There’s news for Indian women: Britain’s top-selling Daily Mail and a leading Indian magazine group are about to launch a newspaper targeting women readers in India’s booming media market.

It was once again a seriously bad year to be a woman or a person of color when it comes to the National Book Awards, all of whom went to men, 3 of whom were white, one was a Native American. Most of finalists were male as well, although the roster of judges was fairly […]

Here, as promised the other day, is the video of my appearance this Sunday on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” with Howard Kurtz, in which I debated Kurtz, right wing radio host Michael Medved and Hollywood Reporter columnist Ray Richmond on topics including the WGA writers strike, the ludicrous charge that MSNBC is “lurching to the left,” […]

Have you read the manifesto?
No, not the Communist Manifesto — the manifesto for “My Black is Beautiful,” Procter & Gamble’s new multi-brand, multicultural marketing campaign.
P&G insists “My Black is Beautiful” is “a movement, not just advertising,” according to the Associated Press. But the campaign “began with P&G research that showed black women were frequent […]

Yesterday, I debated the writers strike on CNN’s “Reliable Sources”, where I explained that the media corporations are trying to nickle and dime their writers in the most hypocritical way. (”Well, not even nickel and diming. They’re not even asking for a dime, and they don’t want to give them a nickel,” I told […]

By Guest Blogger Sally Kohn
I wish that film and TV writers could care as much about solidarity and justice on screen as they care on the picket lines.
By going on strike, the stage and screen writers are participating in an American tradition of people joining together, recognizing their shared fate and taking action.
On the […]

In this second half of my interview with Debbie Melnyk, documentary film producer and director, she continues her analysis on Michael Moore’s film techniques that developed while producing Manufacturing Dissent. In the documentary, Melnyk and her co-director and co-producer Rick Caine, pursue an interview with Michael Moore, and much to their surprise, the film takes […]

Dear readers,
It’s been far too long since I’ve written anything on this awesome site. There’s a legitimate excuse: I had to finish an intensive work of investigative journalism, and I retreated to my apartment (my cave, as I began to think of it), to finish the book. Although the subject matter took a lot out […]

I want to invite NYC folks to a special reading/lecture/interview on my book Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind on Nov. 12 at McNally Robinson Bookstore.
I’ll be interviewed by Beth Merrick, the editor of This Isn’t Chick Lit, who has been a strong advocate of women’s serious […]

The Boston Globe headline screams: “Stone Age feminism? Females joining hunt may explain Neanderthals’ end.” There you have it. Feminism kills species. That is one of the few horrible things I had not yet heard attributed to feminism. And to find it among the science news of the major newspapers! […]