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Trevor Noah’s Tweets Are Awful and Sexist. Don’t Fire Him for Them.

Trevor Noah’s Tweets Are Awful and Sexist. Don’t Fire Him for Them. Trevor Noah’s Tweets Are Awful and Sexist. Don’t Fire Him for Them.

The best response to the new Daily Show host’s sexism would be to put more women in the writers’ room.

Mar 31, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Michelle Goldberg

Monica Lewinsky, Justine Sacco, John Oliver and the Circle of Shaming

Monica Lewinsky, Justine Sacco, John Oliver and the Circle of Shaming Monica Lewinsky, Justine Sacco, John Oliver and the Circle of Shaming

In the digital era, I shame, you shame, we all shame.

Mar 30, 2015 / Leslie Savan

Game Not Over

Game Not Over Game Not Over

Despite the Gamergate backlash, a new generation of activists is working to end the racial, sexual and gender stereotypes promoted by the video-game industry.

Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Helen Lewis

Bobst Protest, Social Media as Battleground for Race

Bobst Protest, Social Media as Battleground for Race Bobst Protest, Social Media as Battleground for Race

Protests on the NYU campus in the wake of the Eric Garner non-indictment spark debates on social media about race and privilege.

Dec 10, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Andrew Sullivan Versus the Social-Justice Warriors

Andrew Sullivan Versus the Social-Justice Warriors Andrew Sullivan Versus the Social-Justice Warriors

The famous blogger needn’t panic. Twitter’s new partnership with the feminist group WAM! is an attempt to fight abuse, not impose ideological censorship.

Nov 12, 2014 / Michelle Goldberg

Sympathy for Justine Sacco Sympathy for Justine Sacco

Justine Sacco’s tweet was outrageous. So was the online mob campaign that turned her into the most vilified woman in the world.

Dec 23, 2013 / Michelle Goldberg

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