Democracy runs on the belief that a people should have a say in how they are governed. About that, most U.S. citizens agree. What they haven’t agreed upon historically is who should have that say. From the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 saying that “all men are created equal,” it took nearly…
Lilly Ledbetter famously said, “Sometimes in life, you hit a turning point.” The turning point she hit came in 1998, when someone slipped an anonymous note into her mailbox at work. It told her that her employer of nearly 20 years—Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company of Gadsen, Alabama—had been paying her about half of what…
Stories make us human. No other animal (that we know of, at least) loves and leans on stories the way humans do to understand ourselves, enjoy ourselves, and tell ourselves the way forward by looking at the road we’ve been on. In March, our love of story gets to focus on women, for March is…
In Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talks about climbing onto a wooden motorboat bobbing on Geneva Lake in Wisconsin early one September morning. “We were all a little wobbly,” she admits. Some of the wobbles came from gobs of celebrating the day and night before…
A story that began as anonymous note scribbled on a paper scrap and slipped into an office mailbox made it to the world stage on Thursday, October 10, 2024, when “LILLY” — a film about the woman whose fight for equal pay led to groundbreaking anti-discrimination legislation — debuted at the Hamptons International Film Festival….
The last ten minutes of a basketball game, some sports fans say, are all you need to watch. That’s the real action; everything else is prep and prelude. Not so, say others. What you see at the buzzer — whether blowout or nailbiter — has much to do with the beginning minutes. A similar theme…