The XX Factor : Wright

Don't Write Women—or That Woman—Off Yet

Lauren Sandler — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:02:00 GMT

Emily , I'm with you. This campaign was about the right leader at the right time: It's really only been since we went to the polls that breaking the racial barrier has become the euphoric narrative of the election. Exit polls and popular discourse suggested...(read more)

Loving and the Campaign

Emily Yoffe — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:07:00 GMT

We surely haven't heard the last of the Rev. Wright problem, but after the Obama campaign has been focused on fighting off the notion that Obama is part of this country's deep racial divide, it did feel good to hear him talk again of it being time to...(read more)

Obama Hits the Reset Button

Melinda Henneberger — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:15:00 GMT

Nothing like a good welfare-mom-makes-good story, Emily ; look what it did for J.K. Rowling. And though Obama's mom (and everybody else's, for that matter) was obviously so much more than that, this is just the kind of pithy, shorthand description that...(read more)