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Nikolas Cruz and Death Penalty Mitigation

Why the Parkland High School shooter tells a bigger story about the path to becoming a murderer

August 26, 2022 • by Janet Golden

People who needed help—intervention, services, resources, did not get it. Systems meant to aid them failed, or could not do so, because of underfunding and bureaucratic eligibility rules that excluded them....

Race

Everyone in the Pool? No—Not Everyone

A site for fun and competition, the swimming pool has its own civil rights history—one that is not yet resolved

May 25, 2022 • by Janet Golden

When you think about desegregation, do you think about schools? Buses? Lunch counters? How about that most innocent, necessary, and often taken for granted of summer recreation spots for hot kids and their parents—the public pool? Yet pools were, and are, a public facility, and because of that were segregated by ...

Politics

Why Hollywood Still Can’t Change a Diaper

Passing the American Families Plan may bring us better films about dads and babies

October 6, 2021 • by Janet Golden

During a year spent at home, one new father reported that he had finally learned “how to properly wash my hands—and a baby’s hands.” A parenting resource, meanwhile, let dad know he could get down on the floor and engage his baby in age-appropriate play. In the midst of the ...

Why Hollywood Still Can’t Change a Diaper

History

Politicians Should Get the History Right—Particularly Their Own History

If Democrats want to be trustworthy they must account for, not hide, how they have changed over time

July 14, 2021 • by Janet Golden and Richard Harris

_____ The Democratic Party’s successful struggle to reject its ugly history of racism and sexism is a source of pride, and justifiably so. So you can imagine how gobsmacked we were upon reading the official history of the national Democratic Party on its own website. Such distortion and historical misrepresentations! According to ...

Politicians Should Get the History Right—Particularly Their Own History

Feature

“Weaponized Babies”

Or, Damn, Why Didn’t I Think of Using That Term?

May 5, 2018 • by Janet Golden

News that Senator Tammy Duckworth brought her baby to the Senate floor for a vote thrilled some and infuriated others. Prior debate over whether babies belonged in the Senate sparked some great pro- and anti-baby remarks that pundits and scholars will enjoy parsing and quoting in coming days, weeks, months… or until ...

Janet Golden

Nikolas Cruz and Death Penalty Mitigation

Why the Parkland High School shooter tells a bigger story about the path to becoming a murderer

Everyone in the Pool? No—Not Everyone

A site for fun and competition, the swimming pool has its own civil rights history—one that is not yet resolved

Why Hollywood Still Can’t Change a Diaper

Passing the American Families Plan may bring us better films about dads and babies

Politicians Should Get the History Right—Particularly Their Own History

If Democrats want to be trustworthy they must account for, not hide, how they have changed over time

“Weaponized Babies”

Or, Damn, Why Didn’t I Think of Using That Term?

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Nikolas Cruz and Death Penalty Mitigation

Why the Parkland High School shooter tells a bigger story about the path to becoming a murderer

Everyone in the Pool? No—Not Everyone

A site for fun and competition, the swimming pool has its own civil rights history—one that is not yet resolved

Why Hollywood Still Can’t Change a Diaper

Passing the American Families Plan may bring us better films about dads and babies

Politicians Should Get the History Right—Particularly Their Own History

If Democrats want to be trustworthy they must account for, not hide, how they have changed over time

“Weaponized Babies”

Or, Damn, Why Didn’t I Think of Using That Term?

I Can’t Just Sit and Complain

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