A new kind of female candidate emerged this week: rich, self-made and Republican. Clara Bingham looks at women in politics, then and now.
Clara Bingham is the co-author of Class Action: The Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law and author of Women on the Hill: Challenging the Culture of Congress. A former Newsweek correspondent who covered the first Bush White House, Bingham has also written for Vanity Fair, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Washington Monthly, and Talk.
Even before the explosion in West Virginia that killed 25 of his company's employees, Don Blankenship was a Hollywood-caliber villain. Clara Bingham on a coal executive with a seeming disregard for worker safety.
Once part of the most powerful couples in Washington, Elizabeth Dole is fighting for her political future in a dirty race that has left her appearing unfair and unscrupulous.