May 2009
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WatchSlate’s Meghan O’Rourke, Hannah Rosin, and of course the Gabfest’s own Emily Bazelon launch their terrific XXfactor blog into its own women’s magazine today, DoubleX.
Shipping off for graduate school in New York means that I keep new company, which in turn has made me more aware of my particular biases as an advocate – I’m no longer passionate about feminism and feminist theory...
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“Let me tell you just a little something about the American Indian in our land....”
– Ronald Reagan on “humoring” Native peoples, at Moscow State University in 1988.
“Among jurists with whom I have served, Justice David H. Souter is the very...”
– Ruth Bader Ginsburg, on Justice Souter’s just-announced retirement. Click through for statements from the rest of the bench, they’re revealing and all a kind of poignant.
Camped out as far as he was to the left, I never realized what I brilliant mind Souter is; I hope we all get some...