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Features editor. Writing at the intersection of women's health, politics, and history. Work at Lapham's Quarterly, Aeon, The Awl, Self, and Cabinet. Writing a book about hysteria.
No one knows what they’re doing.
Hillary Clinton’s memoir, What Happened, should never have been written. Or maybe it’s a “feminist manifesto.” Or…
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt said on late Thursday that it was “insensitive” to talk…
The feminist writer and activist Kate Millett died on September 6 at the age of eighty-two. The cause of death was…
A Wednesday report from The Atlantic outlining the deal Democrats struck with Donald Trump to package Hurricane…
For those of you who have been clamoring for some gender parity (writer’s note: no one has asked for this) in this,…
In a brief address, Attorney General Jeff Sessions confirmed that the Trump administration would “wind down” the…
In what really seems like a last minute decision, Donald Trump has declared Saturday Women’s Equality Day. According…
Earlier this week, debut novelist Lani Sarem seemed to accomplish a surprising coup: her book, Handbook for Mortals,…
Welcome to Barf Bag, a daily politics roundup to help you sort through the chaotic Trumpian news cycle.
I turned off Donald Trump’s Tuesday night campaign rally speech after watching for about 30ish minutes, roughly…
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Friends, I’d just like to share this Florida story with you.
In a Tuesday interview, Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin told MSNBC’s Chris Matthews that, two years after the state…
On Tuesday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a restrictive abortion bill into law that would require women to pay…
On Monday evening, protesters in Durham, North Carolina pulled down a Confederate monument that had stood in front…
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Two days after responding to the attack in Charlotteville, Virginia that left one dead and numerous people injured…