Susan J. Douglas
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Women Reach a Breaking Point
How tired are you of seeing a tiny minority of wingnut Americans--"birthers," "teabaggers," Obama-haters--get so much coverage in the… more
vol. 33, iss. 11 gender, social justice
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Killing Granny with the Laziness Bias
Progressives have been wrong--overly idealistic--about the power of communication. Many of us cling to the belief that if you… more
vol. 33, iss. 10 media, medical & health
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News Media ‘Acting Stupidly’
The most exasperating, if utterly predictable, lesson from the Henry Louis Gates Jr. contretemps was not about race. It… more
vol. 33, iss. 09
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Jon & Kate Plus Mindless Drivel
Standing in the supermarket checkout line, I'm accosted by a slew of headlines: Has Jon been cheating on Kate?… more
vol. 33, iss. 07
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Antidote to Drug War Madness
So I was making dinner, and on NPR I hear, to my amazement, a report by Robert Siegel and… more
vol. 33, iss. 06 drugs, economy
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Let’s Expose the Poster Boys of Greed
Boy, have I learned my lesson, which I pass onto you. Do not, under any circumstances, call out any… more
vol. 33, iss. 05 corporations, economy, media
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Wanted: A Perp Walk For Plutocrats
My husband and I were engaged in our usual dinner table rant about politics and the economy. Having made… more
vol. 33, iss. 04 economy
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Death by Chutzpah
You know what I'm tired of? Chutzpah. Defined as "utter nerve; effrontery," chutzpah can be admirable, especially when people… more
vol. 33, iss. 03 politics
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The Dragon We Must Slay
Obama as Lincoln. Obama as FDR. The instantly classic image of Obama, sticking his jaw defiantly into the pouring… more
vol. 33, iss. 02 media, obama, roosevelt
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Invisible Women
So here's the great contradiction of the 2008 presidential campaign: It was all about women, and not about women… more
vol. 33, iss. 01
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How Will the Media Cover Obama?
It's the morning after Election Day and, like millions, I am filled with elation and hope. CNN let me… more
vol. 32, iss. 12 elections, media, obama
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The End of Aggressive Ignorance?
How surreal is life right now? Between a right-wing, government-loathing president insisting on bringing socialism to Wall Street, a… more
vol. 32, iss. 11 elections, politics
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What Bush Has Stolen From Us
Many of us had been waiting for tougher talk from Barack Obama about John McCain and the Bush presidency.… more
vol. 32, iss. 10 elections, george w. bush
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Feminism Without Feminism
As the Republicans were swooning over Sarah Palin, proclaiming "A Star is Born," we saw something else hatched too.… more
web only elections, gender
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Damned If Feminine, Damned If Feminist
What role has sexism played in the race for the Democratic nomination? Hillary Clinton answered that seething question herself… more
vol. 32, iss. 07 gender
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Tilting at Media Windmills?
In April, the news media began a predictable turn to "image scandals" in the presidential campaign. And then it… more
vol. 32, iss. 06
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News You Can Lose
Brace yourselves. The real presidential campaign -- the kind the news media have forced us to get used to… more
vol. 32, iss. 05
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Debt: Our 9 Trillion Pound Gorilla
Who would have thought that we might ever miss Ross Perot? Squawking at us with his graphs and pie… more
vol. 32, iss. 04
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A Foggy Kristol Ball
The Op-Ed pages of the New York Times, still the most influential and prestigious newspaper in the country, do… more
vol. 32, iss. 03
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The Jamie Lynn Effect
The story was so big it made front page of the New York Times: Jamie Lynn Spears, Britney's 16-year-old… more
vol. 32, iss. 02 gender, media
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Beware the Credit-Industrial Complex
Barely regulated banks are getting away with one usurious practice after the next: not only the subprime fiasco, but the extortionate service fees on your bank accounts and the escalating interest fees, late fees and truncated payment cycles on your credit cards more
vol. 32, iss. 01 corporations
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Tax and Spend? Hell, Yeah!
Why does anyone need $50 million a year? What do you do with it--buy five houses in Aspen like Enron's Ken Lay did? more
vol. 31, iss. 12 elections, media
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The Times vs. Feminism
The Book Review's recent nasty review of Katha Pollitt's memoir is only the latest in a long line of outlandish attacks on feminists more
vol. 31, iss. 11 books, gender
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Twilight of the Market’s Idols
Not Larry Craig, but George Bush and his careless economic policies, have left the Republican party cornered in a bathroom stall more
vol. 31, iss. 10 economy, george w. bush
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How Does Laura Bush Sleep at Night?
