SELECT CLIPS + CREDITS
WASHINGTON POST OPINIONS
2024
How tens of thousands of Black U.S. doctors simply vanished. By Uché Blackstock.
Abused women are resorting to violence to survive. They aren’t criminals. By Elizabeth Flock.
Women are divorcing — and finally finding happiness. By Lyz Lenz.
Doctors have fatphobia, too — which does serious harm to patients. By Kate Manne.
2023
America doesn’t need more God. It needs more atheists. By Kate Cohen.
How I honor my dead mother: By doing the things she loved. By Margo Rabb.
I was once alcohol’s captive. Here’s what set me free. By Tracy K. Smith.
My neighbor lived to be 109. This is what I learned from him. By David Von Drehle.
What if climate change meant not doom — but abundance? By Rebecca Solnit.
What a dad wearing a brash hat taught me about fear and fatherhood. By Jaswinder Bolina.
My kids need to know that Black is brilliance. So we go to museums. By Danté Stewart.
What I learned about America at 3 miles per hour. By Neil King Jr.
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Long covid has derailed my life. Make no mistake: It could yours, too. By Madeline Miller.
Covid gave me 2 options: Give in to alcohol addiction, or choose life. By Angela Garbes.
Covid flipped the introvert-extrovert script. And I hate it. By Rebecca Makkai.
It took a pandemic to change the nature of my chronic procrastination. By Yiyun Li.
The best thing to do when covid relented? Dance, dance the night away. By Andy Field.
Covid taught me what life might look like after death. By Pico Iyer.
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What happened when toxic social media came for my daughter. By Laura Thornton.
Why reports of period weirdness after covid shots were ignored. By Kate Clancy.
Emotional labor at work is work. It should be compensated that way. By Rose Hackman.
Why do women stay with their abusers? Here’s one overlooked reason. By Emily Nix.
For decades, I blamed my mother for my shame. Then I grew up. By May N. Akabogu.
For girls’ sake, let’s end the myth of the ‘fearless’ girl. By Mattie Kahn.
Don’t want a baby because of climate fears? You’re not alone. By Peggy O’Donnell Heffington.
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Only one thing will solve the fentanyl crisis. By Sam Quinones.
A stranger planned to bomb my mosque. He became a member instead. By Bibi Bahrami.
In Indiana, the culture wars aim at Kinsey — the heart of sex research. By Justin Garcia.
We’re thinking about food ‘waste’ all wrong. By Tamar Adler.
Forget independence. Teach your kids this instead. By Jennifer Breheny Wallace.
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How to defend against the rise of ChatGPT? Think like a poet. By Jaswinder Bolina.
For us weird Asians, ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ is a second chance. By Jeff Yang.
Heather Armstrong, a.k.a. Dooce, was real and raw. And we loved her. By Lyz Lenz.
What the fat-shamers don’t get about Lizzo. By Danielle Pinnock.
Even more than April 1, Valentine’s Day is for fools. By Tess Wilkinson-Ryan.
2022
Trump should fill Christians with rage. How come he doesn’t? By Michael Gerson.
I became a U.S. citizen to secure my rights. Now I fear I’m losing them. By Aaditi Lele.
Book bans signal the dangerous direction society is moving. By Azar Nafisi.
The Jan. 6 mob surged at me. Then the trauma rushed in. By Kate Woodsome.
Why many immigrants believe the ‘big lie’ — and will again. By Minh-Thu Pham.
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Antiabortion laws are forced-birth laws. Here’s what that looks like. By Kate Manning.
I had a late-term abortion. But saying I’m ‘pro-choice’ is a problem. By Laurel Marlantes.
What it means when miscarriage is a crime. By Katy Simpson Smith.
Overturning Roe would be disastrous for the U.S. military. By Allison Gill.
As an adoptee, I know: Adoption is not a fairy-tale answer to abortion. By Cynthia Landesberg.
On Roe, Alito cites a judge who treated women as witches and property. Jill Elaine Hasday.
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The gun-violence plague is evolving, dangerously. By Marilynne Robinson.
At school, we prepare to be shot at. This is how it feels. By Allie Carter.
My guide dog helps keep me safe. But she can’t protect me from guns. By Stephen Kuusisto.
I’m from Uvalde. I’m not surprised this happened. By Neil Meyer.
Hate is not at the root of most mass shootings. By James Densley and Jillian Peterson.
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This group has a shocking concussion rate. It’s not football players. By Rachel Ramirez, Luke Montgomery and Julianna Nemeth.
