What Do We Really Know About Why Children Need Two Parents?
The House budget passed early Saturday would cut funding for family planning, which could increase unplanned pregnancies by one-third. That would likely lead, among other things, to quite a few families headed by single mothers, the most unacceptable form of parenting to many Americans, based on the latest Pew poll. Of the 2,691 adults who were asked whether it was good or bad for society that there are "more single women having children without a male partner to help raise them," about two-thirds said it was bad. The same adults found it more acceptable for unmarried heterosexual partners ...
Six Weeks After Shooting, Nation Honors Other Victims
Six weeks after the shooting rampage in Tucson that seriously wounded her, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords says she's getting "better." And those rocked by the tragedy are trying to do the same, responding to it in concrete ways by honoring some of the other victims and survivors. The name of Judge John Roll, who was one of six people killed in the Jan. 8 attack (14 were injured), will appear on a new federal courthouse in Yuma, Ariz., after President Obama signed a bill Thursday naming the building in his honor. Roll had approved the design of the building, which is scheduled for construction ...
Hillary Clinton's Plan for 2016: Beaches and Speeches
Two years into her term as secretary of state, former first lady and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke with Harper's Bazaar about her favorite TV shows, becoming a grandmother and women in politics. She also may have taken some measure of credit for the Obama administration's success in passing health care reform legislation, a cause she lobbied for in 1993 and 1994 to the detriment of her reputation. Clinton tells the magazine that she doesn't give much thought to how she's perceived, and believes some disapproval of her is a result of the issues she championed. "Like, for ...
Justice Ginsburg Expects Health Care Cases (and Retirement) to Be a Ways Off
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has made it clear that she does not plan to retire any time soon, nor does she expect challenges to health care legislation to arrive quickly for the high court's review. In an interview with NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg at George Washington University last week, the 77-year-old cancer survivor also talked about her career as a justice and how she gets along with her colleagues. Ginsburg was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton and began serving in 1993. Here's what she said about retirement: One of the ...
Over Anxious: Are We Making Ourselves Crazy?
Human beings have known stress since cavemen started the first fire then struggled to keep it burning. So why all the headlines now about college students feeling more anxious than ever, employees managing intense anxiety, even Super Bowl fans facing life-threatening stress from the thrill of the game? It isn't simply because of economic fears, or less support from families living farther away or information overload. In fact, Americans reported being less stressed in 2010 than they were in 2009, according to a recent Gallup poll. And not only is our standard of living actually improving, ...
State of the Union: Obama Faces New Challenges in Reforming Education
When President Obama enters the House chamber to deliver his third State of the Union address Jan. 25, he will bring with him a track record of at least limited success in reforming education, a topic he's expected to feature in his remarks. Obama has fulfilled or made progress on most of his campaign promises to improve the nation's schools, based on tracking done by PolitiFact.com, which monitors and fact checks political claims. According to PolitiFact's numbers, Obama has kept 11 of his 48 education promises, compromised on four of them, and has made progress on another 24. He has broken ...
Tucson Shootings: Sympathy for the Mothers
When Gabrielle Giffords opened her eyes Wednesday for the first time since being shot, her husband was there, along with the congresswoman's Democratic colleagues, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who spoke to CNN about the moment. Also in the room were Gloria and Spencer Giffords, her parents. Picture the scene: Mark Kelly by the bedside urging his wife to open her eyes and touch his wedding ring. Her friends close by, encouraging. And her parents, a quiet but constant presence. Last Mother's Day, Giffords said this of her mom and ...
Elizabeth Edwards Can Cut John Out of Her Will, but Not Out of Her Legacy
With death, Elizabeth Edwards has closure, but do we? The same day we learned that Edwards had left her entire estate to her children and nothing to her estranged husband, word followed that former vice presidential nominee John Edwards might be marrying Rielle Hunter, the woman with whom he fathered a child while his wife was diagnosed with incurable cancer. Maybe John Edwards will marry Rielle Hunter this summer, as the National Enquirer reports, and maybe he won't; the tabloid has been both right and wrong about Edwards, particularly about the couple's engagement, which the paper ...
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It seems like everyone is predicting what 2011 will bring for Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, the economy and the 112th Congress -- including a few surprises. But some of these prognosticators didn't fare so well in 2010. We're hoping you can do better. Tell us what you predict will happen this year in politics by adding your comment to this article, by sharing your ideas on our Facebook page or by posting your prediction in 140 characters on Twitter, using the hashtag #politicalpredictions. You can tweet your predictions by completing this sentence: "The biggest political story of 2011 will ...
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