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  • Oh, Bridget


    From Nina Shen Rastogi, who is having technical difficulties: Until now, the McCain family has kept their youngest child, Bridget, out of the public spotlight—in part because she's young (but not younger than Bristol Palin, we might note) and in part Read More...
  • The Rain in Spain ...


    A guest post from XX reader, Nicole Beckton: In thinking about Sarah Palin's first big national evening, I realized that one of the "benefits" of McCain's pick is his total control of—if not her image, that's now impossible—her policies, her ideas, all Read More...
  • Palin and Cable TV


    Slate 's Jim Ledbetter sends in the following guest post: The irony struck me while watching cable television from my Denver hotel room on Friday morning: A kind of token feminism had finally hit the Republican Party, and was immediately being questioned Read More...
  • The Palin Paradox


    The news that Sarah Palin's 17-year-old daughter is pregnant has me thinking about the nuttily mixed messages that Palin's selection (and the media presentation thereof) sends out to women. It's a cornucopia of paradox: Her candidacy is somehow supposed Read More...
  • The misogyny gap


    Something that keeps running through my mind as the blogs light up with posts about whether Sarah Palin is a serious candidate or presidential arm candy: What would Chris Matthews and Rush Limbaugh be saying about Palin had she been Obama’s veep choice Read More...
  • McCain's Blindness on Equal Pay


    I want to say amen to your excellent post about McCain and equal pay, Emily. The only thing I'd add is this: I found McCain's comments about the bill particularly dismaying because he invoked an old canard—that women are less qualified than their male Read More...
  • Mmmmmm, Moderately Crazy??


    OK, Anne , I’ll go there with you. But only because you called me an old-timer. I don’t dispute for a moment that John McCain is a true maverick. But—and I can’t say it better than Matt Taibbi did—McCain’s “arrogant refusal to be a craven imbecile” is Read More...
  • Depends on How "Moderate" Your Definition of "Moderate" Is


    Greetings to all newcomers (including the ones I failed to greet months ago!) ... but I'd like to pick a tiny bone with an old-timer. I dunno, Dahlia , maybe if you are located somewhere out beyond Dennis Kucinich then John McCain doesn't look like a Read More...
  • The Audacity of Hopelessness, Part 2


    Dahlia , your post about McCain's powerful message of hopelessness cracked me up and reminded me of this great spoof of Obama's "Yes We Can" video: You might call it McCain's "No, We Can't." Check out the actors' expressions toward the end. That said, Read More...
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