Enough Christmas a’ready. Bring on the disfunction….I don’t know about y’all, but I am Christmas’d out. I spent most of the last two weeks squinting at directions written in Elvin runes and talking with nice ladies in India (aka the Toys R Us help desk. My fave was the one who suggested I “ask a […]
Debra Dickerson
Debra Dickerson, a Washington Monthly editorial advisory board member, is the author most recently of The End of Blackness.
Abu Ghraib and the Feminization of the Military
So much for the feminization of the military, eh? As surprised as I was to learn that GIs were abusing prisoners, nothing floored me as much as seeing the grinning faces of women gleefully celebrating torture of the helpless (however complicit in terrorism they might be). I take pride in being an unapologetic feminist (why […]

