by Justin Price | Nov 22, 2016 | Blog
How many times did we, Democrats living in big cities, say among friends, “It’s unimaginable to think of Donald Trump becoming president?” It turns out, unimaginable is a brain trick: If you cannot imagine it, you cannot think it, or admit evidence to the contrary....
by Justin Price | May 23, 2016 | Blog
May 22, 2016 by Thomas James Weaver, University of Vermont Famed author Gail Sheehy spun out a commencement address to the University of Vermont’s Class of 2016 that transported her audience back to the UVM alumna’s own college days in the late 1950s, put them on the...
by Justin Price | Jan 6, 2016 | Blog
“All the things that are supposed to be so wrong with women—you talk too much, you’re too emotional, you change your mind all the time—we consider these to be advantages,” Cat Lincoln told me when I interviewed her about the popular Silicon Valley company she founded...
by Justin Price | Dec 30, 2015 | Blog
Politico Magazine this week runs its annual “Why They Mattered” feature, selecting recently deceased politicos to highlight. I was asked to tell the story of chemist Carl Djerassi, who called himself “Father of the Pill.” Standard websites gave the brilliant...
by Justin Price | Dec 28, 2015 | Blog
On my latest Women Who Dare episode, I speak with Meaghan Ybos – a rape survivor who has dared to dedicate her career to changing the statue of limitations on rape kits in Tennessee. Her work will lead to a reversal of the overwhelming and inexcusable rape kit backlog...