| It just so happens that two women, prominent in two very different ways, are facing criminal trial right now on two opposite coasts for two very different crimes. But they are mounting, as columnist Molly Roberts points out, a very similar — and very pernicious — defense: The men made them do it. In California, Elizabeth Holmes is accused of defrauding investors in her failed blood-testing start-up, Theranos. In New York, Ghislaine Maxwell is charged with helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually assault girls as young as 14. Each claims she was in thrall to controlling men. Roberts isn't buying it. "False feminism always hurts the cause of gender equality," she writes. "Here, the suggestion that a woman guilty of wrongdoing can only ever have been under the control of a man deprives all women of agency. After all, to become less culpable, they must also become less capable. It's an appeal to prejudice masquerading as progressivism."  (Jane Rosenberg/Reuters) Women can be evil, too. By Molly Roberts ● Read more » | | | | The real scandal is that Silicon Valley investors bought her magic act. By David Von Drehle ● Read more » | | | | Her rights were all the alienable kind, it turned out. By Alexandra Petri ● Read more » | | | Last time we underreacted to covid-19. That didn't work. By Kathleen Parker ● Read more » | | | | Less than a year from the midterms, the GOP bandwagon gathers speed. By James Hohmann ● Read more » | | | | Reports of the Russian buildup on Ukraine's border couldn't come at a worse time for the Biden administration's efforts to improve relations with Vladimir Putin. By David Ignatius ● Read more » | | | | If the authorities in blue states and cities where the crime is largely occurring can't control it, they — and the Democratic party — will deserve whatever political punishment they get. By Charles Lane ● Read more » | | | CEO Jack Dorsey's departure does nothing to resolve the tension that has held back the social media platform. By Megan McArdle ● Read more » | | | | For the sake of the Senate, end the partisan filibuster. By Henry Olsen ● Read more » | | | | Democrats' threat to chip away at the filibuster may be keeping the minority leader up nights. By Paul Waldman and Greg Sargent ● Read more » | | | Space Force general: China and Russia are attacking U.S. space assets "every day." By Josh Rogin ● Read more » | | | | It's playing out at every level and in every available forum. And if the country is the real victim, so be it. By Paul Waldman ● Read more » | | | | Just-released documents detail the anchor's involvement in the political activities of his brother, former New York governor Andrew Cuomo. By Erik Wemple ● Read more » | | | |
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