A Few Things to Know About Trump’s New Impeachment Lawyers
Former Baylor President Ken Starr waits to run onto the field before an NCAA college football game 2015. LM Otero/AP Ahead of the Senate impeachment trial that will move forward on January 21, President Donald Trump on Friday hired two new additions to his legal team: former Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz and Bill…
The Women’s March Has Gotten Much Smaller. That’s Partly by Design.
An estimated 100,000 people attended the Women’s March in Washington, DC, on January 19th, 2019.Jose Luis Magana/AP Three years ago, nearly half a million women and their allies descended on the nation’s capital to showcase their outrage over the election of Donald Trump and launch a new movement for women’s equality. On Saturday, fewer than…
“Boys Will Be Boys” Lets Men Like Kavanaugh and Trump Off the Hook. Let’s Let It Die.
President Donald Trump paws Brett Kavanaugh at the swearing-in of the US Supreme Court justice.Oliver Contreras/Sipa/AP Donald Trump, still the president, has been credibly accused of extortion. He has also been credibly accused of rape. He was impeached for one of these. Just let that fact detonate again in the narrative of who this escape artist…
I Would Like to Amend My Recent Remarks Calling for the Imminent Death of the Wing
Evelyn Hockstein/The Washington Post/Getty I never thought I would get to go to the Wing, the women-only co-working space and “diverse community open to all” whose demise I gleefully cheered for just a few weeks ago. I resented the place, frequented by the likes of Lena Dunham and Tavi Gevinson, because I considered its $2,350…
Chicken, Waffles, and Smashing the Patriarchy
Fried chicken and waffles is a festive dish steeped in the history of the Great Migration, the 20th century fanning out of black people from the former slave-holding states the south into cities in the north and west. The combination delighted palates at nightspots like Wells Supper Club in Harlem during that neighborhood’s famous renaissance.…
Why Picking 12 Jurors to Hear the Weinstein Trial is So Damn Hard
Harvey Weinstein, left, arrives at court with his lead attorney Donna Rotunno.Mary Altaffer/AP On Tuesday, the first day of jury selection in Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial in a lower Manhattan courtroom, Judge James Burke asked a group of 120 potential jurors if they felt that they could not remain impartial. A third raised their hands.…