Gender and Sexuality

Your Ex Sucks, but Capitalism Sucks More

Your Ex Sucks, but Capitalism Sucks More Your Ex Sucks, but Capitalism Sucks More

Another reader asks about her trash-talking 10-year-old son.

Dec 7, 2018 / Liza Featherstone

Give Your Heart Out!

Give Your Heart Out! Give Your Heart Out!

A list of 10 charitable organizations to help out this holiday season.

Dec 7, 2018 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Brooklyn College

After 2 Brooklyn College Professors Spouted Hate, Students Want Restitution After 2 Brooklyn College Professors Spouted Hate, Students Want Restitution

Students pointed to a wider campus culture unfriendly to Latin American students and survivors of sexual assault.

Dec 6, 2018 / StudentNation / Skanda Kadirgamar

Heading a Hoops Conference in the Era of Big Football

Heading a Hoops Conference in the Era of Big Football Heading a Hoops Conference in the Era of Big Football

WCC commissioner Gloria Nevarez joins the show to talk aspirations and challenges of leading a non-power 5 conference.

Dec 4, 2018 / Podcast / Dave Zirin

Tarana Burke

Tarana Burke Talks About How to Support Survivors—When They’re Your Kids Tarana Burke Talks About How to Support Survivors—When They’re Your Kids

The founder of the #MeToo movement has guidance for how parents can make their children feel safe talking about sexual assault and trauma.

Dec 4, 2018 / Dani McClain

Beto O'Rourke supporters

What to Say to White People What to Say to White People

If Democrats need lessons on maximizing votes across the demographic divide, 2018 provides some clear examples of what to do—and what not to.

Nov 27, 2018 / Steve Phillips

Kyla Schuller

The Trouble With White Women: An Interview With Kyla Schuller The Trouble With White Women: An Interview With Kyla Schuller

The author and academic explains the racist history that haunts our politics.

Nov 26, 2018 / Q&A / Nawal Arjini

Ivanka Trump speech

You Can’t Get Conservative White Women To Change Their Minds You Can’t Get Conservative White Women To Change Their Minds

The great electoral opportunity of 2020 is not in converting Trump voters. It’s motivating the large numbers of Americans who don’t vote at all.

Nov 22, 2018 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Saint Spyridon the New Church in Bucharest

How the ‘Natural Family’ Movement Brought Its War of Values to the Balkans How the ‘Natural Family’ Movement Brought Its War of Values to the Balkans

Populist leaders with an increasingly autocratic bent are finding that it pays to jump on this ultraconservative bandwagon.

Nov 21, 2018 / Claudia Ciobanu

Sheryl Sandberg

‘Lean In’ Has Been Discredited For Good ‘Lean In’ Has Been Discredited For Good

To defend Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg put capitalism before feminism—and democracy.

Nov 20, 2018 / Mari Uyehara

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