July 21, 2011
Connie Schultz
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Calling all women, make demands on retailers
Opinion Column
For many years, the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society held an annual fair that sold only goods that weren’t made by slaves.
Steubenville missed its chance to set things right
Opinion column
Last month, after a trial that garnered worldwide coverage, two high-school football players in Steubenville, Ohio, were sentenced to youth prison for raping a 16-year-old girl.
In praise of journalists working hard to keep public informed
Opinion Column
For most of us, our first glimpse into the horrors of the Boston Marathon tragedy came through the lens of Boston Globe photojournalist Steve Silva.
We all need someone to love
Opinion Column
It was a hard snow, the kind that stings your face on its way to burying everything in sight.
Resist the Chardon killer’s taunts
Opinion Column
On Tuesday, a year after he murdered three Chardon High School students and injured three others, 18-year-old T.J. Lane walked into his sentencing hearing and made it virtually impossible for most of us to summon even a shred of sympathy for his condemned soul.
This story could save a woman's life
For a split second, Helen Yee thought the guy who opened the passenger door of her car and slid in next to her was a neighbor. Then she saw his gun.
Oberlin: Acts of hate, meant to divide, unite
Opinion Column
True to its legacy, the Oberlin community responded Monday to attempts to divide it by drawing closer.
Judge Yahoo CEO by job, not gender
Opinion column
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is abolishing the company’s work-at-home policy and ordering everyone to show up at the office. Her decision has sparked intense and often nasty debate, with Mayer usually landing on the losing end. Many women, in particular, sound betrayed after daring to expect more from such a high-profile female boss. How could she?
Many Catholic women refuse the notion of never
Opinion Column
Some of the strongest women I know are Catholics who disagree with their church but refuse to give up on it.
Cordele woman with gun has story
Opinion Column
Gina Odom didn’t like guns until she felt that her baby’s safety was threatened.
Praise be, I’m Liberal — and just like you
Recently, a reader wanted to know whether I was aware that Creators Syndicate, which distributes my column, identifies me as a “liberal” on its website.
Who will adopt Russia’s orphans?
I never will forget the first time I met a Russian orphan who had just been adopted by American parents. It was 2003, and I was on a flight out of Moscow. A little boy with big brown eyes sat in the seat next to me. A man sat on the other side of the boy, and it was clear from their clenched hands that they were traveling together.
Brace yourself for battle, Michigan
It was Monday, after school. Toni Coral and four of her fellow high school teachers in Hamtramck, Mich. were finalizing plans for the next morning.
Less worry and more hope comes to diner
Less than a month before the presidential election, a little diner just a short drive from my house made front-page news in The New York Times.
Random acts of Kirkness help out
At 6:23 a.m., I heard the familiar splat of newspapers outside our bedroom window.
Another school year, another round of lockdown drills
The new school year is about to begin, so principals around the country are planning the first of many lockdown drills for their students and staff.
Debate commission is no match for these girls
Three teenage girls from Montclair, N.J., have managed to make the Commission on Presidential Debates in Washington, D.C., look like a small-town after-school club that crouches behind a sign that reads, “No Girlz Allowed.”
Every American should get one vote, every time
We're having the wrong conversation about recent attempts to restrict voters' rights in America.
Eventually, home care pay is personal
In the last years of her life, my mother was a home care worker for hospice.
Walking into future of marriage equality
The plan was to take a morning walk with our dog before tackling another busy Saturday.
You need a thriving newsroom, too
A couple of weeks ago, my husband and I were standing in a hardware store trying to figure out which contraption works best for storing a garden hose.
Catholic leaders must dial down rhetoric
As a non-Catholic, I wrestled with an internal conflict over the birth control battle of the bishops.
Dear moms -- Ignore Time Magazine
In February 1989, I ended a phone interview for a magazine story I was writing and looked up to find my 21-month-old daughter imitating me.
Rachel Maddow brings hope to women
In the early '90s, I was visiting a girls school, when I spotted two third-graders engaged in a heated exchange outside their classroom door.
