Obama Nation?
Published September 17, 2009
Only days after the presidential election, I began receiving emails from the Democratic National Committee’s Organizing for America — formerly Obama for America. Several times a week, they implored me to show my support for this or that presidential initiative, and to send money. Such an email arrived a half hour after the president delivered his health [...]
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Poli Psy: Tunnel Vision
Published February 4, 2009
We aggrieved purple Inauguration ticket holders want to be recognized as victims of crime, a protected class, and an endangered species. And while we’re at it, we’ve got some high expectations of the Obama administration too. Read it at Seven Days.
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Poli Psy: What’s Up for O-Nine
Published January 9, 2009
If I can’t keep resolutions, I can make predictions . . .
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Poli Psy: Solidarity, Finally
Published November 13, 2008
As he stepped onstage in Chicago’s Grant Park on election night, Barack Obama was already transformed from candidate to president. On display was his genius, the genius of leadership: He eloquently named the terrible situation — “two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century” — then instilled the courage to [...]
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Poli Psy: Post-Hillary Feminism
Published June 18, 2008
For a while there — especially during the tense days between Obama’s victory and Clinton’s belated exit — it looked as if American feminism might not recover from the Democratic primary contest. The media were spotlighting feminist mothers and their “post-feminist” daughters bickering like, well, mothers and daughters. Hillary was holding hostage her “18 million [...]
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Poli Psy: “Man Enough”
Published January 31, 2008
A women’s magazine I used to write for kept a large three-ring binder filled with story ideas. One section was called “Emo,” though, this being a women’s magazine, all the features were about emotions. Most of them were negative ones, which, presumably, the right shoes or handbag would clear right up (See: Accessories, page 116). [...]