Overnight, Carolines had national attention. Hirsch started booking more then-unknown talent, like Seinfeld, Sandra Bernhard, and Billy Crystal. She found other ways to bring people in, too, convincing editors at The Daily News and The New York Post to come write about this burgeoning comedy scene. Business was booming; within a few years, the club…
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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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When many women get ready to go for a run, their prep looks something like this: put on favorite running shorts, lace up shoes, pick a playlist, grab a weapon, head out the door. You read that right. Headlines about women being attacked by men (or even animals) while out for jog are a steady…
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When I first heard two years ago that Beto O’Rourke, a relatively unknown Texas congressman from El Paso without any flashy national legislative wins, was running against swamp monster Ted Cruz for the latter’s Texas Senate seat, I had a similar reaction to a lot of people: Go for it, dude. Why not? And like…
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Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren had a little surprise for the audience at a town hall meeting in her state on Saturday: She made her first public announcement that she was considering running. “After November 6, I will take a hard look at running for president,” Warren, a Democrat, told the crowd, according to CBS. Previously,…
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We meet 12 months into her gubernatorial bid, but Gwen Graham has not tired of the political rigmarole. Graham proffers a firm handshake. She peppers me with questions—and listens with such attention to the answers that I feel like she’s prepared to be quizzed. In a deep blue pantsuit, with her warm attitude, she exudes…
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