The Men Pushing to Open the Economy Clearly Don’t Need Child Care Elie Mystal, The Nation What I need is for somebody to come take my children. A school bus. A babysitter. A freaking traveling circus. It doesn’t really matter. My economy cannot “reopen,” life cannot return to “normal” for me, until fully functional child care comes…

Another week under the stay-at-home mandate has passed. But this weekend is a tough one because we will not celebrate Easter in any traditional sense. We have the outfits for the children and their beautiful Easter baskets. But we won’t have that long lunch with family or attend the service at church. And I love…

As we complete another week under a state mandated stay-at-home order, I am both hopeful and uneasy about how long this way of life might last. I am hopeful because my family has settled in to our new routine. A sense of normalcy has returned as I attend board meetings on Zoom and schedule virtual…

It is more difficult each day to find non Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic news. I know there will be countless stories of heroic women when the storm has passed. In the meantime, it feels like watching a storm in slow motion. We know the damage was done before our closures and social distancing measures were put…

Days feel like weeks. Weeks seem to last a month. Watching the country and many parts of our economy shutdown over the past week has been surreal. Last Thursday’s historic 10% market drop would soon be overshadowed by Monday’s 13% decline. Our economy was not designed with this type of immediate shutdown in mind. It…

It was another wild week for financial markets and for the day to day lives of Americans. Thursday’s 10% decline in U.S. stocks was the largest single day drop since the October 1987 crash. It was followed by an equally historic gain of 9.5% on Friday, as the President declared the COVID-19 coronavirus a national…

It was another wild week on Wall Street, with stocks trading up and down more than 2% every day. Monday was up, Tuesday down, Wednesday up 4.4%, then down Thursday and Friday. It was enough to give investors whiplash. Meanwhile there are growing numbers of confirmed COVID-19 coronavirus cases in the US. These numbers will…

What a week! The S&P 500 Index declined 11.50% and the Dow lost more than 12%. Every day felt like a sucker punch, and it was weird to feel relieved when the market closed down ‘only’ 1.5% on Friday. The importance of having a plan in place before things get bad was on full display….

19th Amendment, 19 Women: The New York Philharmonic’s 2020 Program Celebrates Suffragists NPR, Weekend Edition “Less than 3% of the music presented on the concert stage is written by women,” says Deborah Borda, the orchestra’s president and CEO, and one of the architects of Project 19. That’s worldwide, not just in the United States, which…

House Votes to Eliminate Deadline on Adding ERA to Constitution Natalie Andrews, Wall Street Journal The effort to pass the ERA has seen a revival as of late, as more state legislatures have voted to ratify the 24-word amendment to the Constitution that says “equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by…