On Monday afternoon at New York’s Columbia University, The New York Times and The New Yorker were awarded a shared Pulitzer Prize in Public Service for their journalistic work on stories that ended up prompting the public’s focus on what we’ve come to know as the #MeToo movement. It’s not often that you can pinpoint…
Read moreFiguring out what to gift your in-laws for the holidays is no easy feat—so imagine how hard it is when those in-laws are British royalty. What do you give the woman who literally has access to the crown jewels? Meghan Markle, however, seems to know just the thing: When she joined her fiancé Prince Harry…
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I don’t think I ever could have guessed I’d be so deeply invested in an Alabama special election, but this is 2017. So last night I settled in to watch the results in the race for Jeff Sessions’ vacated Senate seat between Democrat Doug Jones and Republican Roy Moore who has battled an onslaught of…
Read moreThe 2017 Emmy Awards was an amazing night for women—both in front of and behind the camera. Not only were a slew of female-fronted and created TV shows nominated, they actually won. Several times over. Hulu’s searing drama series The Handmaid’s Tale and HBO’s Big Little Lies especially emerged as the powerhouses of the evening,…
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Just a few days after the U.S. Open’s all-American semifinals—no, really, all four women who made the cut were American—Sloane Stephens has won the championship at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, Queens. For Stephens, the victory was undoubtedly an incredible comeback: she was ranked at 957th in women’s tennis just…
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