George W. Bush legalized torture, but Obama is legalizing impunity. He promised to roll stuff back, but he is institutionalizing these things forever. It is terrifying and the left doesn't seem to recognize it.

If people wake up, think critically, and get angry, we get connected to that courage that the founding generation meant us to have. History shows when millions just don't go along, resist at any level - and I'm talking about all the way up to bipartisan impeachment and arrest of the leaders of the coup - then it can't happen.

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.

Maybe the less pain we inflict on our bodies, the more beautiful our bodies will look to us

I've never understood this puritanical idea that feminism has to be a cult. You know, we all have to think alike or dress alike or have a similar ideology.

What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?

The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.