Hormones have always been a third rail in female mental health. They may also be a skeleton key. When she was 45, at around the same time her menstrual periods became irregular, Janet developed an obsession with a man at work. Now 61, Janet has the same job she had back then, managing the chemistry-department […]
Marjorie Dannenfelser Used Donald Trump to Get Even Closer to What She Wants: No More Abortions
Marjorie Dannenfelser President: Pro-life group the Susan B. Anthony List Raised in: Greenville, North Carolina Calls Trump: “The most pro-life president we’ve ever had” Marjorie Dannenfelser cries easily, and this, she believes, is her greatest strength. She cries when she hears “American Honey,” by Lady Antebellum. She even chokes up a little when recollecting […]
Anna Wintour Sees Progress Where Glenda Jackson Sees the Same Old Garbage
Anna Wintour Job: Editor of Vogue, artistic director of Condé Nast Fund-raiser: For Hillary Clinton in 2016 Will Never Be Seen: Wearing all-black Glenda Jackson Job: Tony-winning actor Once: Was a British MP Currently: Rehearsing for King Lear on Broadway (she plays Lear) Glenda Jackson: I don’t understand that. People always say, “She’s frightening.” […]
Andrea Mitchell Cried When She Found Out How Little She Was Being Paid
Andrea Mitchell Job: Chief foreign-affairs correspondent, NBC news; anchor, Andrea Mitchell Reports Once: Was thrown out of a photo-op for trying to question media-avoiding secretary of State Rex Tillerson Andrea Mitchell was 35 when she began covering the Reagan White House for NBC News. Now, at 71, she’s still on the front lines. Women often […]
This Is Nikki Haley’s Last Interview Before Her Mysterious Resignation
In early October, I sat down to talk with U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley about her ascent for a special forthcoming issue of New York Magazine on women’s power. She’d recently returned from meeting with the president in Washington, D.C., where presumably she discussed her intentions to resign from her position less than a week later. […]
The Entitled Rage of Brett Kavanaugh
During his testimony, Kavanaugh wore his résumé as a suit of armor, as if his affiliations, his past proximity to Important People were proof of his good character — evidence in and of themselves that he could not possibly, as a blind-drunk high-school student, have shoved a 15-year-old girl into an upstairs bedroom and placed […]
Brett Kavanaugh’s Former Roommate Describes Their Debauched Dorm at Yale
In the fall of 1983, three weeks into his freshman year at Yale, Kit Winter switched dorm rooms. He had been sharing a room on the fourth floor of Lawrance Hall, entryway D, with a kid from Rhode Island named James Garman. But Garman was studious and Winter liked to stay up late, and they […]
The “Little Jerk” Once defined by his loathing for Trump, Lindsey Graham is now all-in for the president. Why?
Has a politician ever debased himself more in public than when Lindsey Graham eulogized his friend John McCain? Bleary-eyed from grief, the senior senator from South Carolina took his place at the lectern on the Senate floor and insisted on his own inferiority. He was the Great Man’s mascot, his funny little buddy — his […]
From Chaste Virgin to Accommodating Tigress in Bed
Into the midst of this national conversation on women’s truth, women’s stories, and the epochs-long, socially accepted, widely condoned subordination of women, comes Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Women and How I Broke Free, out today from Touchstone Books. And apart from its obscure, ominous-romantic cover design (a faceless woman […]
David Hogg, After Parkland
Furious and unflinching, an NRA enemy, an accused “crisis actor,” and a high-school grad trying to figure out what’s next. At 2:30 on February 14, David Hogg was not yet a spokesperson for radicalized young America or a renowned media savant or a resistance fighter or, to some, the encapsulation of everything terrifying […]