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Michelle Goldberg is a senior contributing writer for The Daily Beast. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism and The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World, winner of the 2008 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award and the Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize. Goldberg’s work has appeared in Glamour, Rolling Stone, The Nation, New York magazine, The Guardian, and The New Republic. Her next book is about the world-traveling adventuress, actress, and yoga evangelist Indra Devi.

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In Defense of Jonathan Franzen

TWITTER LOSSES

Jonathan Franzen is in a fracas over his comments deploring the Internet and social media. Michelle Goldberg says we should admit we’re losing something important.

Michelle Goldberg | Published Sep 26, 2013

The Dark Side of Homeschooling

Because educating kids at home is almost entirely unregulated in much of the country, parents are able to hide their crimes—sometimes fatally.

Michelle Goldberg | Published Sep 20, 2013

Battling Abortion With Boredom

Clinics are being regulated out of existence with rules about hallway width, the size of procedure rooms, and vast amounts of other red tape.

Michelle Goldberg | Published Sep 09, 2013

What’s the Matter With Mississippi?

A World Apart

Mississippi’s governor comes out with some bad ideas for women. Michelle Goldberg reports.

Michelle Goldberg | Published Jun 07, 2013

Why Women Went to Kermit Gosnell

DESPERATE TIMES

Gosnell’s clinic is no argument against legal abortion. Michelle Goldberg on why the right has it wrong.

Michelle Goldberg | Published May 13, 2013

Abortion's Foes Twist Logic in Gosnell Case

DIRTY BUSINESS

Anti-abortion activists are using a woman’s death to argue for more regulations. But it was the over-regulation of abortion that led her to Gosnell’s unsafe clinic to begin with.

Michelle Goldberg | Published Apr 25, 2013

Homeschooled Kids, Now Grown, Blog Against the Past

REBELLION

They were homeschooled in Christian families to be dutiful, have many children, and follow tradition. But now they are taking to the Internet to expose their painful pasts.

Michelle Goldberg | Published Apr 11, 2013

The Absurd Sandberg Backlash

Feminist Business

<p>Columnists are mercilessly attacking Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s new book, <i>Lean In</i>. Michelle Goldberg says they might be surprised to find that her ideas are reasonable, thoughtful—and necessary.</p>

Michelle Goldberg | Published Mar 01, 2013

Abortion Pivot? No Problem!

Canny Shift

<p>The right is likely to cut him some slack on his abortion and birth control shift because he needs to close the gender gap to win—and because that win could easily mean the end of <i>Roe v. Wade</i>, says Michelle Goldberg.</p>

Michelle Goldberg | Published Oct 18, 2012

The GOP’s Delusional Night

Denial
Michelle Goldberg | Published Oct 17, 2012

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