In the debate between Ross Douthat and Will Saletan about reducing the number of abortions, Tim correctly points out that Saletan isn’t proposing a new way of talking to the public about contraception. He’s asking people who oppose abortion rights to get on board with spreading a pro-contraception message. It’s frustrating to watch Saletan repeatedly […]
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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JOHN MCCAIN TWITTER FAIL.
Gawker caught this on John McCain’s Twitter feed: Well, John, during the campaign you certainly had a few ideas about beaver management… –Ann Friedman
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Broad Rights
Obama will be forced to decide whether reproductive health care is an essential service or merely a political chess piece.
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GENDER IMPLICATIONS OF THE RECESSION.
It’s been fascinating to watch the media coverage of the economic meltdown as it relates gender (and class) in our society. In January, data showed that men’s participation in the workforce was declining faster than women’s. Basically, in recessions, more men tend to lose their jobs than women, hence there is a greater percentage of […]
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STIMULATE THE ECONOMY BY MENDING OUR SAFETY NETS.
Lots of talk this week about the proposed stimulus. One high priority ought to be the most vulnerable members of our society. The safety net created in the 1930s to protect Americans from extreme poverty is in tatters. Now that we’re in the worst downturn since the Depression, that safety net needs mending. This should […]
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HELP OUT TAP DURING THE HOLIDAYS.
In my role as deputy editor at the Prospect, I have the privilege of working with and editing some of the most promising up-and-coming young journalists in the business, as well as some of the most accomplished writers on the left and in journalism. Having gotten my start in journalism at newspapers, where there is […]
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Don’t Call it a Culture War
We will continue to lose battles like Prop. 8 until we can successfully relabel LGBT rights a civil-rights issue, rather than an issue mired in the culture-war swamp of moral controversy.
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I CAN HAZ PRIVILEGE?
I’m breaking out my P-Mate, because Jonathan Chait and I are engaged in a little pissing match about identity politics. He argued that, in the early days of Bill Clinton‘s presidency, “the primary mistake was to allow social issues to dominate the agenda” — namely, gays in the military and appointing a cabinet that “looked […]
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The Identity Blame Game
It’s Cabinet speculation time, and the valiant defenders of the place of white men in the Democratic Party are worried, once again, that women, people of color, and gay folks will screw it all up for them.
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ON RECRUITING RAPE SURVIVORS FOR CAMPAIGN ADS.
Jonathan Martin reports that the Obama campaign was looking to recruit a rape survivor to appear in an ad. Kiersten Steward, director of public policy at the Family Violence Prevention Fund, served as a conduit between the campaign and victims and women’s advocates. “Obviously, this is a big ask and I haven’t seen a script […]
