Writer at large at New York Magazine; former senior writer at Salon and contributor to the New York Times magazine; author of Big Girls Don’t Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women. Her latest book is titled GOOD AND MAD: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger
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