An empty lot full of meaning
Two and a half years ago, a house in a poor neighborhood in Cleveland made international headlines for the saddest of reasons.
The lonely world of Facebook
After reading Stephen Marche’s cover story about Facebook in the latest issue of The Atlantic, I went online to find the link so that I could — what else? — share it on Facebook.
Trayvon Martin's Fate Is Still Too Many Parents' Fear
Ten years ago, I was a newspaper reporter spending a lot of my days with Michael Green, a 36-year-old African-American man who had recently been released from prison.
Faith and dogs found in Alabama
Last weekend, Newt Gingrich strutted into an overflow crowd of people waiting for him at the Wiregrass Museum in Dothan, Ala., and greeted them with an insult.
Romney's got a woman problem
On the evening of Super Tuesday, a radiant Ann Romney stepped up to the microphone at a Boston rally and took her best shot at changing the subject.
Everyone should know about Chardon
Before this week, most of the country had never heard of Chardon, Ohio.
Whitney Houston was worth our time
You didn't have to like Whitney Houston's music to fall under the spell of her voice.
Komen caves, women pay the price
The Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation has severed its ties with Planned Parenthood.
Answer the question, Candidate Gingrich
You may have noticed that most of the presidential debates are moderated by men, which gives female journalists like me lots of time to watch and listen.
We are women; we are undefeatable
For the past week, the front section of The New York Times’ Dec. 28 issue has been sitting on my kitchen counter in Ohio, growing increasingly crinkled from use and sprinkled with circles, arrows and the occasional exclamation point.
Mitt Romney continues to devolve
Poor Mitt Romney. The Republican presidential candidate has changed everything but his gender to appease his new best friends on the far right.
Class warfare gets codified
When I was growing up, I knew a lot of kids whose fathers didn’t earn a living working in the bowels of a factory like my dad.
One photo shows many stories
Perhaps you have seen this photo. On Facebook maybe or on a military blog, in an email. In the picture, to the right, Marine Lance Cpl. Andrew Paul Carpenter’s dog tags dangle from his dusty boots. A small Bible, bookmarked with his wedding announcement, rests on the floor beside them. Descriptions attached to the photo, which recently has blazed across the Internet, typically invoke the sacrifices of our men and women in uniform and the families who love them.
Death penalty support may be dying
More than a week has passed since the execution of Troy Davis, who insisted he was innocent until his eyes closed forever. Georgia won this battle, but it has potentially ignited a movement to eliminate the death penalty in this country. If we’ve learned anything from Davis’ execution, it’s that our judicial system is too flawed — too human, really — to claim the right to kill another human being. And this time, millions of Americans were paying attention.
Do ask, do tell the new policy
The young man was scared and exhausted as he faced the webcam in the wee hours of the morning and prepared to call his father.
I like the real Jacqueline Kennedy
Finally, we can hear — in her own voice, in her own words — what it was like to be Jackie Kennedy in the wake of unspeakable grief. What a bold and generous gift to the American people.
Trust survives, and we move forward
Last month, I was reading a newspaper in a coffeehouse in downtown Providence, R.I., when a stranger walked over to me and pointed to a nearby table.
Tea party express hits the brakes
It’s not every day you walk into your local baseball park and see a beauty queen — in this instance, Mrs. Ohio — posing with Ben Franklin and Uncle Sam for a photo.
Teachers need to share their stories
Labor Day always triggers memories of the two most important hourly wage earners in my life: my mother and my father.
Show me the voting fraud and felons
Show me the fraud. Show me the hordes of college students using fake IDs to cast votes for president. Show me the poor people boarding buses and trains or walking for miles so they can cast a vote in the wrong precinct using somebody else's name.
Reading a book can change a life
It's hotter than Dante's nine rings of hell outside.Crank up the fans, and pass the pile of books.
Honoring the fallen, a baby at a time
On Aug. 3, 2005, Lance Cpl. Edward "Augie" Schroeder II was one of 14 men in the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment who were killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq.
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