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The Body Politic
the body politic
Nov. 17, 2023
Abortion Wins Again. Now What? Democrats can’t coast on the issue’s popularity.
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
Sept. 22, 2023
The Return of the Marriage Plot Why everyone is suddenly so eager for men and women to get hitched.
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
May 8, 2023
What If E. Jean Carroll Doesn’t Win? The rise and fall and rise of the Me Too movement.
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
Apr. 6, 2023
The Dangerous Fantasy of Trump’s Indictment Why the circus surrounding his arrest may do more harm than good.
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
Mar. 27, 2023
Abortion Wins Elections The fight to make reproductive rights the centerpiece of the Democratic Party’s 2024 agenda.
By Rebecca Traister
Stacey Abrams’s Last Stand The Democratic candidate for governor in Georgia talks about protecting abortion, preserving the franchise, and making history.
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
Oct. 10, 2022
The Vulnerability of John Fetterman Inside this year’s highest-stakes Senate race.
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
July 12, 2022
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
June 30, 2022
The Abortion Stories We Didn’t Tell How decades of silence left us unprepared for the post-Roe fight.
By Rebecca Traister
life after roe
June 24, 2022
The Necessity of Hope Things are bad. They will get worse. But despair has never been an option.
By Rebecca Traister
life after roe
May 7, 2022
The Limits of Privilege in a Post-Roe World The new abortion regime is going to affect everyone
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
May 4, 2022
Democratic Leaders Are Getting the Abortion Story Wrong — Again With Roe at death’s door, will the party finally change its tune?
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
Apr. 9, 2022
The Red State–Blue State Scramble to Replace Roe Republicans are ready for the end of legal abortion. Are Democrats?
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
Dec. 2, 2021
The Betrayal of Roe Decades of neglect and cowardice have brought this country to the precipice.
By Rebecca Traister
Katie Couric Is Not for Everyone After her long career as America’s beloved morning-news anchor, she has decided to write a wild, unflinching memoir focused on the messy parts. Why?
By Rebecca Traister
Anita Hill Wants More Than an Apology Thirty years after her groundbreaking testimony to Congress, Hill says gender violence is a public crisis.
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
July 5, 2021
Biden’s Big Left Gamble The president is overseeing a sea change in the world of economic policy, and so much hangs in the balance.
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
Apr. 30, 2021
Life As a Man When Valentina Rice wrote a letter to Blake Bailey’s publisher alleging that he had raped her, they forwarded the message right to him.
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
Apr. 16, 2021
Mazie Hirono Isn’t Afraid of Conflict A long talk about anger with the gloriously foulmouthed senator from Hawaii.
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
Jan. 22, 2021
America Is Back, Indeed With Biden, we’ve restored our country’s favorite tradition: basic, middling, white patriarchy.
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
Jan. 14, 2021
They’ve Been Calling for Bloodshed the Whole Time It’s not just Trump — some on the right have supported violence for years now; the party has built its power on them.
By Rebecca Traister
capitol insurrection
Jan. 8, 2021
‘It Was No Accident’ Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal on surviving the siege.
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
Jan. 7, 2021
The Only Strategy Left for Democrats After this week, the mandate is clear: Make people’s lives better. And stop trying to placate Republicans.
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
Nov. 19, 2020
Stacey Abrams On Finishing the Job In Georgia “It can be undone just as quickly and as effectively as we did it.”
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
Nov. 13, 2020
America’s ‘Daughters’ Grow Up To Be Women It Can’t Handle Defiant young girls have become a political symbol in a country that fears grown women.
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
Sept. 19, 2020
It Shouldn’t Have Come Down to Her Some will try to blame Ruth Bader Ginsburg for not stepping down sooner. They are missing the point.
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
Sept. 16, 2020
Trump Is Dying to Run Against a ‘Nasty Woman’ Again And he’s not wasting any time getting right down to it.
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
Aug. 17, 2020
Sixty Seconds to Self-Sabotage The DNC’s choice of who to feature speaks volumes about the party’s inability to see its own future.
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
Aug. 6, 2020
Biden’s Fantasy of Female Submission The Democrats have completely botched this VP pick.
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
July 24, 2020
The Poison of Male Incivility When a woman dares respond to it, she’s seen as “disruptive.”
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
June 12, 2020
Racism Doesn’t Blink The public performance of white supremacy is key to upholding it.
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
June 5, 2020
‘We’ve Seen Our City Set Ablaze’ Ilhan Omar on the fight against structural racism and injustice, and how the Congressional Black Caucus can move us forward.
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
June 3, 2020
Don’t Call It Rioting Maxine Waters on the history of protest and the language of insurrection.
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
Apr. 11, 2020
By Devon Ivie
the body politic
Feb. 26, 2020
‘You Believe He’s Lying?’ How the latest debate captured Americans’ exhausting tendency to mistrust women.
By Rebecca Traister
The Immoderate Susan Collins After a long career voting across the aisle, why did the Maine senator gamble her legacy on Trump?
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
Jan. 14, 2020
The Third Rail of Calling ‘Sexism’ Warren tried not to talk about it.
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
Dec. 11, 2019
Can You Spot the Fake? Hint: Look at the pundits.
By Rebecca Traister
terrible bosses
Nov. 21, 2019
Why Do We Lionize Bad Bosses? In this climate of reassessment, what of the legendarily awful boss?
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
Nov. 15, 2019
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
Oct. 24, 2019
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
Oct. 11, 2019
Ronan Farrow Depicts a Chilling Cover-up at NBC The same people who let abuses happen are still running the show.
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
Sept. 30, 2019
The Toll of Me Too Assessing the costs for those who came forward.
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
Sept. 12, 2019
How I Learned to (Try to) Stop Asking Female Candidates About Sexism There’s still no good way to talk about the experience of having had bias, prejudice, and discrimination work against you.
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
Aug. 6, 2019
Talking Teaching With Elizabeth Warren, the Most Professorial Candidate Ever She has been instructing students since she was 8 years old. But does America want to be taught?
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
July 3, 2019
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
June 27, 2019
Why Are the Democrats’ Bad Men Refusing to Step Down? They’ve learned all the wrong lessons from Republicans.
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
May 23, 2019
Breaking: Nobody Knows What’s Going to Happen in 2020 We’ve never had candidates like this before, and anyone who tells you they know what’s happening just doesn’t.
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
May 17, 2019
By Rebecca Traister
the body politic
Apr. 14, 2019
Mom vs. Dad on the Road to 2020 The cruel double standard at the heart of American politics.
By Rebecca Traister
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