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WMC News & Features
September 08, 2021 | Susan Buttenwieser | Politics
What Can We Learn From the Cuomo Case About Workplace Sexual Harassment?

The details of the case of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo are all too familiar across many workplaces.

WMC News & Features
August 12, 2021 | Susan Buttenwieser | Health, Politics
Abortion Restrictions at an All-Time High; Activists Fight Back

In defiance of public opinion, state legislatures in 2021 have already passed the highest number of curbs on abortion since the 1973 Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision.

WMC Women Under Siege
July 31, 2021 | Nikita Jain, Kasturi Chakraborty | Free Speech, Gender-based violence, Politics, Violence against women
Women Activists in India Still Face Detention and Police Intimidation After Anti-CAA Protests

Women who participated in anti-CAA protests nearly two years ago continue to be targeted by law enforcement, bearing the full brunt of the security apparatus or facing aggressive intimidation.

WMC News & Features
July 28, 2021 | Shazia Z. Rafi | Environment, International, Politics
Ecofeminists Lead the Way

Activists whose work incorporates ecological, health, and equality campaigns have moved from protesting outside the halls of power to become elected legislators writing and passing the environmental protection frameworks that they campaigned for.

WMC News & Features
July 21, 2021 | Nichola Gutgold | Politics
Harris’ Weighty Assignments Could Prove Helpful in Presidential Bid

Even though she has taken on seemingly impossible tasks, for the first woman U.S. vice president, action beats inaction.

WMC Live
June 27, 2021 | Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #353: The Roaring Twenties. (Original Airdate 6/27/2021)
Season Finale! Robin plumbs parallels from the 1920s—from pandemic to pandemic, automobile to Harlem Renaissance, prohibition to evolution, women’s enfranchisement to The Great Migration. So how can we avoid repeating our mistakes this time?
WMC News & Features
June 22, 2021 | Susan Buttenwieser | LGBTQIA, Politics
What the Equality Act Could Mean for LGBTQ Civil Rights

A wave of anti-LGBTQ state laws, and the recent Fulton Supreme Court ruling, show the need for the federal civil rights law that is awaiting Senate action.

WMC Live
June 20, 2021 | Janet Dewart Bell, Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #352: Juneteenth! (Original Airdate 6/20/2021)
Robin celebrates Juneteenth, Jubilee or Freedom Day, commemorating the end of enslavement in the United States. Special Guest: Dr. Janet Dewart Bell, social justice activist and author.
WMC Live
June 13, 2021 | Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #351: Cities. (Original Airdate 6/13/2021)
Robin explores both the crucial importance and the crisis in cities, how COVID has forever altered city life, and how those radical changes will inform our future.
WMC Live
June 06, 2021 | Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #350: The Political Parties. (Original Airdate 6/6/2021)
Robin traces the surprising, acidic, and hilarious history of American political parties, from George Washington's denunciation of them up to today, and explores third (or more) party alternatives, and how and why they have so far failed.
WMC Live
May 23, 2021 | Gail Collins, Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #349: The Crisis in Journalism. (Original Airdate 5/23/2021)

Robin explores the general crisis in journalism—especially print journalism, despite the current Golden Age for print investigative reporting. Special Guest: Gail Collins, New York Times columnist.

WMC Live
May 16, 2021 | Deeyah Khan, Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #348: Back to Basics—Reproductive Rights. (Original Airdate 5/16/2021)

Robin sends a red alert about women's more-than-ever threatened contraceptive and abortion rights. Special Guest: Deeyah Khan on her new documentary film, America's War on Abortion.

WMC Live
May 09, 2021 | Charlotte Gordon, Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #347: A Far Cry from Peace. (Original Airdate 5/9/2021)

Robin explores the original meaning and reasons for what has become another consumer holiday: Mother's Day. Special Guest: Charlotte Gordon, author of Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley.

WMC News & Features
April 28, 2021 | Rebecca Adamson | Economy, Environment, Politics
SEC Takes a Step for Corporate Accountability

A new rule announced by the Securities and Exchange Commission could enable investors and other groups to hold companies accountable for their impact on communities.

WMC Live
April 25, 2021 | Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #346: The Supreme Court, Part 2. (Original Airdate 4/25/2021)

Robin on The Verdict in the Chauvin trial, and its deeper meaning. Also, an exploration of the Supreme Court and why/how it can, after all, be expanded.

WMC Live
April 18, 2021 | Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #345: Poetry! (Original Airdate 4/18/2021)
For Poetry Month this spring, Robin reads work by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Louise Erdrich, Dorothy Parker, Audre Lorde, Victoria Chang, Kimiko Hahn, Lucille Clifton, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Suzi F. Garcia, Stevie Smith, Charlotte Mew, and others.
WMC Live
April 11, 2021 | Annie Laurie Gaylor, Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #344: Religious Establishments. (Original Airdate 4/11/2021)

Robin returns to religion's role in our secular Republic, and the ongoing struggle to keep it separate. Guest: Annie Laurie Gaylor of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, the largest organization of atheists, agnostics, and free thinkers in the USA.

WMC Live
March 28, 2021 | Helen Zia, Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #343: Another Original Sin. (Original Airdate 3/28/2021)
Robin's Fighting Words expose centuries of anti-Asian American hate before the Georgia terrorism against AAPI women. Guests: legendary activist Helen Zia; Sung Yeon Choimorrow, Executive Director of the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum.
WMC Live
March 21, 2021 | Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #342: The Pandemic Anniversary. (Original Airdate 3/21/2021)
Robin on “The Year That Was,” where we are now, and the future; plus a special report on women and the vaccine(s). Guest: Linda Goler Blount, President & CEO of Black Women's Health Imperative.
WMC News & Features
March 19, 2021 | Susan Buttenwieser | LGBTQIA, Politics
Undoing Trump’s Four-Year Assault on LGBTQ Rights: Biden Provides a “Sea Change”

The Biden administration's early actions to promote LGBTQ equality are getting high marks from rights groups.

WMC Live
March 14, 2021 | Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #341: A Meditation on Whiteness. (Original Airdate 3/14/2021)

In this unique podcast, Robin explores the complexities of Thomas Jefferson's 40-year-long relationship with the enslaved Sally Hemings—which inspires a meditation on whiteness.

WMC News & Features
March 09, 2021 | Nicole Bedera | Gender-based violence, Politics, Violence against women
The Fight to Refocus Title IX on Survivors

As Biden calls for a review of enforcement guidelines, advocates are pushing the administration to do more than just repair Trump-era harms.

WMC Live
February 28, 2021 | Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #340: The People's House. (Original Airdate 2/28/2021)
The United States House of Representatives: its powers, history, legends, and unique Constitutional functions. Special Guest: Congresswoman Val Demings (D-FL).
WMC Live
February 21, 2021 | Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #339: Homegrown American Terrorism. (Original Airdate 2/21/2021)

Robin—whose book "The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism" predicted this—dives into who funded it, who's behind it, who collaborates in it, and just how deep it runs.

WMC FBomb
February 16, 2021 | Celeste Huang-Menders | Politics
How Political Violence Has Become Normalized for Teen Girls in America

As a 16-year-old, I’ve grown numb to acts of extremism in my country, and I’m hardly the only teenager to feel this way.

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