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On June 22, 1941, the Third Reich launched its ill-fated invasion of Russia. It was pestilential in scale; more than three million Axis soldiers swarmed Russia’s borders in a matter of hours, overwhelming Soviet defenses. Hitler regarded the peoples of the Soviet Union to be a subhuman rabble against whom victory was inevitable. But the supposed Untermensch turned out to be ferocious opponents, hardened by decades of deprivation and fueled by an unbending love of country. Among those supercharged patriots were eight hundred thousand women who volunteered for frontline action, in roles such as snipers, machine gunners, and tank drivers....

‘Someone wins, someone doesn’t win, that’s life,” Nancy Kopp, Maryland’s treasurer, told the Washington Post. “But women don’t want to be totally dissed.” She was talking about her political candidate, Hillary Clinton. Democratic women are feeling metaphorically battered by the Obama campaign. “Healing The Wounds Of Democrats’ Sexism,” as the Boston Globe headline put it, will not be easy. Geraldine Ferraro is among many prominent Democrat ladies putting up their own money for a study from the Shorenstein Center at Harvard to determine whether Senator Clinton’s presidential hopes fell victim to party and media sexism. How else to explain why...

Maureen Dowd just completed an interview on the Today show to flack her book, "Are Men Necessary?" Not seeing Dowd much in the flesh, what struck me first and foremost was how depressed she seems. This is a sad woman. While her words have spark, her tone and body language are virtually inert. I'd guess she has a clinical diagnosis. On the other hand, in a manner rarely seen in Today guests, Dowd dared to turn the table on her hosts. When Matt Lauer suggested that she had used her feminine charms to get ahead, referring to her as a...

The last few weeks on my radio show, I’ve been covering a topic that is one of my regular themes, which is how women screw up just about every relationship we’re in. I’ve got a list of ways we screw up our relationships, but it really boils down to a couple of biggies. Women just don’t want to be happy. Don’t believe me? Well, then, you’re simply not paying attention. First, we weren’t happy because we didn’t have any options. Then after we got the options, we weren’t happy because we had too many choices from which to choose. But...