Jennifer Weiss-Wolf

1 week ago | contrarian.substack.com | Jennifer Weiss-Wolf

Last week when I featured the collection of Hands Off! protest signs created by award-winning graphic designer Bonnie Siegler, Contrarians clamored to get their hands ON the artwork. Ask, and you shall receive! Siegler has added even more images to the mix—Have you NO SHAME, Pam Bondi? Have you NO SUIT, JD Vance?—and generously made them available to you for free right here. Just click on the images below to download the PDF version and print in whatever size works for you.

1 week ago | contrarian.substack.com | Jennifer Weiss-Wolf

With so much ink spilled about the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act—the Republican-sponsored bill that passed the House last week and is now on to the Senate—Contrarian readers have requested a deep dive about one aspect that has gone viral: how it would affect women. I checked in with Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), to get the details on the SAVE Act and why it is presented as such bad news for democracy.

1 week ago | msmagazine.com | Jennifer Weiss-Wolf

Originally published in the Substack The Contrarian on April 9, 2025. “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” The iconic query—best known for the public takedown of U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy and his fearmongering campaign and persecution of Americans with supposed ties to communism and other “transgressions”—is making a comeback. With renewed relevance and urgency, U.S. Rep. Bill Keating (D-Mass.) invoked the line a few weeks ago as a rebuke of fellow House member U.S. Rep.

2 weeks ago | contrarian.substack.com | Jennifer Weiss-Wolf

“Have you no sense of decency, sir?” The iconic query—best known for the public takedown of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy and his fearmongering campaign and persecution of Americans with supposed ties to communism and other “transgressions”—is making a comeback. With renewed relevance and urgency, U.S. Rep. Bill Keating invoked the line a few weeks ago as a rebuke of fellow House member U.S. Rep.

3 weeks ago | contrarian.substack.com | Jennifer Weiss-Wolf

When I started this column two months ago, I wondered if there would be enough fodder to cover on a weekly basis. As if. Flagging the myriad ways gender rears its head—as both a warning signal of democratic decline and real-time target of authoritarian impulses—is pretty much a full-time gig.