XX Factor is a blog about politics and other contemporary issues, written by the women of Slate. We cover the political spectrum-OK, more of us lean left than right, but not all of us. We figured with Hillary Clinton running for president, it was time to try a political roundtable of our own, with room for postings about other aspects of the news as well.
Contributors
Anne Applebaum is a Washington Post and Slate columnist. Her most recent book is Gulag: A History.
Emily Bazelon is a Slate senior editor. She edits the magazine's health and law columns, and writes about law and family.
Torie Bosch is a copy editor for Slate and edits the "Faith-Based" and "Medical Examiner" columns.
Susannah Breslin is a freelance journalist. Currently, she is writing a novel about the adult movie industry.
Rosa Brooks is an opinion columnist for the Los Angeles Times and a law professor at Georgetown University. Her Web site is http://www.rosabrooks.com/.
Eve Fairbanks is the New Republic's congressional correspondent. She is a graduate of Yale, where she also studied music.
Bonnie Goldstein is a former special investigator to the U.S. Senate and investigative producer for ABC News.
E.J. Graff is associate director and senior researcher at Brandeis University's Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, where she directs the Gender & Justice Project, and a resident scholar at the Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center, and has published two books, What Is Marriage For? and Getting Even: Why Women Still Don't Get Paid Like Men-and What To Do About It.
Jessica Grose is the managing editor for Double X, the new women's Web magazine that Slate is launching this spring.
Samantha Henig is the associate editor for Double X, the new women's Web magazine that Slate is launching this spring.
Juliet Lapidos is a Slate assistant editor.
Rachael Larimore is Slate's copy chief and deputy managing editor.
Dahlia Lithwick is a Slate senior editor. She covers the Supreme Court and legal issues.
Noreen Malone is Slate's executive assistant.
Melonyce McAfee is a Slate copy editor.
Liza Mundy is a staff writer for the Washington Post, and the author of Everything Conceivable: How a Reproduction is Changing Men, Women, and the World. The paperback will come out in May.
Dayo Olopade is the Washington reporter for The Root, where she covers politics and culture. Previously at the New Republic, she has written for TNR, the Guardian, the Atlantic, the American Prospect, and Transition magazine.
Abigail Pilgrim is a freelance producer for documentary television.
Meghan O'Rourke is Slate's literary editor and the author of Halflife, a collection of poetry.
Willa Paskin is a freelance writer living in New York and former editor of Radar magazine.
Nina Shen Rastogi writes the "Green Lantern" for Slate and contributes regularly to the "Explainer" column.
Hanna Rosin is a contributing editor at the Atlantic. She is the author of God's Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission To Save America, about the next generation of evangelical Christians.
Dana Stevens is Slate's movie critic and a regular participant on the Slate Culture Gabfest.
Ellen Tarlin is a Slate copy editor.
Marjorie Valbrun is a regular contributor for The Root and writes often about the intersection of race and politics, and also about immigration. Her opinion articles have also appeared in the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, and New York Newsday.
Emily Yoffe writes Slate's "Human Guinea Pig" column and is also "Dear Prudence."