The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.

Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.

The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions.

It's time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all.

There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home still lingers in some quarters.

A small pay discrepancy between men's and women's salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension.

Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.