Jill Filipovic

2 weeks ago | slate.com | Jill Filipovic

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The news that former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer was a stunning disclosure. First, because of its obvious tragedy—the Bidens have achieved much but suffered more, and their patriarch’s having such a serious illness is devastating.

2 weeks ago | jill.substack.com | Jill Filipovic

In 1990, Terri Schiavo of Florida had a heart attack that left her in a permanent vegetative state. She was on life support, and her husband wanted to take her off of the machines, arguing that she would not have wanted to live in that condition. Her parents disagreed. They all wound up in an ugly public court battle, and a heartbreaking, complex, and ultimately private family matter became a politicized spectacle.

2 weeks ago | newstatesman.com | Jill Filipovic

Of all the huddled masses of tired and poor people in the world yearning to breathe free, Donald Trump has rejected the most in need of welcome. Brave Afghans who risked their lives to aid the US against the Taliban and were given refuge in America? Trump ended their protected status, and is now planning to deport thousands of them.

3 weeks ago | jill.substack.com | Jill Filipovic

The various crises facing men and boys can be challenging ones for feminists to navigate. After all, ever since women began fighting for even the most basic of rights for women and girls, (mostly) conservatives have asserted that men and boys have bigger problems. This is very plainly not true. Men still run just about everything. For more than 200 years, the United States has seen an unbroken line of male rule. Men hold the overwhelming majority of the top jobs in business, finance, tech, and law.

3 weeks ago | msmagazine.com | Jill Filipovic

This story originally appeared on Jill.substack.com, a newsletter from journalist, lawyer and author Jill Filipovic. This week, Afrikaner “refugees” began arriving in the U.S.—some of the only refugees welcomed by the Trump administration. These white South Africans claim they are being persecuted at home: that white farmers are being attacked; that South Africa is not a safe place for them to live.