Michelle Goldberg

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Psychologist John Gottman said that nothing is so destructive to a marriage as contempt. Couples can come back from many sorts of conflicts, but not festering disgust--a sense, by one or both people, that the other is beneath them. That's why, if blue and red America were spouses, the relationship would look hopeless. Call it irreconcilable differences.

By Psychologist John Gottman said that nothing is so destructive to a marriage as contempt.

“There’s probably no way for red and blue America to get free of each other, not without a level of bloodshed and ruination that would leave everyone far worse off than we are now,” Goldberg writes.

Republicans hold their trolls close. For Democrats, it’s more complicated.

It is frustrating and unjust that Abdul El-Sayed’s relationship with leftist influencer Hasan Piker has become a discourse bonanza, while Donald Trump’s relationship with right-wing influencer Laura Loomer is treated as old news.

It is frustrating and unjust that Abdul El-Sayed's relationship with leftist influencer Hasan Piker has become a discourse bonanza, while Donald Trump's relationship with right-wing influencer Laura Loomer is treated as old news.

What a wretched time for Gloria Steinem to die. Had Steinem, an icon of second-wave feminism, left us a decade ago, the arc of her life would have seemed one of unequivocal triumph.

Steinem has died at the end of a decade that undid some of what she struggled for.

What a wretched time for Gloria Steinem to die, at the end of a decade that undid some of what she struggled for. We are ruled by a thuggish cabal of cartoon misogynists.