Gloria Steinem’s surprising and impossibly beautiful last book has lessons for us all.
Clara Bingham
Clara Bingham is a journalist, author, former Newsweek White House correspondent, and Washington Monthly advisory board member. Her latest book is The Movement: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America 1963–1973.
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It’s Time for Our Own Gloria Days
Gloria Steinem, the feminist icon, author, activist, and organizer, is dead at 92, leaving those of us in the women’s rights movement mournful—and determined.
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Who Killed Roe v. Wade?
The decades-long plot against abortion rights had many fathers, who were largely lost to history until now.
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Grunge Grrrls
The year 1992 will always stand out in my mind as the “Year of the Woman.” At the time, I was a reporter at Newsweek based in Washington, D.C., covering the presidential election, and politics was my world. It was the election that followed the cataclysmic Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas Supreme Court hearings, in which Hill, […]
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Queens of the Hill
Nancy Pelosi, who has served as San Franciscos Democratic congresswoman since 1987, has become the most powerful woman in elective office in American history. As Speaker of the House, the 66-year-old mother of five and grandmother of six will be third in line to the presidency. But despite the obvious newsworthiness of Pelosis ascent, it […]
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Home Alone
Plenty, says Karen Houppert, a Village Voice writer who spent two years interviewing a group of wives living at cold, windswept Fort Drum army base in upstate New York, as well as wives at other bases around the country. Her reporting reaches from the last days of the war in Afghanistan into the first year […]
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Under Mined
The gooey mixture of black water and coal tailings traveled downstream through Coldwater and Wolf creeks, and later through the river’s main stem, Tug Fork. Ten days later, an inky plume appeared in the Ohio River. On its 75-mile path of destruction, the sludge obliterated wildlife, killed 1.6 million fish, ransacked property, washed away roads […]
