The women’s movement may have changed everything for the American public, but in the home, the revolution has hardly begun.
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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Listening to Afghanistan
The U.S. intervention has never been and won’t become a force for humanitarianism.
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What’s in a Pen Name?
I spend a lot of time talking about the general pale/male/stale-ness of the media (h/t to Tracy Van Slyke and Jessica Clark for that description), and I generally find myself chalking it up to a number of big, interrelated factors: Men are socialized to be more aggressive and confident, which translates to pitching more articles […]
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Pessimism About Women in Journalism.
Yesterday, the soon-to-be-shuttered Editor & Publisher reported that three top women newspaper editors are stepping down from their jobs. That leaves Nancy Barnes of The Star Tribune in Minneapolis and Susan Goldberg of The Plain Dealer in Cleveland as the only two women editors of the 20 highest-circulation newspapers in America. Barnes also believed the […]
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The Company We Keep
If each liberal “special interest” group is actually just in it alone, what’s the point of a common ideology?
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Yes, Even Anti-Choice Women Are Under This Bus.
Conor Friedersdorf responds to my post on the Stupak Amendment. Mr. Friedersdorf writes, a) The bigger role the federal government takes in funding health care, the more you’re going to see politicians interfering in matters that would otherwise be left to doctors and patients, and the more controversial these battles are going to become among […]
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Whose Health Care Victory?
I’m sure you’ve heard by now that the House passed a health-care reform bill last night. I got this lovely e-mail from Barack Obama telling me what a victory this is: This evening, at 11:15 p.m., the House of Representatives voted to pass their health insurance reform bill. Despite countless attempts over nearly a century, […]
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The Polanski Paradox
The epidemic of violence against women is a public scourge, but respecting survivors’ wishes must be paramount.
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Sheriff Joe Arpaio Loses His Immigration-Enforcement Status.
Great news! After years of conducting immigration raids with the imprimatur of federal authorities, it looks like Maricopa County (Arizona) Sheriff Joe Arpaio will be stripped of his ability to do so, as the Department of Homeland Security has revised his 287(g) agreement. The 287(g) provision is touted as a way of allowing local authorities […]
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The Future of Progressive Journalism.
One compelling reason for you, dear reader, to be donating or subscribing to The American Prospect is to support our writing fellows program. There is a reason this program has produced several influential progressive journalists: It’s the only entry-level job in progressive journalism in which the core responsibility is writing, not fact-checking or answering phones. […]