McDonald’s Workers Walk Out Over Sexual Harassment McDonald’s Workers Walk Out Over Sexual Harassment
“Hold the burgers, hold the fries, keep your hands off our thighs.”
Sep 18, 2018 / Rebecca Grant
Before We Even Begin to Have a Conversation About Forgiving Brett Kavanaugh Before We Even Begin to Have a Conversation About Forgiving Brett Kavanaugh
Christine Blasey Ford has come forward with highly credible allegations of sexual assault that deserve a full airing and much reflection.
Sep 17, 2018 / Katha Pollitt
Young Jean Lee’s Domestic Surrealism Young Jean Lee’s Domestic Surrealism
In her newest play, Lee offers us a look at the straight white man as a specimen.
Sep 11, 2018 / Alisa Solomon
How ‘No More Miss America’ Announced a Feminist Upheaval How ‘No More Miss America’ Announced a Feminist Upheaval
A bold and irreverent protest 50 years ago put a renewed women’s liberation movement on the public map—and offers important lessons for today’s resistance.
Sep 7, 2018 / Laura Tanenbaum and Mark Engler
Letters From the September 24-October 1, 2018, Issue Letters From the September 24-October 1, 2018, Issue
‘68 Letdown What a gigantic disappointment the special 1968 issue, “Year of Global Insurrection” [Aug. 27/Sept. 3], must be for anyone who was actually alive and aware in ‘68 and e…
Aug 30, 2018 / Our Readers
The Women of Impressionism The Women of Impressionism
Mary Cassatt, Elizabeth Nourse, Berthe Morisot, and Rosa Bonheur were as central to Impressionism’s shifting and often contradictory currents as their male counterparts.
Aug 30, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Melania Trump: Hero of the People? Melania Trump: Hero of the People?
Amy Wilentz on the first lady, plus Katha Pollitt on the politics of motherhood, and Lee Saunders on unions after Janus.
Aug 30, 2018 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
Power in the Ivory Tower Power in the Ivory Tower
What on earth is going on at NYU?
Aug 29, 2018 / Column / Katha Pollitt
The News in Motherhood: the Good, the Bad, the WTF The News in Motherhood: the Good, the Bad, the WTF
All around the world, mothers and pregnant women are undervalued, discriminated against, and punished.
Aug 20, 2018 / Katha Pollitt
Breaking France’s Race Taboo Breaking France’s Race Taboo
A new generation of activists is trying to change the way France conceives of race.
Aug 10, 2018 / Karina Piser