Selected Articles

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Timely Topics

• Pornography: Getting It Up and Putting Her Down
• Today’s Sons Are Teaching Their Fathers
• Getting Closer to the Levers of Power

Women in the News

• Nora Ephron: Exit, Laughing
• Hats, Saints, Milliners, and a Synagogue
• Journalist Flouts Beijing, Part One and Part Two: Hu Shuli, muckraking editor, bucks Chinese censors
• Profile of Judith Solodkin: Master Printer, Hat Maker and Collaborator
• Pulitzer Prize-Winner Paige St. John Gets Intimate With Numbers
• Vivian Maier: A Photographer Discovered
• Speculation about Obama’s second Supreme Court nominee; the political theater in response to his choice of Elena Kagan; Kagan enlivens her hearing with show-stopping comedy
• Gulf Coast native Margaret Curole talks about the hardship and heartbreak of the BP oil spill
• Nancy Pelosi: “Arguably the most powerful woman in American history”
• How do you lose an election a month after being 30 points ahead? About Martha Coakley
• Gay Culverhouse, a Grandmother Who Speaks Truth to NFL Power
• The Shriver Report: Now that We Are the Labor Force, How About Some Respect?
• The confirmation hearing and swearing-in of Justice Sonia Sotomayor
• LIRR president Helena Williams appointed interim head of MTA

Politics

• Banahan and Kentucky: Obamacare Done Right
• “Just a Little Off the Top”: How Would the Chained CPI Impact YOU?
• Let’s Make a Deal: Women Senators Get Things DoneClinton, Power, Rice: Three Women Swing U.S. Policy on Libya
• WikiLeaks: Embarrassing? Yes. Lethal? No.
• Review of Rebecca Traister’s “Big Girls Don’t Cry”
• Sexism, the Media and the 2010 Midterm Election
• Drilling Deep into BP

Personal Essays

• Birthday Tsunami
• Bin Laden Is Dead but the Moral Questions Remain
• The Death of Osama Bin Laden: Echoes of Pete Seeger
• Charlie Sheen: An Unlikely Comic Hero Veers Toward Tragedy
• The Church and the Scandal
• Labor Day’s ambivalent spark
• When Mother’s Day Brings Only Questions
• The seasons, friendship and the passing of time
• Synchronicity: Sully and Obama
• Understanding, not condemning: Candidate Obama’s speech on race

ComedyBeat

• “I don’t do easy” -Robin Williams
• Frank Vignola’s Life in Comedy
• No Name unmasked: Eric Vetter tells all
• Hersh Rephun on Comedy, Part 2
• Hersh Rephun: 20 Years to Kill
• NYT Critic Stars in his Own “Three True Stories”
• “We Saw Your Junk”
• Not everybody loved Seth MacFarlane
• Smart and Funny: Veronica Osorio
• Sold on Comedy
• Stephen Colbert vs Citizens United, part four
• Ben Bailey’s “Road Rage”
• Mike DeStefano’s final curtain
• Mike DeStefano, escaping death with comedy
• For Bobby Slayton anger opens doors of comedic success

Movie Reviews

• Wonder Women! Superheroines with the Allure of Attractive Women, the Strength of Powerful Men!
• The Provocations of Hannah Arendt
• “Black Butterflies”—the Poetry of Love and Anger
• Daisy Bates, Unsung Heroine of the Civil Rights Movement

New York City       stories from Chelsea Now

• The city’s surrounded by water: rising sea levels and storm surges pose a real danger.       Written before Sandy and predicting what such a hurricane would do and why

• A day in the life of  Walid Youssef, a vendor at Columbus Circle

Schools

• Overcrowding pits parents and schools against each other in Chelsea elementary, middle and high schools.
• War rages over school resources

Rezoning the Western Rail Yards in New York City

• West Siders walk away with well-earned victory at Hudson Yards
• Hudson Yards calculus adds up to too little affordable housing
• Affordable housing a sticking point at Hudson Yards hearing
• Hell’s Kitchen height limit sacrificed for ‘public good’
• How much is too much—or too little—at Hudson Yards?
• Hudson Yards Heights: a gated community of skyscrapers?
• Hudson Yards ‘Himalayas’ earn public ire at forum

The Financial Meltdown

• In Wake of S&P Downgrade, Repercussions Are Dramatic
• Debt-Ceiling Crisis Abated … for Now
• Debt-Ceiling Debate: Anxiety Grows as Solution Remains Elusive
• Social Security: The Math That Could Hurt Us
• The Ryan Budget: The Path to . . . ?
• Tackling the Deficit: This is not fun
• Alan Simpson and the Fate of Social Security: On Cows, Tits and Cat Food
• Unemployed over 50: A View from the Ground
• Whose Economy Is It?
• Debt Ceiling Update: Did Obama Sabotage Talks With GOP?
• D-Day Minus 6: Countdown to Default?
• Clock Is Ticking Down With No Debt-Ceiling Accord
• Debt-Ceiling Deal Appears Closer to Becoming Reality