Government is here to do the things we can’t do for ourselves, like provide resources and mechanisms to clean up a gigantic oil spill or maintain traffic lights. In order to continue to flourish as a functional society, we need to prevent economic and environmental disasters from occurring in the first place and not simply continue to spend resources and money mitigating the impacts of their aftermath.

Yesterday, I got a message at work from my third child's nursery school: "Your son is making play weapons at school - light sabers, swords and shields. These are not appropriate for nursery school play. Please work with him to understand that these are not ok toys." This is my third child, and...

Mothers’ day is a good time to think about the job itself. I propose moms institute a job-sharing program starting immediately—right after Mothers’ Day. The ideal candidates for this job share: your life-partners and children. While it’s true that mothering is remarkably rewarding occupation, the...

MomsRising's Mother of the Decade video has now been sent to over a million folks and has received many hundreds of thousands of views. Our blog carnival currently features blog post after blog post with the video: http://www.momsrising.org/blog/2010-mother-of-the-decade-blog-carnival/ Mother's Day...