Laura Bassett
MSNBC Columnist
Laura Bassett is an award-winning journalist who writes about gender, culture and politics. Her bylines have appeared in GQ, Elle, The Washington Post, New York Magazine and elsewhere, and she consulted on Netflix’s Emmy-nominated docuseries “The Keepers.” Previously, she was a senior politics reporter at HuffPost for nearly a decade.
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Both Cuomo brothers have amassed massive power and influence, while betraying public trust. New Yorkers, and CNN viewers, deserve better.
The Julie K. Browns of the world deserve better than what a collapsing industry has provided.
It’ll be weeks before we get the final results in this overly dramatic Democratic primary.
A Black woman is inherently scarier to GOP voters than a white West Virginian man.
When will liberals learn to stop relying on so-called party moderates like Manchin to get things done?
Abbott can call himself “anti-woman,” or “pro-birth,” but he can’t call himself “pro-life” when he and his state are recklessly trying to kill people.
When Trump added three anti-abortion conservatives to the Supreme Court, he pretty much guaranteed a roll-back of women’s rights.
It was very satisfying to watch Kennedy underestimate Abrams and then see her intellectually stomp him in front of his colleagues and the world.
Khloe Kardashian can champion body positivity or accept her family’s legacy of profiting off of depressingly unrealistic beauty standards. But not both.
