The Persistent

The Persistent

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  • 2 weeks ago | thepersistent.com | Emma Haslett

    It’s 7:50 on a Sunday morning and my husband and I are loading our two small daughters and a vast bag of snacks onto a creaky double-decker bus.

  • 1 month ago | thepersistent.com | Francesca Donner

    Culture — 11 min read We’ve all heard them: the messages—sometimes subtle, sometimes overt—that you don’t quite measure up. Perhaps you’re not smart enough. Or your ideas aren’t all that. Or your skills are slightly lacking. You’re good, let’s be clear about that. In fact, you might be very good. You’re just not good enough. Lilly Ledbetter certainly heard it in her nearly-two decades at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company.

  • 1 month ago | thepersistent.com | Emma Haslett

    In February, Donald Trump signed an executive order promising to improve access to IVF for Americans. The order, which asked his team to come up with “a list of policy recommendations on protecting IVF access and aggressively reducing out-of-pocket and health plan costs for IVF treatment” pitted two groups of his most ardent supporters against one another. On one side, the evangelical followers, who have become increasingly vocal about their opposition to IVF.

  • 1 month ago | thepersistent.com | Mara Altman

    After the 2024 U.S. presidential election, I started to see “joy” mentioned everywhere.

  • 1 month ago | thepersistent.com | Monique El-Faizy |Ginanne Brownell

    Infertility — 7 min read A few months after my twins were born via surrogacy in 2018, I sat down with a former state legislator named Gretchen Whitmer. She was running for governor in my home state of Michigan and I was interviewing her. After our interview we made small talk, as Midwest gals do. I explained that while I had grown up in Michigan, I was now based in London, but I was home for a few months waiting for my kids’ passports.

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