The day after the 2016 United States presidential election, the team behind New York Public Radio’s On the Media recorded an editorial meeting that was then broadcast to its million-plus weekly listeners. In a raw and unfiltered segment, the hosts, Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield, and their executive producer, Katya Rogers, processed feelings of shock and fear and…
Tara Henley
Tara Henley is a current affairs journalist, podcast host, and the author of Lean Out: A Meditation on the Madness of Modern Life.
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For Canadians of a certain ilk — Gen X, lefty, raised in counterculture circles, news obsessed — Naomi Klein has long been an icon. A columnist for the Toronto Star in her twenties, Klein shot to stardom in 1999 with her groundbreaking No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, which sold more than a million copies and became a kind of bible for the anti-globalization…
At the emotional centre of Lisa Whittington-Hill’s new essay collection sits a single question: What is an unmarried, childless, middle-aged woman for? It’s Gen X’s version of the second-wave feminist Betty Friedan’s “problem that has no name”— and a timely issue to contemplate.
North American women now enjoy more freedom and more autonomy than women in any other period of…