Evening Roundup, July 16
Featuring Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, Anat Shenker-Osorio, Josh Levs, John Cassidy and Jared Bernstein, the Democracy Movement, and Michael de Adder.
Menopause finally gets a seat at the table
In The Fight for Midlife and Menopausal Health is Essential to Reproductive Rights—and Democracy, my first piece published by The Contrarian (way back in January), I wrote, “It may sound surprising to hold out hope for the immediate future of any women’s health issue. But I think menopause may be an outlier.”
Fascism and the English Language
“What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the worst thing you can do with words is to surrender to them.”
Media gives crazy legitimacy to Trump’s ‘assurances’
To understand what the legacy media has been up to in recent days, it helps to think of The Emperor's New Clothes, but with an added element. In this case, picture reporters running around the crowd, interviewing people about how lovely the emperor’s (non-existent) clothes are.
Will capitalism last forever? Jared Bernstein and John Cassidy on Capitalism and Its Critics
John Cassidy joins Jared Bernstein to talk about his new book Capitalism and Its Critics, a history of global capitalism told through the eyes of its strongest detractors. Together, the two discuss John’s inspiration for writing the book, how capitalism often needs to be managed through external forces, and why economic policies must be paired with stro…
The Contrarian covers the Democracy Movement
Every day (Monday-Friday), we’ll update this space with protests, signs and other public demonstrations against the actions of the administration. Keep checking to see how Americans all across the country are protecting and defending democracy. Find protests in your area at
Democrats are the father
Michael de Adder is an award-winning editorial cartoonist. You can find him on Substack here.
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