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Sorry, Slate: The Skimm And Its Readers Are Nothing Like Ivanka Trump
My insufferable paternal grandmother once banned ketchup from her house because she thought it beneath her family (and didn’t like the taste); I believe this to be one of the many reasons my otherwise erudite father and his offspring love smothering things in this “low class” condiment. A recent Slate piece by Christina Cauterucci, just…
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Monica Lewinsky Calls Out Roger Ailes For Legacy Of ‘Gutter’ Journalism
(JTA) — Monica Lewinsky said the late Roger Ailes’ success in building Fox News was directly related to his capitalizing on the affair involving the former White House intern and then-President Bill Clinton. Ailes, the former head of Fox News forced out under the cloud of a sexual harassment scandal, died last week at 77….
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Taking It Personally: A Feminist Defense Of The First-Person Essay
Read Jia Tolentino’s May 18 anti-personal essay personal essay “The Personal Essay Boom Is Over” on The New Yorker’s website, then Google: Vivian Gornick, Roxane Gay, David Sedaris, Daphne Merkin, Leslie Jamison, Zadie Smith, Mary Karr, Gary Shteyngart, Jhumpa Lahiri, Elif Batuman or Joan Didion. Guess what you’ll find? Great recent personal essays, many in…
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Horrific Manchester Concert Attack An Attack On Girls
The story on my mind today, and on many, is the horrific terrorist attack in Manchester, England. At least 22 were killed at an Ariana Grande pop concert. One of the confirmed dead was an eight-year-old girl. It’s an attack that targeted a Western city, yes, but more specifically, a concert filled with young women…
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Ivanka’s Frum Skirt And Melania’s Hand-Dodge
The Trumps are in Israel, which is of course very reassuring to American Jews, every last one of us. Below, the highlights of the lady-news aspects of this voyage. (The menfolk are at work on the serious business of bringing “peach” to the region.) -Melania Trump and Ivanka Trump prayed at the women’s section of…
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Five Reasons to Love Rama Burshtein’s ‘The Wedding Plan’
It’s spring, and your calendar might be filling with wedding invitations. Or maybe you’re planning your own wedding, and/or discovering that you dislike weddings and the myriad pressures they can bring. Whatever you’re feeling about wedding ceremonies, or romantic love altogether, Israeli director Rama Burshtein’s poignant, funny, and beautifully heartfelt second feature, “The Wedding Plan,”…
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The Health Of The Mother
When I had my first child, I learned how to be a mother with chronic pain. The learning curve was so steep that my husband and I adjusted our expectations: instead of having two children, as we always assumed we would, this would be our only child. But after a few years, and an operation…
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The Tricky Feminist Politics Of Personal Writing
Did Trump change everything? Like personal catastrophes, the election of Donald Trump and seems as if it ought to have inspired a kind of general reprioritization among his opponents. Forget all the nonsense you used to fuss about! With all that’s happening (and it’s a lot!), the time has come – or seems as if…
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New Essays By Jewish Women On The Pain And Secrecy Of Miscarriage
Few topics are as commonplace and secret as miscarriage. The secrecy is fully understandable on an individual level, but can pose challenges of its own. Thus why, in a moving essay about her own experiences, Hadley Freeman writes that she “find[s] the idea that women aren’t supposed to talk about this – that whole ‘Don’t…
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Clinton’s Candidacy, Assessed
How did an extraordinarily well-qualified, experienced, and admired candidate — whose victory would have been as historic as Barack Obama’s — come to be seen as a tool of the establishment, a chronic liar, and a talentless politician? That’s the question Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Susan Bordo, Ph.D., asked and answered in her new book, “The…
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A Troubling Atlantic Cover Story Tells Of Modern-Day American Slavery
If you think of slavery as a thing of the past, limited to the antebellum South and the Haggadah, you’d be well advised to read Alex Tizon’s Atlantic cover story, “My Family’s Slave.” It’s the story, kind of, of Eudocia Tomas Pulido – Lola to Tizon and his relatives. But more than that, it’s the…
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