Mary Elizabeth Williams writes for Salon: “Easiest quiz you’ll take today: Let’s say an eminent scientist and inventor, an individual who worked on the first American satellite designs, dies after a long and distinguished career. Why would the first thing mentioned in the New York Times obituary be in praise of said scientist’s cooking skills? Read more …
Charlotte Childress and Harriet Childress write for The Washington Post: “Nearly all of the mass shootings in this country in recent years — not just Newtown, Aurora, Fort Hood, Tucson and Columbine — have been committed by white men and boys. Yet when t…
Anna North writes for BuzzFeed: “One of the most persistent narratives of the Great Recession has been the so-called ‘end of men’ — that is, the ebbing of men’s historical dominance over the world of work. Many have noted that this dominance hasn’t actua…
Callie Beusman writes for Jezebel: ” If you’re at all like North Dakota Congressman Kevin Cramer, you’ll know that the best way to comport yourself in a hearing at which a deeply disenfranchised population is attempting to redress the systematic injustic…
TRIGGER WARNING Jamilah King writes for Colorlines: “Individual social media-related firings always make news, but the bigger story here is how Richards became the target of a very particular kind of harassment. Social media trolls repeatedly called Richards the n-word and threatened to rape her. Some scoured the Internet for her personal information and put Read more …
