Today is Moon Day, forty-four years to the day after Apollo 11 made their first lunar landing in 1969. You have a few choices. You could howl at it, or you could read Lily Koppel's new book The Astronaut Wives Club, the true story of the ladies married to NASA's Mercury Seven team in 1959. Read more
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Helen Thomas, one of the first female reporters to break out of the White House's "women's beat" (e.g. FLOTUS hair styles) and the first ever female member (later, president) of the White House Correspondent's Association has passed away at 92. Over the course of her career, she grilled nine US presidents in her… Read more
Philly-based artist John Corey Brinkley is selling an illustration of Sen. Wendy Davis — on stationary cards, iPhone cases, etc. at $15 a pop. All proceeds will be donated to Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas. Read more
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