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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | June Carbone |Nancy Levit |Naomi Cahn
2 hours agoIn his speech to Congress, Trump played up unproven claims of malfeasance in green-energy funding. “$1.9 billion to recently-created decarbonization of homes committee, headed up, and we know she’s involved, just at the last moment the money was passed over, by a woman named Stacey Abrams. Have you …
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1 month ago | 
washingtonmonthly.com | June Carbone |Nancy Levit |Naomi Cahn
Watching Elon Musk take over large parts of government triggered a shock of recognition among those of us who study big business: the tactics he is applying to the executive branch are the same as those that have transformed corporate America.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
thepersistent.com | Holly Baxter |Emma Haslett |Naomi Cahn |June Carbone
U.S. Election 2024 — 10 min read In 1972, Shirley Chisholm—a Black Barbadian American woman from Brooklyn—ran for the Democratic presidential nomination. She wasn’t the first woman to run for U.S. president, but her candidacy was nonetheless extraordinary.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
thepersistent.com | Emma Haslett |Naomi Cahn |June Carbone |Nancy Levit
Much ink has been spilled about what Donald Trump is: A fascist? A puppet? A narcissist? An opportunist? Is he a hardline ideologue or a meandering megalomaniac? One of the reasons it’s so hard to pin Trump down is because he says what he thinks out loud—and what he thinks is often fleeting, and self-contradictory.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
thepersistent.com | Naomi Cahn |June Carbone |Nancy Levit |Ruchi Kumar
Persisting Through Politics — 7 min read The night she learned the U.S. Supreme Court was planning to bring down Roe v. Wade, the journalist and author Jessica Valenti went to bed and wept. “I kept saying, ‘My daughter, my daughter,” she writes. “A mother’s job is to protect her children. How could I possibly do that now?”Valenti’s grief quickly metastasized into anger. That anger materialized as a newsletter. Abortion, Every Day.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
thepersistent.com | Naomi Cahn |June Carbone |Nancy Levit |Ruchi Kumar
Essays — 6 min read In March 2014, I completed my first marathon in four hours and 58 minutes. It was a blustery day, but the British drizzle had no chance of dampening my mood as I crossed the finish line, because my body had done far more than conquer 26 miles. Eight years earlier—in 2006—just as I was about to graduate from high school, I had developed a severe eating disorder. I’ve never been able to pinpoint exactly what caused it.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
thepersistent.com | Ruchi Kumar |Ginanne Brownell |Naomi Cahn |June Carbone
There’s a gender gap among U.S. voters, and it’s substantial. Women, especially younger women, are more likely to lean Democratic. Men, as you likely guessed, are more likely to lean Republican. Data sources, too many to count, show this directionally, but to put some numbers to it, one survey suggests that about 57% of young women show a preference for Harris, while just 45% of men show a preference for her. In many ways, it makes sense.
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
linkedin.com | June Carbone
June Carbone, Naomi Cahn, and Nancy Levit Oct. 13, 2024 The gender gap in presidential polls is substantial, particularly among younger voters. The question is why? In some ways, the gap does not seem surprising in the current race, but the gap is not new, it is global in scope, and it has been increasing.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
msn.com | June Carbone |Nancy Levit |Naomi Cahn
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
thehill.com | June Carbone |Nancy Levit |Naomi Cahn
In the upcoming election, the future of the Supreme Court is at stake: The next president is likely to have the opportunity to appoint several new justices. The Supreme Court’s most recent decisions are part of a decades-long pattern of rulings that bolster what we have called the “winner-take-all economy” — that is, a system that allocates a disproportionate share of society’s resources to those already at the top.
