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Lauren Duca

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Politics

Sean Spicer’s Emmys Cameo Wasn’t a Joke — It's Dangerous

It wasn't just a joke.
Politics

"Free Speech Week" at UC Berkeley Is Constitutionally Protected — and Morally Bankrupt

Anyone who opposes Yiannopoulos, Coulter, and Bannon’s presence on campus will undoubtedly be framed as opposing a week of “free speech.”
Politics

If Trump Actually Cared About the Dreamers, They Would Be Here to Stay

Actions speak volumes.
News

Fashion IS Political, Period

Lauren Duca explains why there’s no argument.
Politics

Harvey Must Be a Turning Point in the Way We Respond to Climate Change

Science guarantees us that the sort of extreme weather unfolding in Houston is our new normal.
Politics

Read This From a Teleprompter: Donald Trump Is Unfit to Serve

Don't be fooled by Teleprompter Trump.
Politics

How "Nice White People" Benefit from Charlottesville and White Supremacy

Stop furrowing your brow over “the partisan divide,” and loudly declare your position in this fight against hatred.
Politics

Why I’ve Decided NOT to Be Silent About Online Harassment

The public forum is taking place on social media, a place where women can be systematically silenced.
Politics

Democrats Betray Women by Saying They’ll Support Anti-Choice Candidates

When it comes to true financial and social equity, a woman’s right to choose is nonnegotiable.
Politics

Trump Has Already Replaced Yet ANOTHER Member of His Staff

Reince Priebus and Sean Spicer, fading into the bushes.
Politics

Senate Republicans Have Become a Threat to Democracy

With the latest health care vote.
Politics

Trump's Disregard for Women Is Becoming Public Policy

Title IX is at risk — and his administration is responsible.
Politics

America, Please Stop Feeding the Trolls

The #CNNBlackmail hashtag was designed to play on public emotions.
Politics

The White House Is Promoting an Anti-Journalism Conspiracy Theory

You need to know about Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s press briefing on Tuesday.
Politics

You Can't Debate Health Care If You're Dead

"As you process the emerging details of the bill, keep in mind that health is truly all that matters."
Politics

Senator, Interrupted: On Jeff Sessions, Kamala Harris, and the Powerful Man Persecution Complex

"It is a strategy that allows men like Sessions, O’Reilly, and Trump to hide in plain sight."
Politics

The White House Is Essentially a Ministry of Propaganda, Regardless of Who Is in Office

Consider Woodrow Wilson’s Committee on Public Information in 1917.
Politics

Stop Pretending to Be Outraged by Kathy Griffin’s Gross Video

There’s plenty to be genuinely outraged by.
Music

Lauren Duca Sounds Off on Why Pop Culture and Politics Are So Intertwined

“As inclusion itself becomes politicized, everyone is under pressure to pick a side — our superstars at the highest decibel of all.”
Politics

What We ALL Need to Remember in the Wake of the Manchester Terror Attack

“‘Love is the answer’ is an awful cliché, and also a thing we constantly manage to forget.”
Politics

Why Republicans Are Complicit in Donald Trump's Attack on Democracy

Lauren Duca decries the spinelessness of the GOP in this week’s Thigh-High Politics column.
Politics

On Misogynist Trolling and Selective Sexism

"Somehow not supporting women is a crime only for women."
Politics

What *The New York Times'*s Climate Change Column Scandal Has to Do With James Comey

This week's installment of Thigh High Politics is all about "the media."