Every year, Working Mother magazine announces its much-anticipated “100 Best Companies.” Employers leap to publicize their inclusion on the list, and it’s routinely a best-selling issue. But is the “100 Best” — and similar lists published by other magazines and organizations — much more than public relations? Large companies are already required by the Family […]
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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ANTI-SEX LOGIC
ANTI-SEX LOGIC. As someone who endured many abstinence assemblies during my 13 years in Catholic school, I wasn’t terribly shocked by yesterday’s news that Montgomery County junior high kids are being forced to share chewing gum to demonstrate why sex is icky. Another well-known abstinence-only “game” is to have the kids suck on a lollipop, […]
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LIBBY, PLAME, AND THE NIE
LIBBY, PLAME, AND THE NIE. The defense rested in the Scooter Libby trial yesterday, after offering a very brief case and without, of course, calling either Libby himself or Vice President Cheney. Was this a sign of the defense’s confidence? Or a sign it believed Libby’s odds on appeal were better than at trial, and […]
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QUEER EYE FOR THE SPORTS GUYS
QUEER EYE FOR THE SPORTS GUYS. As a straight guy, I can tell you how easy it is for straight guys to make fun of gay men who are demonstrably effeminate. (I�d be lying if I said I have never made gay jokes; in certain settings straight men often make gay remarks, often about and […]
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V for Vendetta
Free Cupid! The plea was repeated today on fliers spread around the campuses of the University of Missouri-Columbia, Arizona State, and a handful of other colleges across the country. The image? A cherub shackled to a ball and chain, head hung low, weeping. The culprit? The Vagina Monologues. “The V-Day movement is about taking away […]
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ALL’S NOT FAIR IN LOVE OF WAR
ALL’S NOT FAIR IN LOVE OF WAR. This took courage. If only there were more Americans like Eric Fair. I hope his nightmares from Iraq, and ours, end soon. —Tom Schaller
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SISTERS ARE DOING IT FOR THEMSELVES
SISTERS ARE DOING IT FOR THEMSELVES. Barack Obama is black; Hillary Clinton is a woman. So how do African-American women see the Obama-Clinton matchup? That�s the question I ask in the first installment of my new column for the Baltimore Sun, which begins today and will run every Wednesday. FWIW, I agree with Matt that […]
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NO MARRIAGE WITHOUT PROCREATION!
NO MARRIAGE WITHOUT PROCREATION! A group of (pro-)gay-marriage activists are pushing a ballot measure in Washington that would only grant marriage licenses to hetero couples who say they are willing to have children. And if those married couples fail to pop a few out by the time three years have passed, the state would automatically […]
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LINDA HIRSHMAN RESPONDS TO MARK SCHMITT
LINDA HIRSHMAN RESPONDS TO MARK SCHMITT. The Internet is full of the eponymous blogs of academics with apparently nothing else to do. So I did not pay much attention, when conservative diva Ann Althouse (“Ms. Althouse Is Divine,” —Terry Teachout) criticized my Washington Post article, “You�ve Come a Long Way, Maybe.” “Maybe” reports the extensive […]
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�COOK�ING THE BOOKS
�COOK�ING THE BOOKS. I have gobs of respect for Charlie Cook, one of this nation�s best electoral analysts and an incorruptibly decent, always-accessible person. So it almost pains me to disagree with his recent column for the National Journal, in which he sees the electoral map loosening up in 2012 2008 [sorry for the error]. […]
