Tag: Gender Issues

Louis C.K appears onstage at Comedy Central's "Night of Too Many Stars: America Comes Together for Autism Programs" at the Beacon Theatre on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2015, in New York.

Magazine - Your Land

Can’t stop the amusement

Jay Caruso · January 4, 2019 5:01 am

Women in favor of a measure to expand legal abortions, wearing red cloaks and white bonnets like the characters from the novel-turned-TV series "The Handmaid's Tale."

Magazine - Life & Arts

Handmaid’s flail

Elisha Maldonado · January 4, 2019 5:01 am

Judge gavel on Texas flag background.

Beltway Confidential

Why are we still celebrating identity politics over merit in 2019?

Nicole Russell · January 3, 2019 6:33 pm

Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn, right, talks with Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, left, durning a lunch Friday, Aug. 24, 2018, in Nashville, Tenn.

Senate Judiciary Committee to get first female GOP members

Diana Stancy Correll · January 2, 2019 11:42 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, right, accompanied by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., arrives at a rally at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., Monday, Oct. 24, 2016.

Beltway Confidential

Elizabeth Warren has a Hillary Clinton problem, not a sexism problem

Tiana Lowe Doescher · January 2, 2019 6:36 pm

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks beside her husband Bruce Mann, left, outside their home, Monday, Dec. 31, 2018, in Cambridge, Mass., where she confirmed that she is launching an exploratory committee to run for president. Warren on Monday took the first major step toward launching a widely anticipated campaign for the presidency, hoping her reputation as a populist fighter can help her navigate a Democratic field that could include nearly two dozen candidates.

Red Alert Politics

Why Elizabeth Warren will struggle with young voters

Brendan Pringle · January 2, 2019 2:13 pm

Researchers noted that the physical method of cracking a cryptographic algorithm, commonly known as a "side-channel attack," works even against even sophisticated 4,096-bit encryption keys. (AP Photo)

Red Alert Politics

You need to stop watching porn

Jeremiah Poff · January 2, 2019 5:00 am

In this Monday, April 9, 2018, file photo, actor Daniel Craig attends The Opportunity Network's 11th Annual Night of Opportunity Gala at Cipriani Wall Street in New York.

Beltway Confidential

A transgender James Bond would be an affront to the masculinity we need

Nicole Russell · December 31, 2018 7:45 pm

In Baltimore, Planned Parenthood’s Leana Wen had higher priorities than women’s well-being

Andrea Picciotti-Bayer · December 31, 2018 6:08 pm

Protesters with Women's March and others gather in front of the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Sept. 24, 2018. A second allegation of sexual misconduct has emerged against Judge Brett Kavanaugh, a development that has further imperiled his nomination to the Supreme Court, forced the White House and Senate Republicans onto the defensive and fueled calls from Democrats to postpone further action on his confirmation. President Donald Trump is so far standing by his nominee.

Beltway Confidential

The ‘Year of the Woman’ was a failure

Nicole Russell · December 31, 2018 4:52 pm

Reports on Louis C.K. and Aziz Ansari demonstrate that Hollywood finds it easy to wax indignant about the scourge of sexism, but more difficult to live by those standards. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Louis C.K. jokes about Parkland students, says they’re ‘not interesting’

Anna Giaritelli · December 31, 2018 3:23 pm

In this May 1, 2018, photo, the Rev. Franklin Graham speaks during an interview about his latest book "Through my Father's Eyes," about his father the late evangelist Billy Graham in New York. Billy Graham's oldest son, Franklin, says his new book about his father is meant to share lessons he learned from the man known as "America's Pastor."

Evangelical leader banned from Facebook for ‘hate speech’ over transgender bathrooms

Claude Thompson · December 30, 2018 6:28 pm