698 words)By: Ellen Goodman|Date: Apr 10, 2009

What makes Rush Limbaugh's recent ranting notable is that he has managed to use his ample body to fill the vacuum of Republican leadership. And the biggest gap in his own approval is among exactly those who left the party in droves: independent women. (Page A13, 703 words)By: Ellen Goodman|Date: Mar 6, 2009

Every huge economic change like the one we are in has an unpredictable impact on society. The unplanned parity in the workforce is one example. But marriages are also facing an infrastructure change. (Page A17, 715 words)By: Ellen Goodman|Date: Feb 13, 2009

Despite Americans' loss of faith in every sort of expert, there is a residue of resilience. The latest polls tell us that a majority of Americans actually expect this president to achieve every one of 10 campaign promises, from alternative energy to health insurance. (Page A15, 717 words)By: Ellen Goodman|Date: Jan 23, 2009

Thoughts about success have come creeping back into the conversation since Malcolm Gladwell hit the top of the best-seller list with his book "Outliers." Gladwell is the anti-Horatio Alger. (Page A15, 747 words)By: Ellen Goodman|Date: Jan 9, 2009

Like a New Year's resolution, a teenage pledge of abstinence means little, according to the latest research. The majority not only break the pledge, they forget they ever made it. (Page A11, 725 words)By: Ellen Goodman|Date: Jan 3, 2009

Feminism made me happy? Not, I assure you, in a permanent state of good cheer. It opened doors. It opened our eyes -- to everything including what still needs to be done. (Page A15, 695 words)By: Ellen Goodman|Date: Oct 30, 2009

SINCE THIS is the list-making time of year, allow me to add a tiny trophy to Al Gore's very full shelf: the prize for the most elegant speech of 2007. (Page A11, 795 words)By: Ellen Goodman|Date: Dec 28, 2007

SO THIS is what they mean by the soft bigotry of low expectations. The weeklong drumbeat that led to the vice presidential debate suggested it would be a matchup between an airhead and a gaffe machine. (Page A15, 315 words)By: Ellen Goodman|Date: Oct 3, 2008

Three weeks after the nomination of the Candidate from Nowhere, there is still a flood tide of women choking on the possibility that Hillary Clinton paved the way for Sarah Palin. (Page A15, 708 words)By: Ellen Goodman|Date: Sep 19, 2008