Melinda Henneberger is a contributing writer for Slate, a columnist for the Catholic opinion journal Commonweal, and the author of If They Only Listened to Us: What Women Voters Want Politicians to Hear. For 10 years, she was a reporter for The New York Times. She lives outside Washington with her husband, Washington Post reporter Bill Turque, and their 12-year-old twins. Nothing in their house is off-the-record.