Jessica Mason Pieklo writes for RH Reality Check: “On Thursday the Senate Judiciary Committee approved Patricia Millett’s nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, despite ongoing Republican attempts to block any confirmations to the…
Katha Pollitt writes for The Nation: “When it comes to abortion, is Europe like Texas with fresher fruit and topless beaches? As pro-choicers battled the Lone Star State’s proposed ban on abortion after twenty weeks, conservative pundits shrugged: So wha…
Katie J.M. Baker writes for Jezebel: “The word ‘rape’ does not factor into Yale’s new report on how the university is handling sexual misconduct; instead, the act is described as ‘nonconsensual sex,’ and it’s usually punishable by ‘written reprimand.’ (S…
Jonathan Chait writes for New York Magazine’s Daily Intelligencer: “The hard-money cranks of the right have spent the Obama years nurturing fears of incipient inflation that never seems to arrive, yet whose non-arrival never dents their airtight worldvie…
Martha Burk writes for Other Words: “McDonald’s really stepped in it this summer when the fast food empire created a budget for its underpaid employees to help them make ends meet on the low wages they bring home after flipping burgers all week.”