By Katty KayPresenter, BBC World News@KattyKayBBC
Getty ImagesDemocratic presidential hopefuls (from left) Shirley Chisholm, Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth WarrenWith US Senator Elizabeth Warren withdrawing from the race for the White House, what began as a diverse field of Democratic presidential hopefuls has turned into a familiar contest between two white men. Katty Kay explains why America won't have its first female president just yet.
Tulsi Gabbard has many distinctive qualities. She's a Hawaiian Army National Guard Major, the first Hindu member of Congress and the first Samoan-American voting member of Congress but she is not going to be president of the United States. Read More...
William J. Janklow, 72, the flamboyant former governor of South Dakota who served half a term in the House of Representatives before resigning in the wake of a fatal traffic accident, died Jan. 12 at a hospice in Sioux Falls, S.D.
He had been hospitalized with brain cancer. His son, Russ Janklow, confirmed the death to the Associated Press.
For more than a quarter century, “Wild Bill” Janklow, a Republican, dominated South Dakota’s political landscape. Read More...
I confess, it took me a while to warm up to Maisie Dobbs, the up-by-her-bootstraps private eye of Jacqueline Winspear’s bestselling British cozy mysteries. She was a little too bland and goody-goody for my taste at first — never mind that Hillary Clinton is a fan. But Maisie grew on me.
Her creator, on the other hand — now that’s a whole different story. I fell in love with Jackie Winspear almost at once, right there on Page 24 of her engaging, amusing and moving memoir of growing up in the post-World War II English countryside. Read More...
