Going Rouge (28 page)

Gloria Steinem launched the feminist
Ms.
magazine. She has authored
Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
and more recently,
Doing Sixty and Seventy.

Matt Taibbi works at
Rolling Stone
where he authors a column, “Road Rage.” He also recently joined True/Slant as a blogger. His most recent book is titled
The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics & Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire.

Michael Tomasky is the editor in chief of
Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
, editor of
Guardian America
, and a contributing editor for the
American Prospect
.

Rebecca Traister is a senior writer at Salon. She has freelanced for
Elle
, the
Nation
, the
New York Times
, and
Glamour
. Her new book
Big Girls Don’t Cry
, about women and the 2008 presidential election, will be published in fall 2010 by the Free Press at Simon & Schuster.

Jessica Valenti is the founder and editor of the popular blog Feministing.com, and the author of:
Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminism Matters
and
He’s a Stud, She’s a Slut... 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know.

Patricia J. Williams is a professor of law at Columbia University. Her publications include
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave
and
We Are Not Married: A Journal of Musings on Legal Language and the Ideology of Style
.

JoAnn Wypijewski is a columnist for
Mother Jones
and formerly an editor at the
Nation
. She is the editor of
Painting by Numbers: Komar and Melamid’s Scientific Guide to Art
, and
The Thirty Years Wars: Dispatches and Diversions of a Radical Journalist, 1965–1994.

Gary Younge is a fellow at the Nation Institute. He is also the New York correspondent for the
Guardian
and the author of
No Place Like Home: A Black Briton’s Journey
through the Deep South
and
Stranger in a Strange Land: Travels in the Disunited States.

CREDITS

JoAnn Wypijewski’s “Beauty and the Beast” reprinted with permission from the September 10, 2008, issue of the
Nation
and TheNation.com.

Jane Mayer’s “The Insiders: How John McCain came to pick Sarah Palin” reprinted with permission courtesy of Jane Mayer. Originally published in the October 16, 2008, issue of the
New Yorker
.

Gloria Steinem’s “Palin: Wrong Woman, Wrong Message” from September 4, 2008, reprinted with permission courtesy of Gloria Steinem. Originally published in the
LA Times.

Max Blumenthal and David Neiwert’s “Meet Sarah Palin’s Radical Right-Wing Pals” first appeared in Salon on October 10, 2008, at www.Salon.com. An online version remains in the Salon archives. Reprinted with permission.

Michelle Goldberg’s “Palin’s Party: Her Religious Right Roots” reprinted with permission from the September 24 , 2008, issue of the
Nation
and TheNation.com.

Mark Hertsgaard’s “Our Polar Bears, Ourselves” from September 12, 2008, reprinted with permission courtesy of Mark Hertsgaard. Originally published in the
Nation
.

Michael T. Klare’s “Palin’s Petropolitics” reprinted with permission from the September 17, 2008, issue of the
Nation
and TheNation.com.

Sheila Kaplan and Marilyn Berlin Snell’s “Northern Exposure: Sarah Palin’s Toxic Paradise” from October 22, 2008, reprinted by permission of the
New Republic
, © 2008, TNR II, LLC.

John Nichols’s “Why Troopergate Matters” reprinted with permission from the September 24, 2008, issue of the
Nation
and TheNation.com.

Brentin Mock’s “Examining Palin’s Record on Violence Against Women,” reprinted with permission from the
American Prospect
: September 18, 2008. www.prospect.org. The American Prospect, 1710 Rhode Island Avenue, NW, 12th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20036. All rights reserved.

Elstun Lauesen’s “Palin Enthusiastically Practices Socialism, Alaska-Style” from November 7, 2008 reprinted with permission courtesy of Elstun Lauesen.

Hart Seely’s “The Poetry of Palin” first appeared in Slate on October 1, 2008. Reprinted with permission.

Katha Pollitt’s “Sarah Palin, Affirmative Action Babe” reprinted with permission from the September 24, 2008, issue of the
Nation
and TheNation.com.

Jessica Valenti’s “The F-Card Won’t Wash” copyright Guardian News & Media Ltd. 2008.

