Recent, radical attacks on abortion rights are the legacy of decades of compromise.
Ann Friedman
Ann Friedman is a columnist for New York magazine’s website and for the Columbia Journalism Review. She also makes pie charts for The Hairpin and Los Angeles magazine. Her work has appeared in ELLE, Esquire, Newsweek, The Observer, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and many other outlets. She lives in Los Angeles, but travels so often the best place to find her is online at annfriedman.com.
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What’s Civility Worth?
It’s not that the political conversation is poisoned with violent rhetoric. It’s that it’s not a conversation at all.
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Choice Rankings
We pushed back against Republicans’ attempt to create a hierarchy of rape. So why are we OK with a hierarchy of abortion?
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Year of the Same
Women’s representation in Congress has actually decreased for the first time in the past three decades.
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Straight Talk
We shouldn’t assure gay teens that their lives will get better without also pledging to make equality a reality.
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The Experience Gap
Obama’s base still wants a positive political experience — not just a set of policy positions.
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Long-Distance Relationships and Gendered Expectations.
Kevin Johnson and Michelle Rhee Yesterday I saw Going the Distance, the new rom-com about a dilemma faced by a lot of young professional couples: What happens when job opportunities put you in different cities? The movie — which I thought was better than a lot of films in this genre — is a decent […]
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The Forever Culture War
Even as we make progress on specific issues, the broader culture war seems to get uglier and uglier.
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The New Workplace Sexism
What men say to other men when women’s backs are turned is damaging, too.
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All Politics Is Identity Politics
We can’t forget that ideology is shaped by personal experience.