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Kyle Schmidlin: Republicans Are Trying to Make Fascism Edgy and Hip

By declaring all opposition to themselves anti-fascism, MAGA isn’t leaving much mystery about their leanings.

October 25, 2025 · 5 Comments

Mel Leonor Barclay and Shefali Luthra: ICE puts pregnant immigrants and their babies at risk

Fear of deportation is deterring people without permanent legal status from critical care. Doctors are worried for their health — and the health of their pregnancies.

October 21, 2025 · 4 Comments

ERIN AUBRY KAPLAN: CAN WOMEN WIN?

It will take concerted action to ensure that women belong in the House.

May 29, 2024 · 1 Comment

Brett Wilkins: Congressman Mike Collins Cheers Video of Ole Miss Mob Attack on Black Student

This is not about Israel, Palestine, or Gaza. This is old-fashioned American racism and misogyny…

May 7, 2024 · 3 Comments

Nina Burleigh: Right-Wing Extremists Are Making Fiction Come True

Can Democrats Craft a Winning Message Off a Smorgasbord of Misogynist Madness?

August 2, 2022 · 4 Comments

H. Patricia Hynes: Abortion | What a Complex Web They Weave

Misogyny and injustice fuel the control of women’s bodies.

February 3, 2022 · Leave a comment

Sonali Kolhatkar: Beyond Cancel Culture | How to Hold Each Other Accountable—With Love

‘We can’t go around punishing people in the present for the trauma that was inflicted on us in the past.’

September 23, 2021 · 2 Comments

Budd McClure: Donald Trump’s Hatred of Women

Michael Cohen: “I bore witness to the real man, in strip clubs, shady business meetings, and in the unguarded moments when he revealed who he really was: a cheat, a liar, a fraud, a bully, a racist, a predator, a con man.”

October 23, 2020 · 1 Comment

Abby Zimet: Thank you, Elizabeth

A respectful, sorrowful, grateful farewell to Elizabeth Warren, the smartest, fiercest candidate in the race and one who deserved better from our still deeply sexist culture.

March 7, 2020 · 1 Comment

Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz: What an American Terrorist Looks Like

Despite racist and anti-immigrant scapegoating, data shows that most American terrorists are resentful White men inspired by White supremacist and misogynist rhetoric.

August 15, 2019 · Leave a comment

Abby Zimet: The Immeasurable Creepiness of Roy Moore

Because it’s not bad enough he’s reportedly leading in the polls in Alabama, where we’re pretty sure we don’t want to live, and he’s a God-spouting bigot who fetishizes the … Continue reading

December 2, 2017 · Leave a comment

Colin Beavan: What Happens When Men Say #MeToo, Too?

As a self-identified feminist man who has survived abuse, I wonder how and if I should participate in the conversation. There was the man giving 16-year-old me a ride on … Continue reading

November 5, 2017 · 3 Comments

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