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America Could Soon Face a Wave of Single Moms Being Evicted, Time, May 28, 2021.
Unexpectedly Pregnant, A Memoirist Finds Her Choices Limited, The New York Times, November 10, 2020.
Lost In the System, New York Magazine, July 30, 2020.
New York City’s Block-To-Block Inequality Is As Stark As Ever, Literary Hub, June 24, 2020.
A New Mother’s Search for Home, The New York Times, April 30, 2020.
No Shelter, The Paris Review, April 30, 2020.
COVID-19's Body Count Will Go Beyond Those Who Die From the Disease. It Didn't Have to Be This Way, Time, April 28, 2020.
How the CARES Act Hurts Low-Wage Workers, Dame, April 2, 2020.
Will Students Sleep on the Streets?The Hill, March 17, 2020.
I Wanted Joan Didion’s Heart to be Messy. Dame, February 25, 2020.
Susan Collins Delivered 2018’s Most Shameful Hijacking of Feminism, HuffPost Opinion, December 24, 2018.
To Solve America's Sexism, Make Workplaces More Like Iceland's, HuffPost Opinion, September 2, 2018 .
The Improbability of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, HuffPost Opinion, July 26, 2018.
Brett Kavanaugh Will Probably Give Evangelicals Exactly What They Want, HuffPost Opinion, July 12, 2018.
My Complicated Affair Reading Philip Roth, HuffPost Opinion, May 23, 2018.
The Problem With Your Daughter's Girl Power T-Shirt, HuffPost Opinion, May 17, 2018.
'Exile In Guyville' Decodes Feminism's Generational Divide, HuffPost Opinion, May 3, 2018.
The U.S. Made Life Hell For Iraqi Women. Trump Will Make It Worse, HuffPost Opinion, April 26, 2018.
This Patriot’s Day, It Was Women Waging Revolutionary War, HuffPost Opinion, April 19, 2018.
‘Different But Equal’ Feminism Isn’t Closing The Pay Gap, HuffPost Opinion, April 12, 2018.
Trauma Can Make A Social Movement. It Can Also Break One, HuffPost Opinion, April 5, 2018.
American Foreign Policy Has A Masculinity Problem, HuffPost Opinion, March 15, 2018.
No, Millennial Women Are Not 'Failing' At Fertility, HuffPost Opinion, March 8, 2018.
Monica, It's OK That You Wanted It, HuffPost Opinion, March 1, 2018.
Women Can't Solve Our Gun Violence Problem Alone, HuffPost Opinion, February. 22, 2018.
One Hashtag Can't Tell All Women's Stories, HuffPost Opinion, February 15, 2018.
We Need To Talk About The Economics Of Consent, HuffPost Opinion, February 7, 2018.
It Shouldn't Take A Pregnant Senator To Put Parental Leave On The Agenda, HuffPost Opinion, February 1, 2018.
You Think This Is a Backlash? You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet, HuffPost Opinion, January 24, 2018.
It’s Time To Tell A New Story About Women And Power, HuffPost Opinion, January 18, 2018.
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Paid Leave Takes a Place on Hillary Clinton’s Platform. The New Republic, April 14, 2015.
Another Reason to Join the Fight for Equal Pay. Self, April 2015.
My Lover, The Camera. A profile of Liv Ullman. Elle, November 2014.
Strutting and Fretting Offstage. New York Times, October 29, 2014.
How to Love Paid Family Leave. Bloomberg BusinessWeek, July 17, 2014.
This Father’s Day, get him what he really wants: paid paternity leave. Reuters, June 13. 2014.
Crossing a Divide, Seeking Good. New York Times, February 21, 2014.
Chinese parents can now have more than one child. Why many say they won’t. Washington Post, January 10, 2014.
Will Chelsea Clinton Run for the White House One Day? The Guardian/Observer, April 20, 2014.
The Childfree Life. Time (cover story), August 12, 2013.
An Only Child, Happy With an Only Child. The New York Times, June 12, 2013.
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Only Children: Lonely and Selfish? The New York Times, June 8, 2013.
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Why Women in Hollywood Can't Get Film Financing. Bloomberg BusinessWeek, February 21, 2013.
Zero Dark Thirty and the Problem With Lone Wolf Heroines. New York, December 18, 2012.
No Sex, Please — We’re Domestic Goddesses. New York, December 5, 2012.
Tell Me a State’s Fertility Rate, I’ll Tell You How It Voted. New York, November 19, 2012.
Women Govern Differently Than Men (They’re Better). New York, November 5, 2012.
Naomi Wolf Sparks Another Debate (On Sex, of Course). The New York Times, September 19, 2012.
The Mother Majority. Slate, October 17, 2011.
Cohabitation is Only a Problem because it’s Not Normal Yet. Slate, April 17, 2011.
The American Nightmare. Psychology Today, March, 2011.
The Only Child. Time (cover story), July 8, 2010.
The Mother of All Office Dramas. Bloomberg BusinessWeek, May 17, 2010.
Code Pink. Mother Jones, September 2009.
The Atheist Recruiting Machine. The Daily Beast, November 3, 2009.
Lost Faith in the GOP. Salon, November 10, 2006.
After the Fall. Salon, November 7, 2006.
Equality Before God. Salon, November 3, 2006.
Dude, Where's My Cross? Salon, October 9, 2006.
The Thieves of Baghdad. TheAtlantic, November 2004.
An American and Her Nine Iraqi Sisters. The New York Times, October 17, 2004.
When Love is a Crime. TheNewYorkTimes, October 4, 2004.
A Movie Beauty’s Got to Look Beastly. TheLosAngelesTimes, March 2, 2004
Far from the Hamra Hotel. TheVillageVoice, June 1, 2004.
Women Under Siege. The Nation (cover story), December 2003.
Veiled and Worried in Baghdad. TheNewYorkTimes, September 16, 2003.
Holy Rock ’n’ Rollers. TheNation, July/August 2003.
Society Page. The New Republic, September 23, 2002.
Hearts Broken, Hands Full. Salon, December 6, 2001.
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Now More than Ever. Salon, September 14, 2001.
Throbbing Hearts and Thumping Bibles. Salon, July 12, 2001.
God Save the Teens. The Village Voice, May 29, 2001.