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Sarada Peri is a speechwriter and communications strategist, and was a senior speechwriter for President Barack Obama.

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opinion

The Sexist Double Standard Behind the Medicare-for-All Fight

‘I DON’T THINK I HAVE TO DO THAT’

It is hard to imagine a scenario where Warren could have been comfortable saying, as Sanders has, that “I don’t think I have to do that right now.”

Sarada Peri | Published Nov 13, 2019
opinion

Know-Nothing Ben Carson Is a Threat to Our Democracy

SHEER IDIOCY

Much has been made of Trump’s kleptocracy, but the ignorance of his appointees—like Carson, whose decisions affect millions of people—is equally insidious.

Sarada Peri | Published May 22, 2019
opinion

Powerful Men Keep Complaining That They’re Being Bullied

SNOWFLAKES, ALL OF THEM

Howard Schultz isn’t being treated unfairly. He’s being treated just as any presidential aspirant should be.

Sarada Peri | Published Feb 01, 2019
opinion

In Attacking Ford, Men Defend the Humiliations of Girlhood

BOYS WILL BE BOYS

The acceptance of small early degradations of girls seeds a permission structure for some men to pursue some women more violently and, it would seem, think nothing of it.

Sarada Peri | Published Sep 28, 2018
opinion

Hillary's Issue Wasn’t Emails—It Was Challenging Stereotypes

BUT HER EMAILS

Trump's behavior shows just how gendered criticism against Clinton was in the last election.

Sarada Peri | Published Sep 01, 2018
opinion

Shame on Us for Ever Thinking Trump Would Not Threaten Roe

FOOL ME ONCE

Some Democrats deluded themselves into believing that a cosmopolitan former Democrat would never cross certain lines.

Sarada Peri | Published Jul 06, 2018

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