By Chris Lombardi

Why is it dangerous to call the Ohio kidnappings “a domestic-violence” situation? Because we are all too familiar with—and consequently, numb to—the horrors embedded in violence against women.

By Chris Lombardi

Women from very different worlds, including a Hollywood star; senators; congresswomen; and veterans from all branches of the military, converged in Washington, D.C., last month to address an age-old crime.

Two proposals for solving the child-care puzzle—one innovative, one a practical, do-able idea dating back to the days of Rosie the Riveter.

Dove’s new “real beauty” ad campaign, using “forensic sketches,” aims to reassure you that “You’re not as fat/freckled/old as you think.”

Is Huma Abedin ready for the challenges of a new mayoral campaign with husband Anthony Weiner? Yes, but only if she’s the candidate.

By Chris Lombardi

In “Holding Silvan,” Monica Wesolowska explores with honesty the kind of questions most of us don’t want to think about — the kind of choices people make for their loved ones when they’re about to die.

When a woman is the main character, it makes the show all that much harder to resist: part of me is still in mourning for Geena Davis’s short-lived 2005 ‘Commander in Chief’. Which is why, despite some misgivings, I’m actually looking forward to the return of Julia Louis-Dreyfus in HBO’s ‘Veep.’

To me and to many others, all of the president’s “You have to be careful to first say” praise sounded like one of those cover phrases, as in “I’m not a sexist, but . . .” Kamala Harris deserved better.

If Caroline Kennedy is, indeed, appointed ambassador to Japan, sources speculate, she—like Hillary Clinton—could be a powerful force for the rights of women.

Season 6 of “Mad Men” is set in 1968. But how can they jam it all in? The Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy assassinations, Apollo 7, protesting feminists, the antiwar movement, the musical “Hair” . . . ?

The objectification of women in men’s magazines infuriates us—but how about looking critically at magazines supposedly meant for the female gaze?

This week in Washington, D.C, the hottest ticket is to witness the Supreme Court hear arguments in two different cases involving marriage equality.

Ashley Judd’s determination to ignore partisan signaling and focus on rarely addressed, important issues is why her run for the Senate is causing the political establishment to go mildly berserk.

By Chris Lombardi

Coverage of the rape trial in Steubenville, Ohio, was inexcusable. Viewers and consumers of the news need to demand responsible coverage of violence against women.

In the second 2012 Presidential debate, Martha Raddatz asked multiple follow-up questions and, when unsatisfied with an answer, signaled so: “No specifics, I see.” CNN’s Candy Crowley was explicit in planning a similar pattern for the third debate. The pundit crowd was aghast. It’s perhaps appropriate that two seasoned women journalists were the ones to flip the script on the kind of low-profile-moderator debates that the League of Women Voters has called “campaign-trail charades.”