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In an exclusive essay the Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA, Fortune 500) chairman and CEO explains why women are key to America’s prosperity. In the flood of words written recently about women and work, one related and hugely significant point seems to me to have been neglected. It has to do with America’s future, about which —…

By Molly Ball, The Atlantic- In the two-year cycle of the political calendar, it is candidate-recruitment season—the time when Washington operatives fan out across the country to size up the political horseflesh. In the months to come, they will meet with scores of state legislators, small-town mayors, community activists, and upstanding business owners, gauging which ones might…

Cancer survivor Helene Neville is the ‘One On The Run’, as she embarks May 1, on a 1,500-mile journey from Canada to Mexico Longtime athlete and four-time cancer survivor Helene Neville (53) kicks off her border-to-border run on May 1, 2013 to raise awareness for the disease and using exercise and healthy living to overcome…

By MAGGIE HABERMAN, POLITICO – There’s a female politician from New York who is beloved by gay rights activists, has amassed a national fundraising network and is viewed by many Democrats as a viable presidential candidate. And her name is not Hillary Clinton. If Clinton runs for president, New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s time won’t be…

by MARILYN GEEWAX, NPR – Many revolutions begin with the sound of explosions and marching boots. Now, another revolution is shaking up the world, and it’s moving forward to the beep of alarm clocks and the clack of heels heading out. Legions of women around the world are leaving their homes to join the paid labor…

A Senate in the Gun Lobby’s Grip – By GABRIELLE GIFFORDS SENATORS say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets. The fear that those children…

By Laurie Goodstein, New York Times – Pope Francis has reaffirmed the reprimand of American nuns issued by his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, and endorsed the plan to have three bishops supervise an overhaul of the nation’s largest umbrella group of American nuns. The announcement from the Vatican on Monday dashed the hopes of Catholic sisters and their supporters,…

Boston Globe – President Obama said Tuesday investigators do not know whether the bombs that killed three and wounded dozens at the Boston Marathon were an act of a single person or a an organized group — or why they were planted — but that the “American people refused to be terrorized.’’ The president said investigators…