“I love to take bites out of the very confrontational nature of Payton and the over-confidence and the sort of lack of empathy and lack of regard for anyone else’s motives and feelings, because I’m very much not like that,” Platt tells Glamour about his character, who, at one point in the pilot, literally ponders…
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Earlier this month, legislators in Maine voted on a bill amendment that would guarantee incarcerated people access to menstrual products. It’s a good idea: While a federal law ensures that federal prisons offer free pads and tampons, that’s not the case at state and local facilities, where supplies are often limited and women are forced…
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If you want to ask Senator Kamala Harris whether she’s planning to run for president, keep in mind her favorite Cardi B track: “Be Careful.” The California Democrat will answer with polite exasperation because to discuss the race with her now, she believes, implies that political ambition motivates her work in the Senate. Instead it’s…
Read moreA right-wing politician in Australia is being condemned for wearing a burqa in the country’s Senate chamber as part of an anti-Islam stunt. Pauline Hanson, the leader of the One Nation party, wore the garment to the Senate on Thursday to call attention to her proposed ban on wearing burqas. The move immediately drew sharp…
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