When Women Fight for Health Care: Public Seminar, July 31, 2017

We are all still breathless from last week’s near-repeal of Obamacare. As two Republican Senators, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, stood between the American public and a bill that would cut Medicare, defund Planned Parenthood, and throw the insurance industry into turmoil, keeping the consequences of the different bills straight became … More When Women Fight for Health Care: Public Seminar, July 31, 2017

When Women Sued the New York Times

Forty-five years ago today, a dozen women representing the Women’s Caucus at The New York Times began a civil rights revolution in journalism. Their July 19, 1972 confrontationwith publisher Arthur Ochs “Punch” Sulzberger and his board was, by 1974, a class action employment discrimination lawsuit, Boylan v. New York Times. In an earlier letter, the Caucus had … More When Women Sued the New York Times

Because I Have Stolen This Picture of Donald Trump From The New York Times…

…I cannot publish this blog post at my main gig, Public Seminar, where we are rightly scrupulous about not running afoul of intellectual property distinctions. Taken a month ago, the photograph illustrates an article by Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman with the headline: “Trump Grows Discontented with Attorney General Jeff Sessions” (June 5, 2017). But … More Because I Have Stolen This Picture of Donald Trump From The New York Times…

Who Knew Running Yahoo Was So Hard? Marissa Mayer Takes One for the Team

As we begin to think about writing the history of the Age of Trump, my advice is to follow the money. For example, answer this question: how do CEOs make a fortune by killing businesses and putting working and middle class people on the unemployment line? If your answer is “Sending our beautiful jobs to … More Who Knew Running Yahoo Was So Hard? Marissa Mayer Takes One for the Team

That Smug Bastard

Real New York City Conversation: I am walking up Seventh Avenue in Chelsea behind two thirty-somethings. He is telling She that he feels he is at an impasse in his professional life and that nothing seems to be going right. He: “I’m not sure what could happen that could change things for me at that … More That Smug Bastard

Fly the Angry Skies: Navigating Militarized Air Travel

“if you don’t shut up,” the male Transportation Security Administration official said to me flatly, “I would be happy to arrange to take you somewhere else and do a more thorough search.” Yes, he was threatening me with detention and a strip search. What had I done? I hadn’t lost my temper. Not yet, at … More Fly the Angry Skies: Navigating Militarized Air Travel