Amy Alexander’s “Sarah’s Steel Ones” reprinted with permission from the September 12, 2008, issue of the
Nation
and TheNation.com.

Linda Hirshman’s “Sarah Palin, Mean Girl” reprinted with permission from the October 3, 2008, issue of the
Nation
and TheNation.com.

Amanda Fortini’s “The ‘Bitch’ and the ‘Ditz,’ ” appeared in the November 16, 2008, issue of
New York
magazine. Reprinted with permission.

Dana Goldstein’s “The Elephant in the Room,” reprinted with permission from the
American Prospect
, September 3, 2008. www.prospect.org. The American Prospect, 1710 Rhode Island Avenue, NW, 12th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20036. All rights reserved.

Hanna Rosin’s “What Scarlet Letter?” first appeared in Slate on September 4, 2008. Reprinted with the author’s permission.

Gary Younge’s “Sarah Palin’s Shotgun Politics” reprinted with permission from the September 3, 2008, issue of the
Nation
and TheNation.com.

Patricia J. Williams’s “Sarah Palin’s Frontier Justice” reprinted with permission from the September 3, 2008, issue of the
Nation
and TheNation.com.

Tom Perrotta’s “The Sexy Puritan” first appeared in Slate on September 26, 2008. Reprinted with the author’s permission.

Max Blumenthal’s “The Witch-Hunter Anoints Sarah Palin” reprinted with permission from the September 24, 2008, issue of the
Nation
and TheNation.com.

Jeff Sharlet’s “Sarah Palin, American” reprinted with permission courtesy of Religion Dispatches.

Matt Taibbi’s “Mad Dog Palin” from
Rolling Stone
, October 2, 2008 © Rolling Stone LLC 2008. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission.

Jim Hightower’s “Sarah Palin’s Faux Populism” reprinted with permission courtesy of Jim Hightower.

Katrina vanden Heuvel’s “The Sarah Palin Smokescreen” reprinted with permission from the September 4, 2008, issue of the
Nation
and TheNation.com.

Thomas Frank’s “The GOP Loves the Heartland to Death” reprinted with permission courtesy of Thomas Frank.

Naomi Klein’s “Capitalism, Sarah Palin–Style” reprinted with permission courtesy of Naomi Klein. Speech originally printed in
The Progressive
magazine, August 2009.

Eve Ensler’s “Drill, Drill, Drill” reprinted with permission courtesy of Eve Ensler.

Juan Cole’s “Sarah Palin, Meet Mahmoud Ahmadinejad” first appeared in Salon on August 3, 2009, at www.Salon.com. An online version remains in the Salon archives. Reprinted with permission.

“Sarah Palin’s Nine Most Disturbing Beliefs” reprinted with permission courtesy of AlterNet.

Michelle Goldberg’s “Flirting Her Way to Victory,” Copyright Guardian News & Media Ltd. 2008.

Emily Bazelon’s “The Un-Hillary: Why Watching Sarah Palin Is Agony for Women” first appeared in Slate on October 1, 2008. Reprinted with permission.

Rebecca Traister’s “The Sarah Palin Pity Party” first appeared in Salon on September 30, 2008, at www.Salon.com. An online version remains in the Salon archives. Reprinted with permission.

Katha Pollitt’s “Sayonara, Sarah” reprinted with permission from the November 6, 2008, issue of the
Nation
and TheNation.com.

Dahlia Lithwick’s “Lost in Translation: Why Sarah Palin Really Quit Us” first appeared in Slate on July 8, 2009. Reprinted with permission.

Frank Rich’s “She Broke the GOP and Now She Owns It” reprinted with permission courtesy of the
New York Times
.

Joe Conason’s “The Losers Who Gave Us Sarah Palin” first appeared in Salon on July 10, 2009, at www.Salon.com. An online version remains in the Salon archives. Reprinted with permission.

Rick Perlstein’s “Beyond the Palin” reprinted with permission courtesy of
Newsweek
.

Robert Reich’s “Sarah Palin’s Death Panels” reprinted with permission courtesy of Robert Reich.

Twelve articles in this anthology were reprinted with kind permission from the
Nation
and TheNation.com.