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Moira Donegan

Moira Donegan was an Assistant Editor at the New Republic. Her writing has appeared in n+1, the London Review of Books, and NewYorker.com.

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October 25, 2017
Moira Donegan
The undocumented teenager in the Trump administration’s crosshairs finally obtained her abortion.
October 19, 2017
Moira Donegan
The Department of Justice wants to force a teenager to give birth.
August 15, 2017
Moira Donegan
Why is the FBI creating extremists instead of catching them?
July 27, 2017
Moira Donegan
Jeff Sessions wants to make sure that you can be fired for being gay.
July 5, 2017
Moira Donegan
The Watermelon Woman Shows the Power of Gay History
Twenty years after its release, Cheryl Dunye's black lesbian masterpiece is as revealing as ever.
May 11, 2017
Moira Donegan
Trump’s “voter fraud” commission is being led by the GOP’s self-deportation architect.
Kris Kobach of Kansas is set to lead the new "Election Integrity" commission. That should terrify everyone.
April 18, 2017
Moira Donegan
How Trump’s Tax Returns Became a Liberal Fantasy
There is a desperate belief that we’re just one more disclosure away from bringing down the president.
March 13, 2017
Moira Donegan
The Abominable Legacy of Gay-Conversion Therapy
Joseph Nicolosi, one of the pioneers of the practice, died last week. But his contribution to the field of psychology lives on.
February 22, 2017
Moira Donegan
What the Culture Wars Did to Norma McCorvey
The life of the anonymous plaintiff in Roe v. Wade is a lesson in what happens when a complex individual becomes a political pawn.
August 25, 2016
Moira Donegan
Wife Rage
Jill Soloway's 'I Love Dick' puts female humiliation and fury at the center of a feminist classic.
June 29, 2016
Moira Donegan
Christina Crosby’s Impossible Memoir of Pain
When Crosby was paralyzed by an accident, both she and her friend Maggie Nelson reckoned with it in their writing.

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