Who your prosecutor is matters more than you can imagine. I have personally experienced the harm that prosecutors can inflict: For years, I fought to free my now husband Jonathan Irons from prison, where he …
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The Genuine Conundrum of Sex in Lockdown
Depending on your closest inner circle, you have either been quarantining and health screening for a private island trip, or you’ve been at home reading the news of Emily Ratajkowski and Sebastian Bear-McClard’s incoming baby. With EmRata and …
At Tonight’s Debate, Can We Please Ask Trump About the 545 Children Still Separated from Their Parents?
My children are 3 and 6 years old. They still sometimes get scared of the dark, and it’s my name they call from their beds. If I lose sight of them for a second at …
Have I Already Had My Last Messy, Debauched, 20-Something Halloween?
For some kids, Halloween is about costumes, scary movies, and the rare opportunity to scare unsuspecting loved ones without social repercussions. For me, it was all about candy. From the ages of five to older-than-I’d-like-to-admit, …
Emma González: Vote as If Your Life Depends on It—Because It Does
On the Fourth of July, when my brothers and I were growing up, my parents would hold the sparklers aside before they gave them to us and would make us promise to vote when we …
Yes, It’s Time for Lindsey Graham to Go
In May 2016, Lindsey Graham tweeted, “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed . . . and we will deserve it.” This tweet turned out to be prescient. But this was from the before …
The Case Against Hugging
It was the hug heard ’round the world: At the Senate Judiciary Committee questioning of potential Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett on Thursday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein thanked committee chairman Lindsey Graham “for your leadership” …
The Case for Sexy Cats
There’s some crows in this house, there’s some crows in this house. After months at home—the only consolation being that our Uber ratings aren’t going down—Halloween is around the corner. The years when your costume took …