Dancing with the Stars challenges ballroom dancing’s rigid gender roles.
Monica Potts
Monica Potts is a former senior writer at The American Prospect. She is working on a book about low-income women in her rural Arkansas hometown. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, New York, Vogue.com, The Daily Beast, The Trace, and Democracy.
Posted inWorking in America
Bending the Rules
Congress keeps finding new ways to attack farm-bill reform.
Posted inWorking in America
Relief for Chicken Farmers
The USDA updates rules protecting small-livestock farmers from big business.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
The Shame of the NCAA
Penn State should not be allowed to continue playing football.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Ties That Blind
A belief in American pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps mythology lies at the heart of conservative attacks on the 99 percent.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
On Borrowed Time
President Obama’s new student loan plan isn’t enough to help students saddled with debt.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
It’s an Ad World After All
Is it legal for a company to take out Internet ads on your name after you’ve filed a complaint against it? Apparently so.
Posted inDepartments
The Commons
Zipcar and Flexcar started an economic revolution in urbanized America. But how much are we willing to share?
Posted inColumns
The Bachmann Mystique
How can a woman be an avatar for an evangelical movement that argues that women must obey men?