Middle class families deserve to be heard in Congress – heard and listened to. They deserve to know that the programs their families rely on, from Pell Grants, to Medicare, to Social Security, will continue to be there for them. They deserve a democracy that lives up to the one they were promised,...

This post originally appeared on Sightline Daily . My daughter will turn three this year, and we just enrolled her in preschool! With all our childcare at home to date, we've been lucky to avoid lots of extra running around with the kid. So, no sooner had we signed little Audrey up for preschool...

As the mother of a teen, I’ve approached that point in parenting where I’m compelled to spend much of the next several years concerned about the nature of my child’s relationships and when and whether they might involve sex. I know I’m hardly alone in this worry since, as a sex educator, I’ve spent...

Crossposted with author permission from the Huffington Post . As the right grumbles and gossips about Chief Justice John Roberts’ majority opinion upholding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the left largely celebrates and ponders it, the response of our two most populous...