The Women Who Saw 9-11 Coming
The Atlantic, November 2023
The Women Code Breakers who Unmasked Soviet Spies
Smithsonian Magazine September 2018
How the CIA’s top-ranking woman beat the agency’s men at their own game
Washington Post, October 21, 2023
Don’t Underrate the Political Spouse
The Atlantic, May 2021
The Woman Who Made Modern Journalism
The Atlantic, January/February 2020
Elizabeth Warren’s Stealth Feminism
Politico Magazine, December 13, 2019
Female Spies and Their Secrets
The Atlantic, June 2019
Anna Mae Hays: The Nurse Who became America’s First Female General
Politico Magazine, December 30, 2018
I Rewatched Anita Hill’s Testimony. So Much Has Changed. So Much Hasn’t.
Politico Magazine, September 23, 2018
Jeannie Rousseau de Clarens: The Glass Ceiling-Breaking Spy
Politico Magazine, December 28, 2017
Why is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women?
The Atlantic, April 2017
The Secret History of Women in the Senate
Politico Magazine, January/February 2015
The New Power Wives of Capitol Hill
Politico Magazine, July/August 2014
The Gay Guide to Wedded Bliss
The Atlantic, June 2013
Atlantic:
Playing the Granny Card
Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, Angela Merkel, Christine Lagarde: Is a generation of powerful women turning age into an advantage?
Cracking the Bamboo Ceiling
Can Asian American men learn from Lean In?
Daddy Track: The Case for Paternity Leave
It makes men more involved at home, women more involved at work, and workplaces friendlier for all parents.
Losing is the New Winning
How we came to fetishize failure
Foxy Ladies: Why One Network Applies so Much Makeup
Why one network applies so much makeup
The New York Times:
Women Cracked Wartimes Codes. They Can Fix Tech Today Too
Politico:
The Secret History of the Female Code Breakers Who Helped Defeat the Nazis
Wendy Davis, the Most Judged Woman in America
Wendy Davis did make a mistake. She thought that we were ready for a single mother.
Monica Lewinsky, Reconsidered
Hillary Clinton, Rand Paul and the new politics of an old sex scandal.
The Secret History of the Women in the Senate
The New Power Wives of Capitol Hill
Forget the insipid ladies lunching clichés. These women are outearning their husbands—Republicans too.
Mother Jones:
Souls on Ice
America’s Embryo Glut and the Wasted Promise of Stem Cell Research
Washington Post (selected):
Vagina, a New Biography by Naomi Wolf (book review)
The Obamas, by Jodi Kantor (book review)
Orly Taitz’s Crusade to Challenge President Obama’s Legitimacy (profile of one of the country’s leading “birthers”)
Maternal Truth (a piece about open adoption)
The Vow (a piece about spousal caregiving)
The Cat Will Play… (a piece about parental hovering)
Maternal Truths (asking the eternal question: Should you tell your own children the terrible and illicit things you yourself got up to, as a youth?)
A Series of Fortunate Events (2007 profile of then-Democratic presidential primary contender Barack Obama)
Can One Household Save the Planet? (in which I and my family tried to go green)
Power Player (anniversary exploration of “Mr Smith Goes to Washington,” the classic cleaning-up-Washington movie, it origins and impact)
A World of Their Own (profile of a deaf couple, women, who set out to have a deaf baby through assisted reproduction)
Mr. Resident (2002 profile of Al Gore)
Slate:
Rosie the Programmer: The Feminist Tech Pioneers of World War II
Any Man-Made Code Can Be Broken By A Woman
Time:
The Forgotten Women Who Helped Create the Field of Cybersecurity