Hollister and Wilder talk Academy Awards 2021. Yes, Hollister still thinks they are a waste of time, but there’s a lot of backstory on...

Leslie Grossman — the leadership guru for women — and I lead a room on Clubhouse once a week on a unique, hopefully out-of-the-box topic...

Hollister and Wilder take a look at HBO’s The Nevers series, which premiered to the largest audience in HBO history. Yes, it takes place...

This week Hollister and Wilder join Hollywood’s heralding of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, where Chadwick Boseman and Viola Davis raise the...

I have a business friend who gets food delivered to her from someone who lives in her building. I’m not sure if she receives the food...

I am beginning to realize that I have passed the aging point of no return. The first 15 minutes of any conversation I have with any...

Dear Governor Cuomo, Oh how you made us all feel better back last May, when we were searching for leadership that would show a...

I had my second COVID-19 shot two weeks ago … and I had a reaction. At 2 a.m., two nights after the shot, I was lying on the couch at my...

Christine Merser interviews Patrice Tanaka around all things joy… Finding joy, choosing joy, in this difficult time of COVID and...

My daughter's friend posted this picture of her daughter watching Kamala Harris on Saturday night. Stella is almost two. It brought me...

Are all leaders good? Christine Merser and Leslie Grossman talk all things ‘leadership,’ including how to determine what followers you...

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This thing is happening whether we want it to or not. It’s happening whether it’s on the right side of justice, or an abomination of the...

By Kathy Aspden & Christine Merser In a speech in August 2016 in Kentucky, McConnell would say: “One of my proudest moments was when I...

“We should abolish the Electoral College.” I have heard this argument over and over again, most often from voters whose candidate won the...

I Surmise: White Men? If the Shoe Fits September 29, 2020 I have joked with friends about my disdain for white men over fifty....

Journal Entry #1 August 24, 2020 Move in Weekend. I was honestly shocked that it is still happening. Although many schools decided to not...

The texts started Monday during the Democratic National Convention’s opening ceremony and continued through Thursday night. “Wow! I’m...

Photo from Underwood for Congress “We want to go in, and get things done for our communities. This is not some kind of power-play, in the...

"Morally, the [Republican] party is not going where my compass resides. I'm looking forward to being in a party that represents the...

“The Fed is stoking moral hazard.” -Ed Yardeni (CNBC) Despite the tolls the Coronavirus pandemic is taking on the US Economy, stock...

"At present, our country needs women’s idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else" -Shirley Chisholm Photo...

I left campus at the beginning of March, having no idea I wouldn’t return until mid-June to collect my belongings. All of the clothes and...

I have watched AOC’s speech around men bullying women on the floor of Congress (oh happy day!) a number of times since she delivered it....

Photo from https://candacefor24.com/media/ "I'm frustrated with the representation we're seeing from politicians across the board."...

Photo by Wesley Lapointe/ Willamette Week “I believe Portland is a city on the brink of global greatness... but we’re hog-tied in many...

During Obama's first inauguration, he made one stop on his way to his seat. He stopped and hugged John Lewis. After he took the oath, on...

Photo from: Kansas Historical Society "I just made those men of the council believe they were the nicest men in the world, and we got...

By Caroline Randall Williams Originally Published on June 26, 2020 I have rape-colored skin. My light-brown-blackness is a living...

“It’s a broken system, the old way of doing politics... As auditor I fought it. As governor I’ll end it. I’ll take a new approach, one...

Yesterday, SCOTUS ruled that a company can deny “Her” Healthcare coverage if the owner of said company is religiously inclined toward...

“We deserve a leader who represents Texas values: strength, courage, independence, putting our families first — because we sure as heck...

"My intent is for the sculpture to stand as an enduring symbol of our shared belief that all here are sacred and in a sacred place." -...

"I want to get out there and show people that you can be a Republican and be considerate and kind and diverse... We need to have new role...

Cristina Yang, from Grey’s Anatomy, who showed all women how to follow their own pathway to wherever we want to go.

I’m a West Wing girl. I mean, I love The West Wing. I think it’s the finest show ever written for TV, bar none. I think Aaron Sorkin is a...

American Experience: The Vote One hundred years after the passage of the 19th Amendment, The Vote tells the dramatic culmination story of...

"If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier." -Jeannette Pickering Rankin Jeannette...

“We have to flip this seat to make sure that absolutely every Iowan has access to high- quality, affordable health care.” -Theresa...

Meet Sara Gideon, a Democrat running for the Maine Senate seat. Sara is currently the Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives, and...

There are 23 statues of historical figures in New York City’s Central Park, yet not a single one depicts a woman. I remember repeatedly...

“It’s just what they are; they’re jokes. … Most jokes are about Jewish people, rednecks, Black folks. … I didn’t make up the joke; I...

I read the letters between John Adams and his wife, Abigail, and loved her role in the founding of our country. I hoped that other wives,...

It's not that I haven't done it. I dragged my then six-year old to Anita Hill marches and went to D.C. to march with other women. And I...

Over four-hundred-years of oppression, I've written these words before. Ten generations of being forbidden education. Another ten...

It’s not surprising that Governor Whitmer is being attacked (or should we say, bullied) by those around her as she follows the science...

Promising statistics coming out of nations with female head-of-states As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold, let us remember that...

There has always been a divide between the rich and the poor. Some say that it was easier in the past to cross the divide, and others say...