The worst First Lady in recent memory has had no consistent program or agenda to changes things for the better, while at the same time providing PR cover for her husband more
vol. 31, iss. 09 administration, george w. bush
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Is Cheney Evil or Just a Weasel?
By likening Dick to He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named, we confirm the bully's power rather than undermine it more
vol. 31, iss. 08 administration, media
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The Enduring Lies of Ronald Reagan
Though the GOP continues to canonize the fortieth president, we can't forget his legacy as a liar and a foreign policy flop more
vol. 31, iss. 07 politics
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The Legacy of Tailhook
Supporting our troops at any cost overshadows holding them accountable for sexual assault within military more
vol. 31, iss. 06 gender, military, military
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Why Women Hate Hillary
She reinforces the Genghis Khan principle of American politics that our leaders must be ruthless and macho more
vol. 31, iss. 05 elections, gender
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Why Does CNN Suck?
As the news media struggle to find equilibrium in an era of increased competition and decreased trust, we have… more
vol. 31, iss. 04 media, television
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Molly And the Mainstream
Even after her death, the media couldn't figure out what made Molly Ivins so beloved. more
vol. 31, iss. 02 media
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I Hate to Say We Told You So, But
Now that the Bush administration has sustained massive, serial repudiations of its tragic folly in Iraq--from the Iraq Study… more
vol. 31, iss. 01 war, war on terror
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Danger: A Policy With No Brains
Susan J. Douglas argues that "The Michicagn Civil Rights Initiative" (MCRI), which bans the use of affirmative action by all public institutions in the state, shows we have fogotten much further there is to go before feminism and civil rights movements achieve justice. more
vol. 30, iss. 12 elections, gender, race
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Fear and Voting in the USA
People are terrified over the future of the republic. more
vol. 30, iss. 11 books, elections, media, politics
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9/11 Refracted
Post-9/11 reporting has been full of commercialization, ideology and manipulation, not unbiased reporting. more
vol. 30, iss. 10 media, movies, war, war on terror
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Enough With the Celebutantes!
celebrity culture is a major culprit in the backlash against women. more
vol. 30, iss. 08 gender, media
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Regime Change and Its Discontents
Can books still make history? They used to. This seemed particularly true in the '60s, when Rachel Carson's Silent… more
vol. 30, iss. 07 administration, books, politics
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If Ken Lay Was Black
Why aren't we hearing more about the Enron trials in the MSM? more
vol. 30, iss. 06 corruption, race
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Congenital Liars and Hypocrites
The crowning achievement of the Bush administration's first term was public relations, spin and salesmanship. So how can it… more
vol. 30, iss. 05 administration
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Lou Dobbs, Now More Than Ever
One of the Bush administration's overriding goals has been to discredit every institution that threatens the imperial presidency: Congress,… more
vol. 30, iss. 04 media
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Friedan and King: Super Models
Within the space of a week, three stories were front page news--the deaths of Betty Friedan and Coretta Scott… more
vol. 30, iss. 03 gender
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Let Them Eat Crap
Begin on the sixth floor, third room from the end, swathed in fluorescence: a 60-year-old woman was having two… more
vol. 30, iss. 02 medical & health
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My fellow Americans
Evil-doers are now using nursing homes as sleeper cells, training our seniors to become suicide bombers. more
vol. 30, iss. 01 politics
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The Times Disses Women
The New York Times has serious female troubles, and it's time to call them on it. Why are they… more
vol. 29, iss. 26 gender
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Missing Their Moment
I recently received a letter from Nancy Pelosi, my close personal friend. Well, at least the letter was addressed… more
vol. 29, iss. 24 politics
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The Margins Go Mainstream
Hurricane Katrina is being touted as a turning point in American politics. Much has also been made of the… more
vol. 29, iss. 22 media
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Nose-Ringed No More
This is the summer of Bush's discontent. The more he tries to project that everything is just A-OK, the… more
vol. 29, iss. 20 administration
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The Immoral Majority
Back in the late '70s, the Republicans learned that if you hailed people as "taxpayers" rather than citizens, and… more
vol. 29, iss. 18
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Jesus, Is This News?
