By Phillip Stucky President Barack Obama was just too nice to combat racism in America, according to Slate’s top reporter on race relations. Slate Chief Political Correspondent Jamelle Bouie asserts that Obama wasn’t as radical as his pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Bouie asserts that the appropriate way for Obama to combat the nation’s racism was…
By Blake Neff The New York Times is being denounced as “hateful” and sexist after its Tuesday crossword had the temerity to include the word “harem” as an answer. A harem refers to a group of females who all share a single male as a sexual or romantic partner. Historically, a harem was the retinue of wives,…
By Rachel Stoltzfoos While attempting to argue it’s “bad for women” to ban abortions on the basis of sex, pro-choice Professor Carol Sanger actually ends up explaining why it’s logically inconsistent for feminists to oppose the bans. Legislators in eight states have already banned abortions on the basis of the unborn child’s sex, and a number of other…
Blake Neff A newly-published advice column at the website Slate suggests that a woman strongly consider leaving her husband because he supports Donald Trump for president. “Dump Trump” wrote in to Slate’s Dear Prudence feature, a regular advice column currently run by Mallory Ortberg, to ask how she should handle her husband’s backing for Trump. “I…