The controversial state of the modern Republican Party, and its gradual shift toward far-right conservatism, did not happen overnight. The roots of the Tea Party movement and even Trumpism go back ...

Mrs. America Season 1 isn’t your typical historical drama – it’s a captivating clash of titans, with a conservative housewife named Phyllis Schlafly unexpectedly leading the charge against the ...

Betty Friedan was just a fiery radical with a bad temper. It’s convenient to believe this. But at a moment when many of the rights for women she gained are being overturned, it’s time to reconsider ...

Betty Friedan was just a fiery radical with a bad temper. It’s convenient to believe this. But at a moment when many of the rights for women she gained are being overturned, it’s time to reconsider ...

Tracey Ullman’s brilliant portrait of Betty Friedan in the FX series, Mrs. America features a real-life debate between Friedan and Phyllis Schlafly. Watching it led me to re-assess an interview I did ...

Betty Friedan once snapped at Phyllis Schlafly, "I'd like to burn you at the stake." And this engaging, if flawed, biography of the doyenne of U.S. conservatism during the heated early 1970s makes it ...

Phyllis Schlafly was a political animal in a homemaker's clothing. The tireless right-wing activist enlisted countless stay-at-home mothers to fight the Equal Rights Amendment beginning in 1972, criss ...

Betty Friedan was just a fiery radical with a bad temper. It’s convenient to believe this. But at a moment when many of the rights for women she gained are being overturned, it’s time to reconsider ...