Francis, the Roman Catholic Church’s First Latin American Pope, Leaves Behind a Complicated Legacy
As you probably know by now, Pope Francis has died. (Mere hours after meeting with—how…
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RFK Jr’s Campaign Against Seed Oils Isn’t Just Junk Science — It’s Misogynist Identity Politics
Just before the November election, future Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr…
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Women’s Liberation Front Attempts to Liberate Women’s Sports from Gender Equality
In June 2024, a group of anti-trans feminists crisscrossed the U.S. with right-wing women activists to “take…
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Amber Ruffin Wasn’t Cancelled by the WHCA Just Because She’s a Queer Black Woman Who Rejects ‘Both-Sidesing’
Comedian Amber Ruffin was literally cancelled from hosting the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner recently…
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Why Authoritarianism Needs Gender Stereotypes – and Democracy Needs Gender Justice
Two weeks before the 2024 election, Tucker Carlson, whose documentary, The End of Men, laments the…
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What the Hell? Utah Passes Anti Ritual Abuse Bill Despite Ritual Abuse Not Actually Existing
So Utah passed a bill designed to “address” ritual abuse this week. That is a…
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A Movement to Destroy U.S. Democracy Controls the Presidency, Congress, and the Supreme Court—But What’s Behind It?
The man in the MAGA cap and the “Size Matters” T-shirt allowed me to take…
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Trump’s Pick for FDA Commissioner Hedges on the Abortion Pill, which is safer than Tylenol, Viagra, or giving birth
During his confirmation hearing last Thursday, Trump nominee Dr. Marty Makary equivocated on whether Americans…
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‘Clever Girl’ Explains Why Dinosaurs are Queer and Feminist — and Jurassic Park is a Toolkit for the Apocalypse
Everything happens so much these days, and so very much of it is very bad…
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Silence of the Nuns — Oscar Darling ‘Conclave’ Contains Subtle Indictment of Catholic Church’s Views on Women
There are many pleasures for students of the Catholic Church in Conclave—which recently received eight…
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