An Ambitious Woman after the End of Ambition
When you don’t shift with the vibe
Ambition has always been a squicky term when applied to women....
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Run on Abortion
Kansas is a sign: If Democrats champion winning issues, Democrats will win
Abortion bans are moral disasters. The result of these bans shocks the conscience of any decent person. That’s part of why we saw Kansas go the way it did. It’s also why Democrats need to run on abortion rights....
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Brett Kavanaugh’s Right to Privacy
The legal right to privacy is very old. It’s just that privacy used to be an exclusively male privilege.
All of a sudden, privacy rights matter to the same conservatives who just stripped women of ours—because powerful men are seeing their privacy violated....
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Why do childfree women inspire so much ire?
A Q&A with the filmmaker behind “My So-Called Selfish Life”
Historically, I think a lot more people would have preferred not to have children if they could have prevented a pregnancy. A stat I have heard is that something like half of all pregnancies in the US are not planned, so if half the people in this country are getting ...
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Texas Women Just Lost Their Right to Their Own Bodies
It’s time to fight back, and time to understand the anti-feminist backlash that allowed this to happen.
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I am frothing and devastated watching the Supreme Court allow Texas to functionally overturn Roe v. Wade. I’m angry in a million different directions: At the woman-hating “pro-life” movement that has spent decades working up to this moment; at Democrats who have never done enough to preserve abortion rights; at ...
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