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By Sallie Bingham

Last night’s debate—hardly even a debate, in the usual sense—proved to me and to many others that we have a winner in Hillary Clinton, a “Happy Warrior” in her bright-red suit and gleaming smile, as a commentator called her, a winner who is happy in winning and who brings joy to my heart—and to many others.

Her nomination, and soon, her election (by no means assured unless we all get out there and phone bank and canvas and vote) measures a big, although nearly invisible, shift in American culture, one that was taking place during the two decades when some of us felt we were stranded in the old way.

This week on To The Contrary with Bonnie Erbe, our panelists discuss the killings of black men and women by police and the historic California senate race.

On the panel this week joining host Bonnie Erbe is Journalist Anushay Hossain, Washington Examiner’s Ashe Schow, Conservative Commentator Dana White, and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC).

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By Sallie Bingham

This week on To The Contrary with Bonnie Erbe, our panelists discuss politics this week. How are Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump and Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton polling among married and unmarried women? Can the Independent or Green Party take over the election? To The Contrary interviews Jill Stein.  And transgender pregnancies. Could new medical advancements change what the American family looks like in years to come.

On the panel this week joining host Bonnie Erbe is Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD), The Human Rights Campaign Sarah McBride, Center for Equal Opportunity’s Linda Chavez, The Republican Muslim Coalition’s Saba Ahmed

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By Sallie Bingham

I’ve always been intrigued by an alternative version of the Annunciation, that mysterious insemination, not mentioned in the Gospels until two hundred years after Jesus’ birth. My version allows for at least some ambiguity in Mary’s response to the Angel Gabriel’s announcement that she would become the mother of God. A print, possibly a version of Domenico Veneziano’s Annunciation, hung in my childhood bedroom, maybe because its pastel tones made it suitable for a girl, or maybe before its message was deemed equally appropriate.