Bethany Mandel

Proxy voting for new moms makes motherhood look like weakness

5 April 2025 4:34 am

In recent days, babies have taken center stage at the US Capitol, carried by their congresswoman mothers advocating for a…

The New York Times finally comes clean about Covid

19 March 2025 12:34 am

In June 2021, Jon Stewart appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and ridiculed people that dismissed the possibility of a…

Joe Jonas, Sophie Turner and the politics of good motherhood

11 September 2023 3:43 am

I don’t know who Joe Jonas’s publicist is, but whoever they are, they deserve a raise. In the wake of…

Lessons for young daters from the Jonah Hill saga

12 July 2023 5:04 am

There was a viral tweet last year that read, “do married people watch gen z dating and feel like they…

Why civics test scores are falling in American schools

20 June 2023 11:04 pm

Twenty years ago, one of the most popular bits on late-night television was “Jaywalking,” where Tonight Show host Jay Leno quizzed passersby…

A new book and a newborn

19 March 2023 3:04 am

One of the most famous lines from the classic 2002 romcom Sweet Home Alabama has leading lady Reese Witherspoon incredulously asking a…

How abortion falsehoods put lives at risk

7 December 2022 2:37 pm

Margaret (not her real name) is a board certified OB-GYN practicing in a Catholic, pro-life hospital system in Michigan. Ever…

Saving children’s books from wokeness

21 November 2021 4:49 pm

There is something deeply sinister happening in the world of children’s literature. Whereas the children’s section at your local library…