Digby, the Assault on Women

March 6, 2012

Hullabaloo blogger and Majority Report favorite Digby (@digby56) joins Sam to talk about the unrelenting attacks on women and women’s rights. Click thru for links and a show UPDATE.  Use this post as today’s thread.

American ranks behind Bangladesh, Sudan, the UAE in female legislative representation worldwide.  Here’s a link to Leslie Bennett’s article from the Daily Beast on “Women and the Leadership Gap”.

Read about Griswold v. Connecticut

Chris Matthews to Erin Burnett, “You’re a knock-out!”

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Past Episodes

It's our last Best of 2025 episode. We will be back live on Monday. Live-streamed on May 12, 2025 Sam speaks to Mark Blyth to help unpack Trump’s topsy turvy tariff policy and how it relates to inflation. Blyth is the Director of The William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and ...
It's another Best of 2025 episode On today's program: Live-streamed on April 17, 2025 Emma is joined by writer, activist and professor Naomi Klein about her new essay The rise of end times fascism. Naomi points out the new form that right wing authoritarianism has taken in finding ways to ...
On today's Best of 2025, Sam and Emma speak with Kellie Carter Jackson, associate professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College, to discuss her recent book We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance.   The Congress switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. You can use this ...