Before Hillary Clinton came “out of the woods” this week and encouraged women to run for office, they had already started signing up to do so in droves.

A lifelong Republican writes that she "began to get uncomfortable" with her party in the 1990s, when she "realized that some would prefer to tear down institutions rather than improve them, just for the destruction itself."

It’s well known that Hillary Clinton may make history as the nation’s first woman president, but less noticed are the many women running for Senate this year who may break a record of their own.

America now ranks 98th in the world for percentage of women in its national legislature. Could policies in Europe help America close the gap?

A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers and Company this morning.

Bill Moyers looks at the rising number of women on the political scene and their impressions of politics and governance.