After the 2017 Women’s March, women kept stopping Cecile Richards on the street, on the subway, at events. They all had the same question: “‘What am I supposed to do now? I’ve marched, I’ve called my member of Congress, but I know there’s more I can do,’ ” says Richards, who …
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“I feel like I haven’t used the bathroom at Veselka since the Nineties, but I’m going to go for it,” Natasha Lyonne announces from within an aura of red curls and cigarette smoke when she arrives at the Ukrainian eatery in New York’s East Village one night in December. She …
Read More »The First Time: Brandi Carlile
The first album Brandi Carlile ever purchased was Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, on cassette, when she was about 14. Unfortunately, she didn’t get to listen to it long — as she reveals in Rolling Stone‘s “The First Time” video series, some kids “ruined it on the school bus …
Read More »Dr. Leana Wen Wants to Tackle the Ills in the Health Care System
Sometimes when Dr. Leana Wen thinks about how public policies affect private lives, she thinks of little scraps of paper. In September, four months after Cecile Richards stepped down as president of Planned Parenthood, Wen, 36, became the first physician in almost 50 years to hold that role, and the …
Read More »Amanda Gorman Is on a Mission
When Amanda Gorman was in high school, a teacher gave her some advice: “Don’t let school get in the way of your education.” By the time she was 16, Gorman was already a youth delegate for the United Nations, on her way to publishing her first book of poetry, The …
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