“If you want a hearing, you better shut up,” Senator Orrin Hatch told a group of protesters who had arrived at Monday afternoon’s Finance Committee hearing to voice their concerns about the revised Graham-Cassidy bill. Last week, Graham-Cassidy, the latest Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, looked like…
Here is a staggering statistic: more than half of the rural counties in the United States no longer have a local hospital with a maternity ward, leaving pregnant women without necessary—and potentially lifesaving—pre- and post-natal care.
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The debut issue of Goop’s magazine is dedicated, Editor-in-Chief Gwenyth Paltrow writes, to “wellness.” That’s no surprise, as Paltrow and her brand have built a small empire on “wellness,” a word that—in large part due to Paltrow’s influence and Goop’s success—has popped up in nearly every woman’s publication in the…
Nearly six months after Fox News parted ways with Bill O’Reilly, Today finally offered him the chance for redemption. In a segment Tuesday morning, Matt Lauer asked O’Reilly about the sexual harassment charges leveled against him while O’Reilly insisted that the allegations were untrue—little more, O’Reilly argued,…
“Fascinating but often frustrating” and “too sloppy with the facts to succeed” and full of “baffling errors that threaten to undermine her entire book,” is how writer Michelle Goldberg describes Vanessa Grigoriadis’s new book, Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, in an early September review in…
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Hillary Clinton’s memoir, What Happened, should never have been written. Or maybe it’s a “feminist manifesto.” Or perhaps Clinton’s book is an unwelcome post-mortem, inspiring little more than “dread” and an audible “collective groan” from fellow Democrats. Maybe. Or maybe that response is just base misogyny, an “…
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt said on late Thursday that it was “insensitive” to talk about climate change as Hurricane Irma bears down on Florida.
The feminist writer and activist Kate Millett died on September 6 at the age of eighty-two. The cause of death was cardiac arrest. Millett was in Paris with her wife, Sophie Keir, when she died.
A Wednesday report from The Atlantic outlining the deal Democrats struck with Donald Trump to package Hurricane Harvey relief with a three-month extension of government funding and a deal to raise the debt ceiling included a surprise appearance from America’s more visible first daughter. Ivanka Trump joined the…
For those of you who have been clamoring for some gender parity (writer’s note: no one has asked for this) in this, our humble, regular feature, Big Time Small-Time Dicks, I present Kimberley Paige Barnette.
In a brief address, Attorney General Jeff Sessions confirmed that the Trump administration would “wind down” the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program implemented by the Obama administration in 2012.
A week after Louise Linton’s l’affaire Instagram, the Treasury’s Office of Inspector General said that they are reviewing Steve Mnuchin and Linton’s use of a government plane to view the eclipse.
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Twenty years after Diana’s death, every detail of her life and death has been excavated and studied with microscopic furor. The cause of the crash, the lurid details of a gruesome accident, the Queen, the mountains of flowers, the callous ex-husband, and the two pitiful princes are all histories that have been written…
Eager to add yet another blonde talking head to its roster, Fox News announced on Wednesday that it hired Tomi Lahren as a contributor. According to Fox, Lahren will have a “signature role” in a “digital product currently in development.” Lahren will also offer her very necessary and insightful political commentary…
In what really seems like a last minute decision, Donald Trump has declared Saturday Women’s Equality Day. According to the announcement sent just before the end of the workday, the president chose August 26 to honor the passage of the 19th Amendment, which was ratified on that day in 1920.
Earlier this week, debut novelist Lani Sarem seemed to accomplish a surprising coup: her book, Handbook for Mortals, a fantasy novel slated to be the first in a series, unseated Angie Thomas’s acclaimed The Hate U Give as the top-selling Young Adult book in America. With little pre-publication buzz and none of the fan…
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