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Let Me Make Sure I Understand: Kamala Harris Is Too Hot and Childless to Be President?

Tweet Share Share Comment Just a few days after Kamala Harris entered the race for the presidency, the conservative attacks on...

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Slate

Jill Filipovic

Opinion: How Trump Set Deadly Election Trap for Himself

It’s barely been 48 hours since Joe Biden dropped out of the race for the White House, but one thing is clear: Kamala Harris can win. The Democratic...

23.07.2024 60

The Daily Beast

Jill Filipovic

How Nancy Pelosi Persuaded Biden to Leave the Race

Tweet Share Share Comment Joe Biden’s decision to drop out of the presidential race and endorse his vice president, Kamala...

22.07.2024 3

Slate

Jill Filipovic

Trump Is Hoping J.D. Vance Will Help Him Win With One Key Demographic

Tweet Share Share Comment In choosing Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance as his running mate, presumptive Republican presidential nominee...

19.07.2024 50

Slate

Jill Filipovic

Opinion: In MAGA World, Trump Is Now the Ultimate Survivor—and Male Savior

Donald Trump has long put on the aspirational persona of strongman and savior chosen by God, a charade not unlike those performed by many...

17.07.2024 9

The Daily Beast

Jill Filipovic

Why I Support—but Fear—a Kamala Harris Candidacy

Tweet Share Share Comment Let’s just come out and say it: The prospect of the vice president replacing Joe Biden on the 2024...

09.07.2024 10

Slate

Jill Filipovic

Opinion: Joe Biden Has a Big Problem: Men

Joe Biden has 99 problems this week—and men are a big one. Any Democrat who replaces him will almost surely face similar difficulties from a group...

09.07.2024 10

The Daily Beast

Jill Filipovic

Who’s Really to Blame for the Disastrous Biden Situation?

Tweet Share Share Comment In the increasingly pitched coverage of President Joe Biden and the question of whether he has...

08.07.2024 10

Slate

Jill Filipovic

Opinion: Jill Biden’s ‘Vogue’ Cover Was Embarrassing But Ironic

Usually, a first lady looking radiant on the cover of Vogue is a PR coup for any presidential administration and a carefully-cultivated statement for...

03.07.2024 10

The Daily Beast

Jill Filipovic

Why the Kamala Harris Option Is Not So Simple

Tweet Share Share Comment Days after what may go down as one of the most disastrous presidential debates in American history,...

01.07.2024 7

Slate

Jill Filipovic

Opinion: Jill Biden Must Step Up Now to Help Oust Her Husband

Let’s start with the obvious: No one actually knows the best path forward for the Democratic Party in 2024, and all options in front of us are bad....

28.06.2024 20

The Daily Beast

Jill Filipovic

The Biggest Reason for Biden to Step Aside Now Is Not Really Even Age

Tweet Share Share Comment The Thursday evening debate between president Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump was one of...

28.06.2024 5

Slate

Jill Filipovic

Opinion: Face It, the Way Biden and Trump Look Matters to Voters

Jill Filipovic is the author of The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness . Thursday’s presidential debate will pit the two oldest-ever...

27.06.2024 9

The Daily Beast

Jill Filipovic

How Women Defined Both the Hunter Biden and Donald Trump Trials

Tweet Share Share Comment This week, Hunter Biden was convicted on highly politicized gun charges after a heartbreaking trial in...

13.06.2024 5

Slate

Jill Filipovic

How Melania Got Sucked Into Trump’s “Blame the Wife” Defense

Tweet Share Share Comment Former President Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts related to hush money payments he made...

03.06.2024 10

Slate

Jill Filipovic

Opinion: Why Ivanka and Melania Trump’s Strategic Silence Says It All

Of all of the people in Donald Trump’s inner circle, his daughter Ivanka and his wife Melania are perhaps the most fascinating. Unlike the leading...

01.06.2024 30

The Daily Beast

Jill Filipovic

How Trump’s Trial Fit Into the Trend of Truly Unbelievable Wife-Blaming

Tweet Share Share Comment Former President Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts related to hush money payments he made...

