Ellen Goodman on Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines

Forget Roe, Try Griswold

2012-01-22T23:06:00+00:00

Sunday marks the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, but the big news this year is the debate over the 1965 decision of Griswold v. Connecticut that made contraception legal.

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Equal Rites Awards 2011

2011-08-26T06:12:00+00:00

Our one-woman panel prepares in good spirit to hand out the Equal Rites Awards to all those who did their best to do the worst for women in the past year. The envelopes please.

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This Friend Was a Fighter

2011-03-29T09:01:00+00:00

We became friends long after we had known each other as candidate and journalist, long after the grit that Geraldine Ferraro showed facing down press and politicians had been transformed into the grit she showed facing multiple myeloma.

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No Time for ’Tirement’

2011-01-03T02:52:00+00:00

In little over a century, Americans have gone from a life expectancy of 47 to one of 78. By 2025 there will be 66 million Americans over 65. The decisions that we make individually and collectively about how to spend this gift of time will reshape the country.

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The Equal Rites Awards—Again

2010-08-27T08:11:00+00:00

And so we rise to celebrate Aug. 26, the 90th anniversary of the day American women finally won the right to vote.

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Letting Go

2010-01-01T06:32:00+00:00

There is something fitting about writing my last column on the first day of a new year. January, after all, is named for the Roman god of beginnings and endings. [Editor’s note: This is Ellen Goodman’s final column.]

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Women

2009-12-24T06:22:00+00:00

I am time-traveling these days because on Jan. 1 I’ll be ending my tenure as a syndicated columnist. During the last four decades, I’ve tracked one story more than any other.

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Whatever Happened to Shame?

2009-12-17T06:20:00+00:00

What does it say when the New York Post hires Eliot Spitzer’s prostitute as a columnist and the bailout babies of Wall Street can’t be bothered to show up to the White House?

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