Rights and Democracy
Why We Still Need Feminism
From his campaign rhetoric to his transition appointments, our next president has placed himself squarely in a conservative movement calling itself the "alt-right." That movement, the Los Angeles Times reports, "generally embraces and promotes white nationalism,...
Fakery Is Reality for Our Next President
All hail Augusts Trumpus — the American Putin, whom none can criticize! All hail the All Knowing One, who reveals "realities" that aren't there and finds "facts" that mere mortals can't detect. Once again, the Amazing Donald has demonstrated his phantasmagoric power...
Crocodile Tears
Get an IUD While You Can
As soon as the presidential election results were announced, alarm bells went off for anyone who cares about reproductive rights. Lawmakers around the country have been moving for years to restrict abortion rights. But for millions of women who've taken proactive...
Self-Defense for Whom?
In every state in the country, the right to self-defense is considered a mitigating factor in criminal prosecutions. If you use violence to defend yourself in an extreme situation, most Americans believe, the law should treat you gently. But not everyone gets to enjoy...
What Trump Could Learn from Alexander Hamilton
By now you've probably heard that Vice President-elect Mike Pence was booed by fellow theater-goers at a performance of the musical Hamilton, an unlikely hip-hop sensation that tells the story of Alexander Hamilton and other founding fathers. Then, at the end of the...
Tyrants of the World, Unite!
This Doesn’t Sound Like Our Voice
We’re already starting to see how America's gamble on Donald Trump will pay off: with gifts to the corporations and billionaires he swore he’d put us above. One of Trump's first priorities is to repeal one of the only federal laws standing between us and Wall Street....
Sorry, I Can’t Give Trump a Chance
As Donald Trump plans his transition into the White House, some have called for "unity." Let's "come together," they say. Let's "give him a chance." I say no. When a man abuses his wife, you don't tell her to give him a chance. You don't tell her to try to talk things...
This Election Wasn’t About Trump
When a political puck named Dick Tuck lost a California senate election in 1966, he famously conceded: "The people have spoken. The bastards." So now that the people have spoken up for Donald Trump, were they saying that they embrace his xenophobic, nativist,...
