Irin Carmon has been a features writer at New York Magazine since 2018 with a particular interest in gender, reproduction, and the law. She is co-author of the New York Times best-selling book Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Her next book, to be published in 2025 by Simon & Schuster, is Unbearable: Being Pregnant in America.
What Was the Washington Post Afraid Of?About to publish an investigation of a powerful executive’s alleged sexual misconduct, the newspaper pulled back. Irin Carmon tries to understand why.
Brett Kavanaugh’s Familiar LogicHis kind of misdirection, the assumption that women are tricked into acting in a way inconvenient to the powerful, is a tactic we’ve seen before.