In Brazil, the Catholic Church objected to the abortion of a 9-year-old girl who was raped by her stepfather and became pregnant with twins. —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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THE OBJECTIFICATION OF SARAH PALIN.
A new study found that after male college students were asked to write about Sarah Palin‘s physical attributes, they judged her as less professionally competent than those asked to simply write about Palin as a “person.” If the subjects were swing voters or Republicans, thinking about Palin’s appearance actually seemed to decrease their likelihood of […]
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MERIT PAY AND UNIONS AND CHARTERS, OH MY!
On Bloggingheads, Megan McArdle and I discuss the latest news out of the D.C. teachers’ contract fight, and debate the District’s controversial private school voucher program. Apologies for my blurriness. Hopefully my opinions are a bit sharper. — —Dana Goldstein
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THE LATEST ON CIRCUMCISION AND HIV.
In 2007, the World Health Organization began to promote male circumcision as an HIV preventative, based on the results of just two studies. Some AIDS activists, who have spread the message since the 1980s that condoms are the only surefire way to protect against the virus, were irate, especially after New York City Mayor Mike […]
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OBAMA VOWS TO PASS CARD CHECK.
This is the clearest statement yet from Obama that he still plans to move relatively quickly on EFCA, which would make it easier for unions to organize workplaces. (Seating Al Franken, though, is probably a pre-requisite.) Here is what the president told the AFL-CIO executive council last night, which is meeting in Miami. Obama appeared […]
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EFCA=ISLAMOFASCISM=ARMAGEDDON?
A humorous new web video from the SEIU highlights the over-hyped rhetoric rich conservatives are using against the Employee Free Choice Act. —Dana Goldstein
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IF RIHANNA AND CHRIS BROWN GET BACK TOGETHER…
Reports are swirling that singers Rihanna and Chris Brown may be getting back together after Brown allegedly beat Rihanna to the point of hospitalization. So it’s a good time to assess how our culture perceives victims of domestic violence and assesses their decisions. Remember, first Rihanna was “blamed” for the attack by media reports suggesting […]
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THAT WAS FAST.
Seems like Michael Steele couldn’t last a full 48 hours with Rush mad at him. He has already apologized for calling the radio host “incendiary.” —Dana Goldstein
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MEET THE HIP-HOP GOP.
We love you, Max Blumenthal, reporting from CPAC: —Dana Goldstein
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WHAT HAPPENED TO THE IMMIGRATION DEBATE?
Bloomberg’s Al Hunt reports that the Obama administration remains undecided about how quickly to address immigration reform, noting that the word “immigration” was totally absent from the president’s address to Congress last week. But a story out of Utah highlights some of the social issues that are keeping immigration tensions simmering in communities across the […]
