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Posted at 12:00 PM ET, 12/16/2011

Opinion: Does Newt Gingrich have a woman problem? With Michele Bachmann, yes

By Melinda Henneberger

It takes a lot to get Michele Bachmann to play the gender card. But we all have limits, and Bachmann hit hers in Thursday’s GOP presidential debate.

By Melinda Henneberger | 12:00 PM ET, 12/16/2011 | Permalink | Comments ( 0)

Posted at 01:47 PM ET, 12/15/2011

Opinion: Chelsea Clinton’s affirmative action TV job

By Mary C. Curtis

Chelsea Clinton wasn’t that bad.

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Posted at 12:00 PM ET, 12/14/2011

Opinion: What ‘Women for Cain’ saw in him doesn’t exist in nature

By Donna Trussell

Voters want a “regular” guy who goes hunting and enjoys low-brow TV but is smart enough to solve the world’s most challenging problems.

By Donna Trussell | 12:00 PM ET, 12/14/2011 | Permalink | Comments ( 0)

Posted at 01:50 PM ET, 12/13/2011

Chelsea Clinton panned for doing some good in new TV job

By Sandra Fish

There’s a bigger story here than nepotism, though, and it’s a story that Chelsea Clinton brought to light.

By Sandra Fish | 01:50 PM ET, 12/13/2011 | Permalink | Comments ( 0)

Posted at 12:00 PM ET, 12/13/2011

Are Rick Perry’s oopsies all in his head?

By Melinda Henneberger

As Joel Achenbach noted after Perry froze during a GOP debate and couldn’t come up with the third federal agency he wants to do away with, a “brain freeze” can result from anxiety.

By Melinda Henneberger | 12:00 PM ET, 12/13/2011 | Permalink | Comments ( 0)

Posted at 07:00 AM ET, 12/06/2011

Opinion: The Gingrich who stole Christmas

By Mary C. Curtis

Rather than back off his plan to rethink “stupid” child labor laws and put children as young as 9 to work as school janitors — scrubbing, cleaning and moving around file cabinets — Newt Gingrich has doubled down.

By Mary C. Curtis | 07:00 AM ET, 12/06/2011 | Permalink | Comments ( 0)

Posted at 12:00 PM ET, 12/05/2011

Ginger White says multiple men helped her financially

By Melinda Henneberger

White says former GOP candidate Herman Cain wasn’t the only man who helped her financially.

By Melinda Henneberger | 12:00 PM ET, 12/05/2011 | Permalink | Comments ( 0)

Posted at 12:00 PM ET, 11/09/2011

Sexual harassment deserves a place among ‘the real issues’

By Melinda Henneberger

Cain and his campaign aside, the way politicians and the press, too, have been talking about the allegations against him in the last week suggest that sexual harassment is this exotic, rarely glimpsed phenomenon — difficult to distinguish, and not worth the effort.

By Melinda Henneberger | 12:00 PM ET, 11/09/2011 | Permalink | Comments ( 0)

She The People: January, 2012