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My Daughter’s Math Homework Has Been Our Pandemic Lifeline
It turns out schoolwork is the pandemic parenting hack you never expected. There’s nothing quite like…
Continue ReadingNo, President Biden Is Not ‘Erasing Women’
So-called progressives are angry Biden ended a policy that allowed schools to discriminate against trans students. Just…
Continue ReadingThe Absurd Outrage Over Biden’s All-Female Press Team
The same people mad about the gender breakdown didn’t seem to mind when we had all-male…
Continue ReadingWhy Women Like Men Who Wear Dresses
Vogue didn’t put Styles in a dress in order to emasculate men; they did it because…
Continue ReadingOptimism Is Dead Again
Who can be chipper with a president trying to steal an election? Well, we had one day,…
Continue ReadingIt’s Okay to Be a Sore Winner
Never let Trump supporters forget what kind of man they voted for. As Donald Trump loses the…
Continue ReadingOur New Gamergate GOP
Republicans like Madison Cawthorn and Marjorie Taylor Greene are Trumpism’s terrifying new torchbearers. Madison Cawthorn’s first public…
Continue ReadingOf Course Trump’s Hail Mary Is To Attack the Squad
When backed into a corner, the president taps his worst impulses. Donald Trump is panicking. We can…
Continue ReadingWhat Trump Supporters and NXIVM Followers Have in Common
They both follow misogynist liars whose ‘movements’ are just thinly veiled cults. As I was watching Starz’s…
Continue ReadingThe GOP Is Seizing the Feminist Moment, So Why Can’t Democrats?
There’s nothing worse than watching the left’s inaction while Republicans happily call themselves the real feminists. I’ll…
Continue ReadingPeople Need to Give Up the Illusion of Bipartisan Friendship
If someone doesn’t want to be your friend because of your political beliefs, you should take…
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