Parenting in the era of Donald Trump

Parenting in the era of Donald Trump

I over-shared with my children about the presidential election, smugly convinced that our country would never elect a maniac like Donald Trump. Growing up, my family had always talked politics around the dinner table.

'Locker Room Talk’ Is a Real-World Threat, and the Porngate Scandal Is Proof

Four days before Christmas in 2015, Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Michael Eakin cried and said he was sorry in front of the state’s Court of Judicial Discipline. The charge was participating in a scandal the media dubbed “Porngate”—in Eakin’s case, exchanging scores of lewd, sexist, racist emails on state servers exchanged with other powerful actors in the state’s criminal justice system.

San Franciscans left out in the cold when it comes to style

San Franciscans left out in the cold when it comes to style

San Francisco is one of the most beautiful cities in America, if not the world. But after living here for seven years, I have come to realize something. It is shockingly free of beautiful people.

Lara Bazelon is a law professor and writer. The recipient of MacDowell and Mesa Refuge residencies, her op-eds and essays have been published in the New York Times,The Atlantic Magazine, New York Magazine, Washington Post, Slate, and Politico, among other media outlets.  Her nonfiction book, AMBITIOUS LIKE A MOTHER: WHY PRIORITIZING YOUR JOB IS GOOD FOR YOUR KIDS is available for pre-order and will be published on April 19.