Melissa McEwan is a freelance writer and founder of the progressive blog Shakespeare's Sister
January 2013
Chicago mom who lost four children to gun violence asks when will US wake up
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Melissa McEwan: The gun lobby's resistance to meaningful gun control will leave more dead and mothers like Shirley Chambers mourning
May 2011
MSNBC's double standard on Ed Schultz's 'slut' disgrace
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Melissa McEwan: MSNBC acts righteous at the sexist slur against Laura Ingraham, but the liberal network is a repeat enabler of casual misogyny
December 2010
Elizabeth Edwards: anything but victim
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Melissa McEwan: The fact that she was forced to transcend the role of 'political wife' only underlines the dignity and strength she did it with
October 2010
Sex in the US: the shocking truth
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Melissa McEwan: The way a survey is reported, you'd think it's a surprise anyone's having any. This hypocritical puritanism poisons public discourse
May 2010
A 'lynch mob' for Polanski? Where?
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Melissa McEwan: Robert Harris is concerned that the media is out to get Roman Polanski – but his own argument doesn't add up
March 2010
Utah bill reduces women to incubators
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Melissa McEwan: It's already hard to get an abortion in Utah. Now a new bill opens the door to prosecuting women who 'intentionally' miscarry
February 2010
liberty central
Free speech wasn't meant for this
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Melissa McEwan: Scott Roeder's YouTube interview allows the man who killed Dr George Tiller to justify and spread his message of violent hatred
January 2010
Mixing a Super Bowl of manipulation
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Melissa McEwan: An anti-abortion ad, to be shown to millions during American sports' prime time, hinges upon a deliberate distortion
December 2009
Goodbye to the noughties
I've changed my mind about attitudes to gay marriage
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Melissa McEwan: Goodbye to the noughties: I had to revise my views about the hope for same-sex marriage when two north American cities legalised it in the same week
November 2009
Sarah Palin, plain boring
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Mourning gay marriage in Maine
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October 2009
The healthcare that isn't
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Melissa McEwan: US health insurers can define domestic violence as a 'pre-existing condition' and refuse to pay to treat its victims
September 2009
Roman Polanski's life of crime
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Melissa McEwan: Roman Polanski pleaded guilty to unlawful sex with a 13-year-old. Being a brilliant artist doesn't change or excuse that fact
Dirty Dancing, feminist masterpiece
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Melissa McEwan: Patrick Swayze's film delivered a subversive counter-narrative to the things I was taught as a teenager about women and sex
Dynasties and double standards
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Melissa McEwan: From Hillary Clinton to Caroline Kennedy to Jenna Bush, people seem to object most strongly to nepotism if women benefit
August 2009
Misogyny, up close and personal
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Pull the plug on Senator Death Panel
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July 2009
George Bush's sex education failure
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Palin could be crazy like a fox
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June 2009
Mark Sanford needs a new faith
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Melissa McEwan: The threat of eternal damnation didn't help the governor of South Carolina to keep his pants on
