Ellen Goodman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist who has spent most of her life chronicling social change and its impact on American life.
Ellen Goodman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist who has spent most of her life chronicling social change and its impact on American life.
Ellen Goodman / TruthdigSep 17, 2009
For me, the real Obama moment of this back-to-work season wasn't the speech before Congress or Wall Street. It was in the Virginia schoolhouse when a ninth-grader asked him a question that had nothing and everything to do with his presidency. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Ellen Goodman / TruthdigSep 10, 2009
The spotlight of the Great Recession has been properly on the nearly 10 percent of workers who are unemployed. But there has been far less said about the collateral damage on the 90 percent who "still have a job" but are looking at the empty seats. Fearfully. Gratefully. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Ellen Goodman / TruthdigSep 3, 2009
When exactly did the Republicans start operating one of those marketing scams that target the elderly? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Ellen Goodman / TruthdigAug 27, 2009
The obituaries say that Kennedy never achieved the dream of becoming president. But there is a difference between a family destiny and a man's dream. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Ellen Goodman / TruthdigAug 20, 2009
Every year at this time, we celebrate the anniversary of women's suffrage by recognizing those who have done their best over the last 12 months to set back the cause of women. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Ellen Goodman / TruthdigAug 6, 2009
The screwball industry has ratcheted up from accusing Obama of killing his grandma to accusing him of trying to kill your grandma. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Ellen Goodman / TruthdigJul 23, 2009
I don't know that we will ever have a dramatic moment in the annals of Big Food like the 1994 testimony of tobacco executives before Congress. But I have begun to wonder whether this is the summer when the (groaning) tables have turned on the obesity industry. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Ellen Goodman / TruthdigJul 16, 2009
The would-be first Latina justice faces a committee with only two women members in order to get confirmed by a Senate with only 17 women for a seat on a court with only one woman. And yet Sotomayor has to prove that she isn't biased. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Ellen Goodman / TruthdigJul 8, 2009
What fans loved about Sarah Palin was her perceived authenticity. She was repeatedly described as "real." But now it appears she doesn't really know who she is. Or what she wants. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Ellen Goodman / TruthdigJul 2, 2009
As a society, and as individuals, we are woefully unprepared for aging, even when it's our parents. About 34 million Americans provide at least some of the care for frail, aging family members, and yet we don't see it as a normal, predictable part of the life cycle. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Ellen Goodman / TruthdigJun 25, 2009
Journalism is famously described as "the first rough draft of history." But the history of this Iranian moment is a first, rough hailstorm of bits and bytes, tweets and texts. In the tweet of Mousavil388: "One Person=One Broadcaster." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Ellen Goodman / TruthdigJun 18, 2009
At the meeting of the American Medical Association, Barack Obama tackled the model "that has taken the pursuit of medicine from a profession -- a calling -- to a business." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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