Susan Faludi

Laugh-In

On the joyful Kamala Harris and the mirthless Donald Trump

Just Journalists

All the News That’s Fit to Feel

Amy Chozick’s accounts of her time covering Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign for The New York Times seem to exalt the work of the new girl reporters, who bring their “whole selves” to the story. But is such an emphasis on the chroniclers themselves not a return to the lifestyle precincts of the old “women’s pages”?

‘Hag of Misery’

The midwife and abortionist Madame Restell is central to the story of how American women’s reproductive freedom was dismantled in the second half of the nineteenth century.