One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.

In my mother's day, she didn't go to college. Not a lot of women did. Now for every two men who get a college degree, three women will do the same.

NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.

On the one hand, parents want their children to swim expertly in the digital stream that they will have to navigate all their lives; on the other hand, they fear that too much digital media, too early, will sink them.

Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.

What I've found is that there is an enormous shift taking place in our society. Suddenly there are all young women who are better educated and earning more money than men their age. When young couples today decide to marry, they have very different expectations of one another than their parents did. And there's even been change at the very top of the career ladder. People tend to underestimate that.

We can no more create the perfect environment for our children than we can create perfect children.