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October 4, 2018
To woo TV viewers and attract sponsors, the N.F.L. turned its cheerleaders into sex objects, and the women have paid a steep price. Now, Michelle Ruiz reports, they’re fighting back.
Trump, the mad puppet master of identity politics, understood that Kavanaugh is a proxy for precisely the sort of voter who swept him into office: a white, fiftysomething man, furious that what he feels is owed to him might be slipping away. But the “Kavanaugh bump” with G.O.P. voters may be short-lived, writes Peter Hamby.
Crisis-communications expert Josh Raffel, who often acted like the lone adult in the West Wing, pivots from vaporizing unwanted headlines to, well, vaping.
Ten years after his historic election, Barack Obama is writing, rallying, and still waiting on a more appealing counter-narrative for the country.
“I Feel Bad is my life (sort of),” writes V.F. critic Sonia Soraiya. “So why does watching it feel so bad?”
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