PLAN B WORKS. Use of the morning after pill has doubled since it became available over the counter last year. It’s preventing unintended pregnancies and abortions — just what the conservatives who opposed making it more available claim they support. –Dana Goldstein
Dana Goldstein
Dana Goldstein, a former associate editor and writer at the Prospect, comes from a family of public-school educators. She received the Spencer Fellowship in Education Journalism, a Schwarz Fellowship at the New America Foundation, and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellowship at the Nation Institute. Her journalism is regularly featured in Slate, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Daily Beast, and other publications, and she is a staff writer at the Marshall Project.
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JEWS: POLAND::NATIVE AMERICANS:USA?
JEWS: POLAND::NATIVE AMERICANS:USA? In a New York Times article about the fetishization of Jewish holidays, music, and food in Poland — a nation where 10 percent of the population was Jewish prior to the Holocaust but where now only 10,000 Jews live — the founder of a Polish-Jewish magazine explains, “It’s like when you lose […]
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Dr. Yes-Man
Dr. James Holsinger doesn’t inspire confidence that, if confirmed as surgeon general, he would stand up to Bush’s ideological pressure.
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MORE GOOD NEWS…
MORE GOOD NEWS FROM THE SUN-TIMES. As J. noted earlier, the Chicago Sun-Times has made the rare decision to explicitly shift left on its editorial page. In another good move, the Sun-Times will begin publishing signed editorials, so readers know which member of the board wrote each piece. The New York Times website now provides […]
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BILL CLINTON, ACTIVIST.
BILL CLINTON, ACTIVIST. You don’t need to earn earn hundreds of thousands of dollars per speaking engagement to influence hearts and minds! You just need to read Giving: How Each Of Us Can Change The World, a new book by Clinton due in September and based on his inspirational speeches. In other Bill news, the […]
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BUSH POLITICS AND PUBLIC HEALTH.
BUSH POLITICS AND PUBLIC HEALTH. Two days before the Senate is set to hold confirmation hearings for Dr. James W. Holsinger, the anti-gay Kentucky cardiologist who’s been nominated to be surgeon general, former Surgeon General Richard Carmona told Congress the Bush administration banned him from speaking publicly about stem cell research, emergency contraception, sex ed, […]
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THE EVER EXPANDING DICTIONARY.
THE EVER EXPANDING DICTIONARY. Surely, one of the whimsical, wonderful things about the English language is its flexibility. New words Christened by Merrian-Webster this year include “ginormous” (gigantic + enormous) and “crunk” (a style of Southern rap). –Dana Goldstein
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UPDATE: POP SINGERS AND MATRIMONY.
UPDATE: POP SINGERS AND MATRIMONY. So David Brooks thinks Avril Lavigne, 22, and Pink, 28, promote an ideology hostile to marriage before the age of 30? They’re both married. —Dana Goldstein
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RETRO DAVE.
RETRO DAVE. David Brooks has a truly bizarre column today citing the lyrics of female pop stars as evidence of America’s “formless premarital life, and the anxieties it produces.” Apparently songs by Avril Lavigne, Carrie Underwood, and Pink expressing anger at cheating boyfriends and too-slick guys at bars prove that today’s “lone ranger” young women, […]
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“DIE N-WORD.”
“DIE N-WORD.” Those were the words of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who yesterday participated in an NAACP ceremonial “burial” of the racial epithet, complete with pine coffin and eulogies. Is the NAACP alienating itself from younger African Americans by excoriating a term commonly reappropriated in rap lyrics? The group’s chairman, Julian Bond, told the Associated […]
