Stories by JoAnn Wypijewski
JoAnn Wypijewski, a former senior editor of The Nation, is based in New York City.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Posted on May 10, 2007, Source: The Washington Spectator
In the Army, being injured makes one deserving of cruelty.
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.
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.
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.