Stories by JoAnn Wypijewski

JoAnn Wypijewski, a former senior editor of The Nation, is based in New York City.subscribe to JoAnn Wypijewski's rss feed

From Palin to Perry: The GOP Shifts From Sexual Spark to Empty Machismo

Posted on Sep 25, 2011, Source: The Nation

If Palin was on the McCain ticket for her sizzle, Perry might be on the next ticket for his faux cowboy image, just four years after the last Texan in a cowboy hat.

"The Penis Was Their God": What Aliens Would Think of Our Juvenile Obsessions

Posted on Jun 17, 2011, Source: The Nation

When it comes to the Internet fantasyland, people are way ahead of politicians and the press in sorting out the relationship between individual secrets and social honesty.

Masturbation Finally out of The Closet, If Not Exactly into The Streets

Posted on Oct 7, 2010, Source: The Nation

Maybe we can finally be done with shame, and with the coy and irksome way the press talks about this very homely pleasure.

Why Is Big Pharma Trying to Tell You How to Have Sex?

Posted on Sep 14, 2009, Source: The Nation

Female sexual dysfunction was wholly created by drug companies hoping to make even bigger money off women than they have off men.

Why the Left Looks Like a Big Hypocrite in the Sanford Affair

Posted on Jul 3, 2009, Source: The Nation

Sanford is no more of a moralist than those in the party of Barack and Bill, the party of "don't ask, don't tell" and the Defense of Marriage Act.

Super Prude Prosecutors Charge Teenagers with Pornography and Worse For Sexy Text Messages

Posted on May 1, 2009, Source: The Nation

Sending a nude or semi-nude picture to a friend's cell phone is apparently a crime -- if you're a teen.

Sex Economy Goes Limp

Posted on Oct 17, 2008, Source: The Nation

Lesson from the crash: for the rich, happiness used to be an expensive erection away. Now, everybody's fucked.

Sex Is McCain's Political Weapon

Posted on Sep 12, 2008, Source: The Nation

McCain needed Sarah Palin, icon of sex -- not gender -- to recharge his potency and the cultural oomph of the right.

Was the Clinton Era Good for the Working Class? Ohio Primary Will Tell

Posted on Mar 1, 2008, Source: The Nation

The blue collar vote is on the line in the Buckeye State -- and so is the myth of Clinton-era good times.

What Giuliani's Sleazy Sex Life Tells Us About Him

Posted on Dec 18, 2007, Source: TheNation.com

There's something untrustworthy about a man who can't conduct a decent affair -- Rudy Giuliani never could.

Trained to Harm: How the Military Abuses Its Own

Posted on May 10, 2007, Source: The Washington Spectator

In the Army, being injured makes one deserving of cruelty.

Killed by the U.S. Army

Posted on May 9, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Pvt. Scarano once called himself a "living symbol" of the failure of the Army's rehabilitation system. Now he's a dead symbol.

Rainbow's Gravity

Posted on Jul 26, 2004, Source: The Nation

Jesse Jackson's campaigns for the presidency in '84 and '88 changed the Democratic party in ways we can still see today.

Audacity on Trial

Posted on Aug 14, 2001, Source: The Nation

The only thing stronger than racism in South Carolina is the hatred of unions. And so the Charleston Five -- black Longshoremen arrested on trumped up charges -- need all the help they can get.
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