What happens to us when institutions protect power instead of people? From Epstein to ICE, institutional betrayal is inflicting trauma and moral injury.

Gender isn’t just a matter of individual identity. It’s an axis of governance—and for the last year, across a range of policies, the Trump administration has punished women.

“If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls,” writes Soraya Chemaly.

In December 2019, just weeks before the pandemic lockdown, I participated in a conference on the role of media in the rising threat of authoritarianism. For the people in the room—journalists, academics, and researchers who worked at the intersection…

Gen Z is exhibiting the competence, control, and commitment that it has been castigated, as a generation, for lacking. There is an irony in the fact that students protesting the Israel-Gaza war grew up hearing that they were “coddled” and “lack…

When Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley falsely attributed a quote to Founding Father Patrick Henry over the 4th of July holiday weekend, perhaps it shouldn’t have been all that surprising that the quote turned out to be from a white nationalist publication…

The Oxford English Dictionary defines “obscene” as something that is “offensive or disgusting by accepted standards of morality and decency.” Accordingly, this is how I define obscene: that in 2012 we live in a country, the only one in the…

Until we reach a new equilibrium, men like him will still think the new rules don’t apply to them New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s resignation, announced Tuesday, a week after state Attorney General Letitia James released a scathing report detailing…

It was a gray December afternoon in Arlington, Virginia, day two of the Society for Risk Analysis’ 2019 Annual Meeting, when we first met Paul Slovic. A balding man of 82 in cargo pants, running shoes, and a well-worn wool color-blocked sweater, he…

Viral hate, election interference, and hacked accounts: inside the tech industry’s decades-long failure to reckon with risk One spring day in 2014, Susan Benesch arrived at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park and was ushered into a glass-walled…

Now that the reality of self-isolation, social distancing and quarantines is setting in, so, too, is a growing awareness that women, the culture-holders of care, are stressed to the limit. The novelty has worn off, as has much hope of getting our…

Unproductive, garbled narratives about gender and power gripped the Democratic presidential primary campaign in recent days. Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton blasted her 2016 rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.): “Nobody likes him, nobody…

This week’s presidential debate will be whiter and more male than Democratic voters—fired up by the 2018 midterm congressional elections and the most diverse field of presidential hopefuls ever—could have imagined at the start of 2019. Had she…

In November, during a segment of a podcast called “Ladies Like Us,” the rapper T.I. revealed that he accompanies his 18-year-old daughter to her annual OB-GYN exam to makes sure her hymen is “intact.” In other words, he said he takes her for a…

Donald Trump is spending his week doubling down on his racist suggestion that four Democratic lawmakers—Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, and Rashida Tlaib of…

During one week in May, no fewer than six dads told us independent of each other that their teenage daughters were mad. “She’s so angry,” said one. “She’s got so much anger,” said another. Each father looked sincerely bewildered. “She used to be so ……

Anger is typically defined as a strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or aggression. Mainly, we think of it in terms of individual feelings, and we associate those feelings with isolating behaviours that cause discomfort or fear in ourselves or in…

We urgently need your help. DAME reports the stories that need to be told, from perspectives that aren’t heard enough. In times of crisis it is even more critical that these voices are not overlooked, but COVID-19 has impacted our ability to keep…

The midterm elections saw a cascade of historical firsts for women, as the first Muslim women (Democrat Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Democrat Ilhan Omar, a Somali American former refugee in Minnesota) and Texas’s first Latinas (Democrats Veronica…

She looked at me with arched eyebrows as I read aloud several passages from the two books late one night. “You didn’t know that?” my wife asked quietly. Even now, a year since the Harvey Weinstein revelations and nearly two years since the “Access…