No matter how much columnists and media critics bemoan the sorry state of American journalism, no matter how low… more
vol. 29, iss. 14 media, religion
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Fairness Now
As long as we are dreaming of the near impossible—the reinstitution of the concept that the airwaves are a… more
vol. 29, iss. 12 media
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Debtor Nation
As the president and his corporate patrons seek to turn the management of Americans’ retirements—a.k.a., our “golden years”—over to… more
vol. 29, iss. 08
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Tsunami Reveals News Gap
Satellite photos of coastlines eradicated, images of utterly bereft mothers who had lost their children, accounts of how people’s… more
vol. 29, iss. 05
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Stages of Grief
It is on refrigerators throughout the land: the map of California and the West Coast, the upper Midwest and… more
vol. 29, iss. 01 elections, politics
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Get Real, Man
Dear Mr. Kerry: On September 11, the History Channel aired a documentary based on the 9/11 Commission report. Did… more
vol. 28, iss. 24
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Coming This Fall…
The TV talk of the summer has been how the Fox Network brazenly copied ABC’s upcoming reality show “Wife… more
vol. 28, iss. 21
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Win Over Women
Republicans have waged a 20-year war against women, mothers and families, and ensured that it’s harder to be a mother here than in any other industrialized country—unless you’re rich, of course more
vol. 28, iss. 18 elections, gender, politics, social justice
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We Are What We Watch
A few weeks ago, Fox-TV offered up the finale of “The Swan”—the mutant offspring of the Miss America pageant,… more
vol. 28, iss. 17 gender, media, social justice, war in iraq
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Confronting the Mommy Myth
As I write this, much of the country is focused on the 9/11 hearings and revelations about Team Bush’s… more
vol. 28, iss. 12 gender, politics, social justice
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Bushettes: Its a Bad Thing
Ah, the dreams of the women’s movement. We envisioned a day when there would be women in high places,… more
vol. 28, iss. 10 gender, media, politics, social justice
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What the FCC?!?
I am sure that if you, like me, see the footage of the “wardrobe malfunction” one more time you’re… more
vol. 28, iss. 08 media, television
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Locker Room Politics
Finally, a president with the guts to denounce that widespread, national scourge: Steroid use among professional athletes. Indeed, many… more
vol. 28, iss. 07
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Dissing Dubya
As you know, many of us are more outraged over this presidency than perhaps any other (which is saying… more
vol. 28, iss. 03 administration, elections, politics
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Post-Feminist Swill Redux
There it sat on the dining room table exuding kryptonite: the Sunday New York Times Magazine with the cover… more
vol. 28, iss. 01
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Seize the Moment
Many progressive Americans sense that we are at a watershed moment in our relationship to the mainstream media. Progressive… more
vol. 27, iss. 26
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Third World, Here We Come
How, like, totally embarrassing. In the wake of the big blackout, critics charged that the United States has a… more
vol. 27, iss. 22
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This Summer, the Worm Is Turning
Ah, this is the life. To be on vacation near the ocean, sunning on the beach by day, and,… more
vol. 27, iss. 20 media, military, war in iraq
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Nose Loops: A Media Accessory
It would hardly be an overstatement to say that the late spring and early summer of 2003 have been… more
vol. 27, iss. 17 media, war in iraq
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The ABCs of Media Deregulation
As soon as most people see the words “duopoly,” “cross-ownership rules,” or “FCC” in the headlines their eyes glaze… more
vol. 27, iss. 15 government, media
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Bush Can Be Beaten
Let’s face it: For now, Team Bush has won. What happens in Iraq over the next months and years… more
vol. 27, iss. 13 war in iraq
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Shock and Awe: How to Combat Awful War Coverage
Now that Team Bush has gotten its way and unilaterally launched an invasion of Iraq, those of us who… more
vol. 27, iss. 12 media, social justice, war in iraq
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Technical Foul Against Title IX
Every weekend, like millions around the country, I witness a revolution. I go to a sports facility, outdoors or… more
vol. 27, iss. 09 gender, politics, social justice
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The Real American Taliban
It is not surprising when The Nation features an article about the Bush administration’s assault on women’s reproductive rights.… more
vol. 27, iss. 07 gender, medical & health, politics, social justice
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Patriarchy, New and Improved
Any feminist, female or male, who has seen ABC’s The Bachelor was repulsed. For those who have missed this… more
vol. 27, iss. 02 gender, social justice
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Manufacturing Postfeminism
I’m sitting here, in one hand Vogue’s April edition called “The Shape Issue,” featuring Angelina Jolie (“Rebel with a… more
vol. 26, iss. 13
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The West Wing’s Workaholics
On Wednesday nights, like millions of Americans swimming upstream to a vision of a presidency marked by intelligence, I… more
vol. 26, iss. 11
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Patriots and Scoundrels
It has been hard, these past few weeks, not to feel helpless, depressed, fearful and, most of all, erased.… more
vol. 25, iss. 26
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