No subject tends to confound political pundits-or national Democrats and liberals in general-quite like Southern politics. And if you don’t believe it, take a gander at the oft-cited 2006 manual for Democratic Dixie-bashing, Tom Schaller’s Whistling Past Dixie, which bizarrely recommended that the party abandon the nation’s largest and fastest-growing region (not to mention its […]
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Daily Meme: The Ugliness of Being a Woman Boss
Yesterday, the New York Times fired its executive editor, Jill Abramson, the first woman to lead the paper in its 163 years of publication. When a woman finally reaches this pinnacle-perhaps the single most important position in journalism in America, if not the world-then gets shown the door after just two and a half years, […]
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Meet the Doctor Who Went to Jail to Save North Carolina Lives
There is right, and there is wrong. And having to watch patients die because legislators refused the administration’s Medicaid expansion—that’s just wrong, says physician Charlie van der Horst.
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Rape Culture at Bob Jones University
Kathryn Joyce discusses her latest piece, “By GRACE Alone”, about sexual assault within the evangelical community, on “The Posner Show.”
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Michael Boggs, an Unacceptable Judicial Nominee
However horrible Boggs is, the primary villains here, as is so often the case, reside in the World’s Worst Deliberative Body.
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Moral Monday Movement Gears Up for Round Two
As the North Carolina state legislature reopens on May 14 with no ideological reversal in sight, the Monday takeovers of the rotunda will resume. So, likely, will the arrests.
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The Clear-Eyed Utopianism of Ellen Willis
One of her work’s most salutary effects is its reminder that to cut yourself off from utopian impulses is to die a little.
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Cannes Looks a Lot Like Hollywood: The Power Belongs to Men
At the glamorous French film festival, as at the Oscars, women directors are hard to find.
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Daily Meme: You Probably Should Check Your Privilege
Sometimes, in the wilds of the internet, all it takes to get people’s blood boiling is a screed from one college freshman. Such is the saga of Tal Fortgang, a Princeton first-year who wrote an inflammatory essay in the campus conservative magazine about being told to “check his privilege.”If you’re not familiar with the phrase […]
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The New Moral Panic Over Drug-Dependent Babies
As with the hyped-up crack-baby crisis, fears about neonatal abstinence syndrome appear to be overblown. But that won’t stop states from punishing pregnant women.
