She Wrote Fake News for Cosmopolitan and Now Regrets Misleading Women on Feminism

Plus: Let's End the CARES Act's Work Disincentive That's Hurting Employers

May 26, 2020   Good morning from Washington, where the women's movement and sexual revolution wrought some regrettable changes in the 1970s. In an exclusive interview, Kelsey Bolar captures one repentant journalist's message to today's young women. Lawmakers should stop encouraging unemployment because of COVID-19, two congressmen write. On the podcast, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers marks a decade of Obamacare failures with a plan for actually improving health care. Plus: a judge's bad ruling on mail-in elections; the coronavirus distinguishes blue and red states; and the media's pursuit of the president. On this date in 1868, by one vote, the Senate acquits President Andrew Johnson of the House's second impeachment charge, just as it had with the first one 10 days earlier.     Special Feature She Wrote Fake News for Cosmopolitan and Now Regrets Misleading Women on Feminism By Kelsey Bolar Sue Ellen Browder, a Cosmopolitan magazine writer for 20 years, describes what she wrote as "propaganda." The goal? To sell women on the idea that sexual liberation is the path to the single woman's personal fulfillment. More Commentary Let's End the CARES Act's Work Disincentive That's Hurting Employers By Rep. Ted Budd Carl Ehlenz, co-owner of Betty's Pies in Minnesota, says his business has struggled to hire employees because they simply can't compete with the generous unemployment benefits people are receiving, sometimes more than 100% of their previous wages. More Analysis A Decade After Obamacare Became Law, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers Is Working to Fix the Issues It Created By Virginia Allen "We have 30 million Americans today that will tell you that they cannot afford their health insurance," says Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers. More Commentary Judges Aren't Kings. This One Didn't Get the Memo. By Zack Smith A Texas judge acknowledges that between 2005 and 2018, the state had 73 prosecutions for voter fraud, but buries in the endnotes that almost half these cases "involved the improper use of absentee ballots, where voter fraud occurs most often." More Commentary Across the Wide, Growing American Divide By Victor Davis Hanson Even blue-staters are beginning to see their mass transit, high-rise living, and clogged streets more as incubators of disease than as the circulatory system of an exciting, high-end life. More Commentary The Game of Truth By Armstrong Williams The media's raison d'etre exists, not in the truth, but solely in opposition. It is as if they have abdicated their roles as fact-finders and investigators and turned into repudiators. More Commentary 10 Key Education Recommendations for Reopening the K-12 Classroom By Lindsey Burke Governors, school districts, and principals should plan to reopen schools safely as soon as possible. Here's how they can balance reopening and safety. More           The Daily Signal is brought to you by more than half a million members of The Heritage Foundation. Donate to The Daily Signal Find us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter How are we doing? We welcome your comments, suggestions, and story tips. Please reply to this email or send us a note at comments@dailysignal.com. The Daily Signal 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 (800) 546-2843     Add morningbell@heritage.org to your address book to ensure that you receive emails from us. You are subscribed to this newsletter as johnmhames1.diogenes--light@blogger.com. If you want to receive other Heritage Foundation newsletters, or opt out of this newsletter, please click here to update your subscription.

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