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Senator Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) has endorsed former vice president Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee for president. The announcement was made, of course, via livestream in a conversation broadcast on April 13. Like soon-to-be in-laws meeting up over FaceTime to graciously divvy up speaking rights at the rehearsal dinner, Sanders and Biden got together online…
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UPDATE: March 29, 2020, at 5:07 p.m. EST— President Donald Trump needn’t have worried; a spokesperson for Meghan Markle and Prince Harry said that the royal couple has “no plans” to ask the United States to pay for their security, according to royal correspondent Rhiannon Millshave. “A spokesperson for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex…
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Much to the disappointment of activists and those who hoped to elect the first woman president, the Democratic race has narrowed down to two white men in their seventies—former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders. But Biden made news at the latest CNN debate on March 15 with a new commitment to choose…
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Choo, whose work centers on the intersection of race and gender discrimination, says that the criticism of white feminism in elections is warranted. “When it comes to movements for women, we’ll often see the nod to diversity often happens with a token white woman, and that token white woman generally doesn’t change things fundamentally,” she…
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When a woman succeeded, we took notice. It didn’t affect how we did our jobs, but we paid attention to that and we knew it was unique. I now am close to former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who was the first woman to hold that position. But even when she was first appointed, it…
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It wasn’t a glass ceiling, but something big shattered this week in Miami: every single stupid idea we have about what it means to be “electable,” to look “presidential,” to command a room. At the first Democratic presidential debates of the 2020 presidential season, the women won. Yes, all of them. On the first night,…
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