I can’t outrun the risks of being a woman runner. And I’m sick of it. By Melissa A. Sullivan.
For the sake of a visa, I was forced into marriage in Arizona — at age 15. By Sasha K. Taylor.
Statutes of limitations for sex crimes further punish survivors. It’s time to end them. By Rachel Korberg.
The Depp-Heard verdict is a gag order for women. By Charlotte Proudman.
In prison, having your period can put your life in danger. By Gabrielle A. Perry.
Breastfeeding isn’t ‘free.’ Here’s what it cost me. By Alyssa Rosenberg.
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I’m the father of a trans boy in Florida. ‘Don’t say gay’ is working as intended. By Alberto Cairo.
My high school paper published a ‘pride’ issue. Then we got canceled. By Marcus Pennell.
I’m the mother of a trans son in Texas — and no, I’m not a ‘child abuser.’ By Amber Briggle.
Texas officials are spreading blatant falsehoods about medical care for transgender kids. By Jack Turban.
The data are clear: The boys are not all right. By Andrew Yang.
In my advanced high school history textbook, it’s as if women didn’t exist. By Micaela Wells.
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The historical truth about women burned at the stake in America? Most were Black. By Kali Nicole Gross.
Black History Month is over. Thank goodness. By Cole Arthur Riley.
Take it from a high schooler who’s actually learned about CRT: Adults need to chill out. By Christiane Calixte.
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Climate disaster isn’t a game. When will the U.S. stop pretending it is? By Ricia Anne Chansky Sancinito.
Dear parents: Don’t just tell your kids not to ‘stare’ at mine. By Christina Cipriano.
Why are schools submitting kids to this barbaric treatment? By Brian Calley.
She was paid to stay off drugs. Here’s why this approach could help others. By Emefa Addo Agawu.
I’m 56 years old. Damn straight I’m wearing a bikini this summer. By Leslie Morgan Steiner.
2021
3 retired generals: The military must prepare now for a 2024 insurrection. By Paul D. Eaton, Antonio M. Taguba and Steven M. Anderson.
From 9/11 to covid-19, I have seen how terror leads to fear, and fear to hatred. By Jaswinder Bolina.
Watching 9/11 taught me, a refugee, the visceral lessons of Americanness. By Roya Hakakian.
I was a combat interpreter in Afghanistan, where cultural illiteracy led to U.S. failure. By Baktash Ahadi.
I’m a Sudanese refugee. This Father’s Day, all I want is to be reunited with my family. By Abdel Rahman Abdalla.
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For my brother George Floyd, this is what justice feels like. By Philonise Floyd.
My 12-year-old brother’s death was used to sell the ‘war on drugs.’ It’s time for Biden to end it. By Tony Van Der Meer.
How the language of criminal justice inflicts lasting harm. By DeAnna Hoskins and Zoë Towns.
I’m a professor at a U.S. military academy. Here’s why I teach critical race theory. By Lynne Chandler García.
If first-graders are old enough to use racial slurs, they’re not ‘too young’ to learn about racism. By Candace Howze.
A Jane Austen museum addressing Regency-era slavery? How sensible. By Vanessa Riley.
Anti-Asian hate is as bad as ever. Why has attention to it waned? By Arthur Tam.
What pretending to be a White guy taught me about privilege. By Annabelle Tometich.
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I fought for years in court for my basic rights as a trans kid. It shouldn’t have been this hard. By Gavin Grimm.
My school board’s rejection of ‘sexually explicit’ books sends a cruel message to students like my daughter. By Gina Opdycke Terry.
I lost my father to cancer — and my sister to vaccine refusal. By Stacy Torres.
As a three-time Olympic gymnast, I applaud Simone Biles — and know the weight on her shoulders. By Dominique Dawes.
Please do not put a party hat on my head — and other indignities of old age. By Elaine Soloway.
FREELANCE
Awakening: #MeToo and the Global Fight for Women’s Rights. By Rachel B. Vogelstein and Meighan Stone.
Everybody’s War: The Politics of Aid in the Syria Crisis. Jehan Bseiso, Michiel Hofman, and Jonathan Whittall (eds).
Finding Home in the West — by Smokejumping. By Sarah Berns.
Shooting Ghosts: A U.S. Marine, a Combat Photographer, and Their Journey Back From War. By Thomas J. Brennan and Finbarr O’Reilly.
The Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote. By Brooke Kroeger.
Sex & Startups and Zebras Fix What Unicorns Break. By Jennifer Brandel and Mara Zepeda.
“To write is human, to edit is divine.”