Our weekly Zoom call, for paid subscribers, will be today at 1 PM Eastern.
Our guest will be New York Magazine Editor-at-Large Rebecca Traister, among the best writers on gender and politics (and many other things) in America. This essay she wrote after Hillary Clinton’s defeat in 2016 still captures many painful truths about the brutal burden facing not only women presidential candidates, but American women as a whole. We’ll talk about Trump’s victory, the gender divide, and the relationship between reproductive rights and liberal democracy.
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