Robin on Trump's "Fixer," Zuckerberg's testimony, a new organ in the human body, and snow monkeys. Guest: "Everything But the Girl" singer-songwriter Tracey Thorn opts for in-your-face feminism in her new Record.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security plans to monitor hundreds of thousands of news sources around the world and build a database that it enables it to track and search journalists, editors, and “media influencers” based on their beat and past work.
Removing the barriers to accessing safe and timely abortion is an economic justice issue.
Robin on those awesome Red State teachers; MeToo in Moscow and Wall Street; mourning the death of Winnie Mandela. Guests: Brianna Fisher, Leni Steinhardt, Zoe Gordon—high school journalists who lived through and report on the Parkland, FL tragedy.
Obituaries of Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt only tell part of the story. Here's the rest.
Women hold fewer than one-quarter of elected positions in the U.S. Eight top women's organizations are uniting to change this picture.
I doubt that even years from now our world will be perfect, that all issues of violence will be solved. But I know I will no longer sit idly by when mass shootings kill kids. I will be able to look back and say that I did something.
Robin on Facebook's crash, Cambridge Analytica's pimp, Al Qaida's "feminine" drive, and women keeping men's secrets. Guests: Stacey Abrams, African-American feminist running for Georgia governor; June Millington, "godmother of women's rock 'n roll."
At a recent closed-door meeting, Bethany Kozma stood before a roomful of international leaders assembled to discuss gender equality and women’s rights and announced that the “U.S. is a pro-life nation.”
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard the first oral arguments in a crucial case targeting Crisis Pregnancy Centers. Lizz Winstead of Lady Parts Justice explains why this case is so important.
On Monday, Mississippi's governor signed a new bill into law that prohibits abortion after 15 weeks, making Mississippi the strictest state in the country for women who want to terminate unwanted pregnancies. Just before noon today, a district judge granted a temporary restraining order requested by the state's lone clinic.
Robin on sexism and pop music, the high-school protests, ageism and lowering the age to vote—and reversing the arrow of time?! Guest: Nina Khrushcheva on Putin's real motives and how current US policy aids and abets him. Plus Surrealism Corner!
The teen victims of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting quickly coalesced into a movement: They used the hashtag #NeverAgain to share their experiences on Twitter and made their message clear to mainstream media, too.
Robin on striking teachers, marching students, cranky nuns, and defining "articulate." Guests: Kimberlé Crenshaw and Rhanda Dormeus on "Say Her Name" activism; Helen LaKelly Hunt on her book about erasure of early 19th-century feminists of faith.
The last decade saw the slowest progress on closing the gender wage gap in nearly 40 years, according to a report released Wednesday.
Robin on the hidden history of the Second Amendment, Hope Hicks, sexism at the BBC, Boko Haram's return, and China's Winnie the Pooh. Guests: Charlotte Gordon on the feminist origins of "Frankenstein"; Masih Alinejad on women's uprising in Iran.
The February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School may be the tragic event that finally leads to the change this country needs to finally address gun control.
The fight against injustice will always be long and often discouraging. The only way to persist is to choose a cause you feel that your life—and the lives of others—depends on, one you can speak to from (for lack of a better, less cheesy phrase) the heart.
Robin on new anti-NRA tactics; both former "Playmate" and porn star joining MeToo against Trump; breast-feeding in Congress—and KFC?!? Guests: Catherine Kerrison on Jefferson's daughters—two white, one black; Pascale Lamche's Mandela film "Winnie."
Robin on repeated school shootings, systemic sexism, fake "followers," the Right's assault on the courts, and how #MeToo just might bring down Trump. Guest: Emily Wilson, the first woman to translate The Odyssey into English. Plus Surrealism Corner.
They are the hidden cost of Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war in the Philippines: single, teenage mothers whose partners have been killed by police or vigilantes. And without a job or government support, it’s near impossible for them to support their children.
Robin on WH Staff Secretary Rob Porter and wife-battery, and on House Dem. Leader Nancy Pelosi's historic Dreamers plea. Guests: historian Linda Gordon on her Second Coming of the KKK book; Ellen Pao on how she shook up Silicon Valley pre-Me Too.
As women used words like “menstruation” and “heavy flow” while describing the humiliating and degrading experience of having insufficient sanitary products in prison, the nine, all-male members of the Arizona legislature’s Committee on Military, Veterans and Regulatory Affairs bristled and shifted in their seats.
SPECIAL EDITION WMC LIVE. Celebration of the life and work of Ursula K. Le Guin (d. Jan. 22, 2018): Robin's Exclusive Conversations with UKL on poetry, fiction, feminism, motherhood, politics, freedom, craft, and play. Le Guin reads her latest poems.
The Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Harassment Act aims to eliminate corporate policies that allow companies to silence victims of sexual harassment in the workplace.
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