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WMC Live
September 17, 2017 | Amanda Sperber, Mary Mattingly | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #220: Amanda Sperber, Mary Mattingly. (Original Airdate 9/17/2017)

Robin on hurricane coverage, Trump's gutting Title IX, Big Tech malfeasance--and a personal word about Kate Millett. Guests: Journalist Amanda Sperber on an untold story--South Sudan's rapes; Mary Mattingly on Swale, the first floating food forest.

WMC News & Features
September 15, 2017 | Rebecca McCray | Economy, Jane Fonda, Politics
Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin call out subpar wages for women workers

Fast food workers put a national movement called the Fight for $15 on the map in November 2012 when they walked out of chain restaurants across New York City to demand higher hourly wages.

WMC Live
September 10, 2017 | Ana Marie Cox | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #219: Ana Marie Cox. (Original Airdate 9/10/2017)

Season Premiere! Robin on the KKK and neo-Nazis, DACA, hurricanes, North Korea—and the Pope's Jewish woman shrink. Guest: political and cultural correspondent/pundit Ana Marie Cox. Plus, an expanded Surrealism Corner.

WMC News & Features
September 06, 2017 | Jessica Montoya Coggins | Immigration, Politics
Trump kills DACA, striking devastating blow to DREAMers

The Trump administration officially announced yesterday that DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) would be rescinded, pending a six-month delay. For those with DACA status (known as DREAMers), the announcement was a devastating blow, and many face an uncertain future.

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September 06, 2017 | Angela Liu | Politics
Building empathy and understanding in the age of Trump

How can we be less insulated? There isn’t a simple answer to this question, but it’s clear that in order to truly understand and recognize each other, we must want to understand and recognize each other.

WMC News & Features
August 24, 2017 | Sarah Swig | Politics
Winning with choice—good politics and good policy

Democratic leadership has said abortion won't be a "litmus test" for candidates. But they can't make progress on economic and racial justice without fighting for abortion rights.

WMC Women Under Siege
August 12, 2017 | Lauren Wolfe | Media, Politics, Race/Ethnicity
Trump, women, media: White supremacy in Charlottesville has taken a village

No, Donald Trump is not Adolph Hitler.

That this horrific idea exists, floating in our collective ethos and demanding a refutation is shocking. But this is where we are, and the failure to address the horror only means a greater evil is sure to come.

WMC Women Under Siege
August 12, 2017 | Lauren Wolfe | Politics
Why it suddenly might not be crazy to compare Trump to Hitler in 1933

In November 2016, a scholar named Sebastian Schutte—a Marie Curie fellow at the Zukunftskolleg and the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz in Germany—wrote an interesting article in The Washington Post. In it he argued that Trump had not reached Hitlerian heights. Not yet.

WMC News & Features
August 09, 2017 | Katti Gray | Feminism, Media, Politics
How suffragists—and their foes—used media

A new resource on media and the suffrage movement sheds light on the central role of media in any campaign for social change.

WMC News & Features
July 26, 2017 | Heather Watkins | Disability, Health, Politics, WMC Loreen Arbus Journalism Program
Women disability activists front and center in resistance

As disability rights advocates are fighting back against Republican attempts to dismantle Medicaid and other support services, women, especially women of color, bring to their activism "unique, comprehensive, lived experience," reports writer Heather Watkins.

WMC News & Features
July 18, 2017 | Susan Buttenwieser | LGBTQIA, Politics
Justice groups fight back against Texas lawmakers’ anti-trans, anti-choice bills

Republican Governor Greg Abbott has called a special session of the Texas legislature, and anti-choice and anti-trans bills are the hallmarks of the agenda.

WMC FBomb
July 11, 2017 | Farha Khalidi | Media, Politics
We can't ignore Trump's sexist treatment of female reporters

From his comments about “pussy grabbing” to the restrictive reproductive policies he pushes to the lack of women on his staff, it’s understandable why so many women are uncomfortable with and resistant to President Trump. And Trump’s misogyny only continues: Caitriona Perry, an RTE News Washington Correspondent, was the latest woman to endure an upsetting interaction with the president...

WMC News & Features
June 29, 2017 | Rebecca McCray | Media, Misogyny, Politics
Trump’s misogynistic tweets reflect sexism in America

As the Trump administration moved forward on Thursday with new guidelines that severely restrict travel from six Muslim-majority countries, yet again the country was distracted by Trump’s latest grotesque, sexist tweetstorm.

