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Amanda Marcotte

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Amanda Marcotte blogs every day at Pandagon.net, and contributes a weekly podcast to RH Reality Check. She lives in Austin, TX with her two cats, boyfriend, and environmentally correct commuter bicycle

August 2025

  • Sydney Sweeney wearing white headband and bandeau top

    Politics Weekly America
    Trump, Sydney Sweeney and the ‘war on woke’ – podcast

    This week, Jonathan Freedland speaks to politics reporter Amanda Marcotte about how ‘cancel culture’ is a useful tool in a political crisis
    Podcast28:45

June 2024

  • Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, left, and Martha-Ann Alito attend his ceremonial swearing-in at the White House

    Full Story
    US politics: the supreme court’s ethics problem — Full Story podcast

    Podcast24:37
  • Samuel and Martha-Ann Alito smiling

    Politics Weekly America
    The Alito flag scandal and the US supreme court’s ethics problem

    Podcast24:41

December 2023

  • In a scene from the film Barbie, Barbie, played by Margot Robbie, and Ken, played by Ryan Gosling, drive through the desert.

    Politics Weekly America
    Revisited: why do Republicans hate the Barbie movie? – podcast

    From August: Jonathan Freedland and Amanda Marcotte try to figure it out why rightwing politicians and pundits took such a disliking to Barbie, Greta Gerwig’s summer blockbuster. They look at what the outrage can tell us about how the Republicans will campaign in 2024
    Podcast30:29

July 2023

  • Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie in front of Barbie promotion poster. Photo by Wiktor Szymanowicz/Anadolu Agency via Getty.

    Politics Weekly America
    Why do Republicans hate the Barbie movie? – podcast

    Is the outrage real or is it just another example of politics employing a culture war to rally the base? Jonathan Freedland and Amanda Marcotte try to figure it out
    Podcast31:25

October 2013

  • Wendy Davis filibuster

    double quotation markThe Texas abortion law is a trial run for the right wing's strategy across America

    Amanda Marcotte
  • A young attendee inspects an assault rifle during the NRA Annual Meeting in Houston, Texas

    double quotation markGuys and guns, boys and toys

    Amanda Marcotte

April 2013

  • The women of Mad Men

    What Mad Men says about women

    The 60s advertising drama takes place during a time of social upheaval, not least for its female characters. We track their progress with the actors who play them

October 2012

  • Silhouette of man

    double quotation markExposing Reddit's purveyors of 'creep shots'

    Amanda Marcotte
  • Friday Night Lights, Connie Britton and Kyle Chandler, as Tami and Coach Eric Taylor

    double quotation markFriday Night Lights and Republicans' misappropriation of the Panthers motto

    Amanda Marcotte

August 2012

  • Todd Akin

    Cif belief
    double quotation markThe Todd Akin school of Christian thought on abortion and rape

    Amanda Marcotte
    Amanda Marcotte: The Republican senate candidate saying rape doesn't cause pregnancy is in line with other wild beliefs of the religious right

May 2012

  • On making change
    double quotation markQ&A with Naomi Wolf and Amanda Marcotte: the war on women

    Naomi Wolf and Amanda Marcotte

    Naomi Wolf and feminist writer Amanda Marcotte discuss with readers the ongoing efforts to restrict abortion access in the US

April 2012

  • John Edwards arrives in court

    double quotation markJohn Edwards' shameful prosecution

    Amanda Marcotte

    Amanda Marcotte: We know the tabloid story; but what's truly tawdry is the Justice Department ignoring real campaign finance crime to pursue him

March 2012

  • Sex in America: live Q&A with Amanda Marcotte and Nancy Cohen

  • abortion Mississippi

    double quotation markWhy anti-choice campaigners won't let science get in their way

    Amanda Marcotte

February 2012

  • Planned Parenthood rally

    double quotation markHow Planned Parenthood won Susan G Komen's 'race for the cure'

    Amanda Marcotte

    Amanda Marcotte: Planned Parenthood's huge public relations win shows the deep support for women's healthcare – defeating the shame-mongers

January 2012

  • Anti-abortion campaigner Randall Terry

    double quotation markRandall Terry's self-promoting Super Bowl fetus ads

    Amanda Marcotte

    Amanda Marcotte: Randall Terry's ruse to get his creepy ads on prime-time TV is ultimately self-defeating, but pity those he dupes to give money

November 2011

  • Gone with the Wind

    Guardian Comment Network
    double quotation markFrankly my dear, we shouldn't give a damn about 'southern gentility'

    Amanda Marcotte for Pandagon, part of the Guardian Comment Network

    Amanda Marcotte for Pandagon: As a Texan, I have grew watching this faux chivalry at first-hand. It is not good manners – it's a cloak for bad behaviour

October 2011

  • A "We are the 99%" protest in Ljubljana, Slovenia

    double quotation markThe US right's response to 'We are the 99%'? 'We are the 53%'

    Amanda Marcotte
    Amanda Marcotte: A Tumblr set up to criticise the Occupy Wall Street and '99%' movement is both strange and shockingly incoherent

September 2011

  • Rick Perry

    double quotation markRick Perry executes justice, Texas-style

    Amanda Marcotte

    Amanda Marcotte: Perry may have lost no sleep over Texas's 234 executions during his tenure, but the death penalty panders to crude bloodlust

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