01.06.2024 40

Slate

Jill Filipovic

The Horrible Abuse Allegations Against Diddy Reveal the Legacy—and Limits—of #MeToo

Tweet Share Share Comment Seven years after the #MeToo movement swept the United States and then much of the globe, some of the...

29.05.2024 20

Slate

Jill Filipovic

The Slow But Steady Threat to Birth Control

When the U.S. Supreme Court issued its 1965 ruling in Griswold v. Connecticut and legalized the use of contraception by married women, the public...

20.05.2024 70

Time

Jill Filipovic

There’s an Insidious Legal Movement to Make Pregnant Women Second-Class Citizens

Tweet Share Share Comment Should the very state of being pregnant place women in a subclass of citizen, vulnerable to criminal prosecution or civil...

13.05.2024 40

Slate

Jill Filipovic

The Bogus Legal Theory Driving America’s Gun Violence Crisis

Tweet Share Share Comment This is part of  How Originalism Ate the Law , a Slate series about the legal theory that ruined...

08.05.2024 30

Slate

Jill Filipovic

Colleges Have Spent Decades Trying to Help Students Feel “Safe.” Recent Events Show That That’s Not Working.

Tweet Share Share Comment For the past decade or so, battles over campus “safety” have been fought on the grounds of...

03.05.2024 20

Slate

Jill Filipovic

#MeToo’s Impact Will Stay Strong—Even if Harvey Weinstein Walks Free

Harvey Weinstein, perhaps the #MeToo movement’s most notorious villain, saw his sex-crimes conviction overturned last week, after an appeals court...

27.04.2024 30

The Daily Beast

Jill Filipovic

How the Courts Are Rolling Back the Law to a Time When Women Couldn’t Vote

Tweet Share Share Comment When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, just months shy of the landmark abortion...

17.04.2024 40

Slate

Jill Filipovic

Here’s Who Should Pay for Everyone’s Ozempic

Tweet Share Share Comment It’s no exaggeration to say that Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and the other novel GPL-1 drugs are...

02.04.2024 8

Slate

Jill Filipovic

Men and Women Live on Two Totally Separate Political Planets Right Now. That’s Great News for One Party.

Tweet Share Share Comment It has long been the case that American women are generally more liberal than American men. But among...

27.03.2024 10

Slate

Jill Filipovic

Kyrsten Sinema’s Shtick Was Worn-Out and Destructive. But That’s Not Why She’s Leaving the Senate.

Tweet Share Share Comment Kyrsten Sinema, the independent U.S. senator from Arizona, has announced that she will not run for...

07.03.2024 6

Slate

Jill Filipovic

The Alabama IVF Ruling Is a Grave Warning About How Trump Would Use a Second Term

Tweet Share Share Comment This is a lightly adapted version of a piece first published on Jill Filipovic’s...

26.02.2024 30

Slate

Jill Filipovic

The Stakes Were Too High for Fani Willis to Do This

Tweet Share Share Comment Several things seem to be true at once when it comes to the scandals embroiling Fulton County District...

01.02.2024 20

Slate

Jill Filipovic

Biden’s Entire Candidacy Depends on the One Issue He Still Refuses to Talk About

Tweet Share Share Comment If Joe Biden wins a second term, his team says that his No. 1 priority will be restoring abortion...

22.01.2024 10

Slate

Jill Filipovic

Why E. Jean Carroll Is Taking Donald Trump Back to Court

Tweet Share Share Comment Donald Trump can’t seem to stay out of the courtroom. On Tuesday, Trump will again face E. Jean...

10.01.2024 10

Slate

Jill Filipovic

Why Campus Disputes Like the College Presidents’ Debacle Keep Happening

Tweet Share Share Comment The most disastrous congressional testimony of the past year was delivered, perhaps surprisingly, by...

14.12.2023 10

Slate

Jill Filipovic

Denying the Gender-Based Violence of Oct. 7 Helps No One

Advertisement Supported by Guest Essay By Jill Filipovic Ms. Filipovic is a lawyer and author who writes on gender, politics, law and global...

13.12.2023 6

The New York Times

Jill Filipovic

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