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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

September 2011

  • Rick Perry

    double quotation markRick Perry's demeaning abortion doctrine

    Amanda Marcotte

    Amanda Marcotte: The Texas governor's real anti-abortion agenda – enforcing sexual abstinence – not only insults women; it doesn't work

August 2011

  • Youth Reading in a Library

    double quotation markThe Tea Party moves to ban books

    Amanda Marcotte for Pandagon, part of the Guardian Comment Network
  • Michele Bachmann as featured on the cover of Newsweek magazine

    double quotation markMichele Bachmann's Iowa circus

    Amanda Marcotte

July 2011

  • HARRY POTTER ORDER OF PHOENIX

    Guardian Comment Network
    double quotation markHarry Potter is a badass

    Amanda Marcotte for Pandagon, part of Guardian Comment Network

    Amanda Marcotte for Pandagon: Not only is Harry a jock, his friends also do not fit the traditional 'band of misfits' mode – perhaps this is key to his popularity

June 2011

  • Anthony Weiner, Democratic Representative (New York)

    double quotation markHow 'sex scandal' is sexual harassment

    Amanda Marcotte

    Amanda Marcotte: Behind the rightwing rumour mill about Democratic politicians like Anthony Weiner runs a misogynist phobia of 'loose women'

May 2011

  • John Edwards

    double quotation markJohn Edwards: Democrats' bitterest disappointment

    Amanda Marcotte

    Amanda Marcotte: The likely indictment of John Edwards for misuse of campaign funds is the final blow for a rare champion of economic justice

  • Schwarzenegger and Shriver announce separation

    double quotation markArnold Schwarzenegger, Dominique Strauss-Kahn and how power corrupts

    Amanda Marcotte

    Amanda Marcotte: Men in power inhabit a culture of male entitlement that enables caddishness, but that is no excuse for violent sexual depradation