Yahoo Orders Home Workers Back to the Office

Claire Cain Miller and Catherine Rampell of The New York Times write: “Since Marissa Mayer became chief executive of Yahoo, she has been working hard to get the Internet pioneer off its deathbed and make it an innovator once again. She started with free food and new smartphones for every employee, borrowing from the playbook Read more …

This Season’s Paul Ryan? Eric Cantor Takes On VAWA

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is a powerful player on Capitol Hill who has pretty much flown under the radar with the general public. But I predict that won’t be true much longer. Now that Cantor is taking the lead on blocking reauthorization of an inclusive version of the Violence Against Women Act in the Read more …

Debating the Semantics of ‘Rape’

Ginia Bellafante at The New York Times writes: “‘Makers: Women Who Make America,’ an expansive, multipart documentary beginning Tuesday on PBS that chronicles the modern feminist movement, illustrates, among other things, how much of the ethos of the 195…

How could The Onion’s Quvenzhané Wallis tweet go so wrong?

Prachi Gupta at Salon writes: “Most likely–The Onion has not yet responded to Salon for comment–whoever tweeted that was trying to bring America’s fawning obsession with the child-star down a notch with a dose of schadenfreude. But that’s not how most of…