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National Women’s History Month is almost over, and though there’s been a marked lack of mainstream news coverage devoted to related events, many outstanding blogs and online outlets have done more than their share covering conferences, conventions, symposia and the like. For daily doses of women’s rights and women’s issues year-round (not just during NWHM), [...]

While we’re still vague on what President-elect Barack Obama’s WPA (Works Projects/Progress Administration) will end up doing, we sure like the images conjured by these evocations of FDR’s sweeping set of reforms to keep artists and construction workers busy during the Great Depression. In anticipation of great state-sponsored (and therefore more or less propagandist) visual [...]

Today marks the annual release of the Hollywood Reporter’s coveted (and for the top 25 or so, unchanging) list of the 100 Most Powerful Women in Entertainment. There are relatively few surprises, least of all with the head of the pack. For the third year in a row, the podium looks like this:

Oprah Winfrey (Chairman [...]