Democrat Valerie Ervin has traveled a long road to become a candidate for governor of Maryland. If she had complied with one man’s wishes years ago, she might not have set foot on the path at all. “When I ran for the [Montgomery County] Council the first time, a very well-known African-American man, political leader,…
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If you’ve taken Fiction 101, you may be aware of the golden rule: Write what you know. CNN chief Washington correspondent Jake Tapper stuck to this idea when he wrote his debut political thriller—to an extent. The Hellfire Club is rife with Beltway intrigue and backroom deals, but Tapper’s leading lady is what kept us…
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Georgia Democrats handed Stacey Abrams a landmark win in Tuesday’s primary, propelling her to a shot at becoming America’s first black woman governor. The contest between Abrams and Stacey Evans was bound to make history no matter who won: no woman has ever been the Democratic nominee for Georgia’s top job. Right now, women run…
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Former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman resigned on Monday night after four women came forward with accounts, detailed in The New Yorker, of the physical, sexual and emotional abuse he allegedly subjected them to over the course of the last several years. The women’s accounts of Schneiderman’s actions are harrowing for their details of…
Read moreIn light of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, the Producers Guild of America announced Saturday night (January 20) that it’s implementing new guidelines to combat sexual harassment and misconduct on film and TV sets. This change is long overdue, of course, but luckily these new standards will go into effect soon: They’ll start with the…
Read moreLast weekend, I, along with more than 2,500 other women, attended a conference breaking down the importance of self actualization. The conference was led by one of those popular, female-empowerment gurus, a high-energy motivationalist who talked unironically about mastering our own destiny, building our best lives, and learning to “embrace our inner radiance.” Prior to…
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