WMC News & Features
June 26, 2017 | Susan Buttenwieser | Health, Politics
Republican Senate bill calls for defunding of Planned Parenthood

The Congressional Budget Office scoring of the Republican Senate health care bill confirms that the proposed law singles out Planned Parenthood for defunding.

WMC News & Features
June 22, 2017 | Rebecca McCray | Economy, Health, Politics
It’s been a ‘heartless’ week for women’s health care

Lawmakers in Missouri set the tone for a dark week in health care reform for women. On Tuesday, the House sent a bill to the state Senate that, if passed, will infringe on the rights of women seeking abortions, and hamper the work of abortion providers.

WMC Live
June 17, 2017 | Ariel Levy | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #213: Ariel Levy, Emily Temple-Wood. (Original Airdate 6/18/2017)

Robin on the GOP baseball shooting, the censoring of Shakespeare, how Jim Crow inspired Hitler, and the tale of Maddie Runckles. Guests: Ariel Levy on why "The Rules Do Not Apply"; Emily Temple-Wood's F-You Project on women in science at Wikipedia.

WMC Live
June 10, 2017 | Jane Manning | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #212: Jane Manning, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein. (Original Airdate 6/11/2017)

Robin on Comey's testimony, Reality Winner's leak, and what everyone overlooks but Trump fears most. Guests: former prosecutor Jane Manning on drug-facilitated rape and the Cosby trial; physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on "the physics of melanin."

WMC Live
June 03, 2017 | Ellen Currano, Meghan Milloy, Jennifer Pierotti Lim | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #211: Ellen Currano, Meghan Milloy and Jennifer Pierotti Lim. (Original Airdate 6/4/2017)

Robin on "covfefe," Hillary's newfound badass free speech, the Paris Accord exit, and all the president's men. Guests: Meghan Milloy and Jennifer Pierotti Lim of GOP Women for Progress; Dr. Ellen Currano on paleontology and The Bearded Lady Project.

WMC Live
May 27, 2017 | Ahd Niazy, Dominique Crenn | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #210: Ahd Niazy, Dominique Crenn. (Original Airdate 5/28/2017)

Robin on the escalating physical attacks against journalists, Trump's misadventures abroad, and his regime's chaos at home. Guests: Ahd Niazy, founder of Saudi feminist literary magazine Jahanamiya; Dominique Crenn, 2-Michelin-star chef and feminist.

WMC FBomb
May 22, 2017 | Mankaprr Conteh | International, Politics
The Manchester Bombing Was An Act Of Terrorizing Girlhood

I didn’t grow up in a very religious home. Concerts are where I know to worship. Joy, to me, in its most potent form, feels like expelling lyrics loudly at a stage. It feels like the rattle of drums in my bones. At concerts, I learned to find communion with strangers. I learned to be grateful for the sorrow and scars and coming of age from which great music is born. The performers are more preachers than deities, though we meet them with godly reverence. When we’re lucky, the artist is a young woman.

WMC Live
May 20, 2017 | Linda Fentiman, Meg Urry | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #209: Linda Fentiman, Claudia Megan Urry. (Original Airdate 5/21/2017)

Robin on Trump's "High Crimes and Misdemeanors," gerrymandering, jailing press, and leakers. Guests: Linda Fentiman on how blaming mothers is embedded in the law; Claudia Megan Urry on the wonders of astrophysics—and fighting sexism in the field.

WMC News & Features
May 16, 2017 | Susan Buttenwieser | Health, Politics
Just how bad for women Is the American Health Care Act?

Women have benefitted from the Affordable Care Act, and women have a lot to lose if the new Republican health care bill becomes law.

WMC Live
May 13, 2017 | Grace Meng, Beth Newell, Sarah Pappalardo | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #208: Grace Meng, Beth Newell & Sarah Pappalardo. (Original Airdate 5/14/2017)

News Exposé Special: Robin lets loose on a shockingly overlooked, major link connecting Trump and Putin. Guests: Congresswoman Grace Meng's "Menstrual Equality Bill"; comics Sarah Pappalardo and Beth Newell discuss "Reductress."

WMC FBomb
May 11, 2017 | Angela Liu | Politics
Did The Election Narrow the Leadership Ambition Gap for Women in Politics?
In the months since Trump’s election, people across the country (and world) have been galvanized to take action. Thousands marched in support of women, science, and the environment. Planned Parenthood...
WMC News & Features
May 10, 2017 | Karen Nussbaum | Politics
Trump policies that hurt workers may be new wedge issue

Trump administration policies are reversing many protections for workers. Could these actions be undermining Trump's support among working-class voters?

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