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This week on To The Contrary with Bonnie Erbe, our panelists discuss Trump’s first 100 days in office; his daughter, Ivanka; and an organization fighting poverty with a two-generation approach.

On the panel this week joining host Bonnie Erbe is Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC); Rina Shah, republican strategist; Rose Aguilar, Your Call host; and Anneke E. Green, senior director of the White House Writers Group.

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This week on To The Contrary with Bonnie Erbe, our panelists discuss Fox News’ ouster of host Bill O’Reilly, Ivanka Trump’s business and Betsy DeVos’ plan for the Dept. of Education.

On the panel this week joining host Bonnie Erbe is Donna Edwards, former representative (D-MD); Sabrina Schaeffer, executive director of IWF; Hilary Rosen, democratic strategist; and Jennifer Higgins, GOP political strategist.

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By: Sallie Bingham

Christ is made the sure foundation,
Christ the head and corner stone…

Reimagining the way the Christian Church in all its forms might benefit women, or at least welcome us and allow us to feel comfortable in its formidable edifices, raises, inevitably, the issue of language, as I was reminded by Buck Duke’s bronze plaque on the side of the Duke “chapel”—impressive as a cathedral—honoring the master stone mason who made those walls. Admirable, and unusual, as this plaque is in honoring a man who worked on the church rather than designing it, this plaque also raises the interesting question of whether this language would have seemed usable to a European stone mason whose first language was not English.

This week on To The Contrary with Bonnie Erbe, our panelists discuss Trump’s quiet rollback of family planning services, gender reassignment surgery and the First Amendment.

On the panel this week joining host Bonnie Erbe is Ann Stone, co-founder of Women for Trump; Latifa Lyles, former head of the women’s bureau at the U.S. Dept. of Labor; Jennifer Higgins, GOP political strategist; and Patricia Sosa, progressive commentator.  

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Still in the Game---And Why Not?

by Kathryn Grody

It was the kind of March weather where you promise yourself that no matter what, you will not complain about any kind of summer heat. I had just finished a 40 minute precor aerobic workout, followed by a true 20 minutes of floor work for the core as it twere, and feeling incredibly fit and therefore young or at the very least, ageless,  I zipped up my down coat, and raced to the subway where I managed to just bravely squeeze thru the already closing doors…I stood, holding onto the available pole with one hand reading my New Yorker with the other, and smiled at the young woman who bounded up in front of me..thinking, wow, nice, a young person who notices someone elderly…and looking around for whom she was offering her seat to, I realized with serious shock and horror…..that she was standing for me!!!

“Do I look like I need a friggin seat?? I hissed at her..”I just came from a serious workout at the friggin gym!!”