Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Last Tuesday, March 15, Omniwomen, Omnicom’s leading women’s network, hosted an historic panel discussion on the topic of women’s leadership and its importance to doing business in the 21st century. When the panelists were announced, I, and many members of the Omniwomen Governing Body, received quite a few emails questioning our casting of this panel….
Not long ago I sat with my husband and previewed several episodes of “Underground,” a new drama that premiered last week on WGN America. As the end credits rolled on Episode 2, which airs tonight at 10 p.m. on the cable channel, I asked him whether this is a series he’d willingly watch. He considered the…
South Dakotans narrowly missed the detonation of a precedent-setting bomb on Super Tuesday when Gov. Dennis Daugaard vetoed a bill that would have been devastating for the transgender community. HB 1008, which was designed to “restrict access to certain restrooms and locker rooms in public schools,” would have required that students use bathrooms and locker…
Thank you, Donald Trump. Unwittingly, you’ve done something important. You’ve exposed AIPAC’s indifference to the well being of the country in which it thrives. My country. The United States. Once upon a time, the leaders of American Zionism divided their time. They struggled to establish, defend and improve the State of Israel because of…
WASHINGTON — Sister Agnes Marie, 74, stood outside the Supreme Court Wednesday morning in a sea of protesters holding up signs about birth control and explained why she had come 600 miles to show her opposition to it. “I’ve never done anything like this before,” said the Franciscan nun, who had just taken a bus…
Paul Rudd in Marvel’s “Ant-Man.” (Zade Rosenthal/Marvel/Walt Disney handout) Another industry is warning Georgia’s governor not to sign a religious-liberty bill into law — the latest to suggest that the state risks losing business over the measure. Actors, writers, producers, directors, movie studios and whole entertainment companies have weighed in on the debate, many calling the bill discriminatory…
Gotta take my lumps on this. TPM Reader SM was flagging the North Carolina anti-LGBT bill to us all day yesterday via email, and I was too busy on other things to give it a close look. So let me yield the floor to SM: Not to beat a dead horse here (kinda surprised there’s been no TPM coverage of…
Donald Trump and Ivana Trump, in Beverly Hills, California, 1989.Ron Galella/WireImage Donald Trump holds one core belief. It’s not limited government. He favored a state takeover of health care before he was against it. Nor is it economic populism. Despite many years of arguing the necessity of taxing the rich, he now wants to…
White men making laws about bathrooms. On Wednesday evening, the North Carolina legislature passed a bill overturning every local LGBT anti-discrimination measure in the state and requiring that individuals use the restroom of the biological sex on their birth certificate. The bill, which was written in response to an anti-discrimination measure in Charlotte, was introduced…
Download a PDF of this report. Why investigate ‘trigger warnings’? Waves of media attention tell us that college students are demanding that professors provide so-called ‘trigger warnings’ to flag material that might cause distress or discomfort, or possibly trigger a panic attack in students with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). As a cover story in The…