What Does It Mean to Want a Woman President?

A woman president would make history. That isn’t enough.

New York Magazine
Mar 9, 2020 · 5 min read
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By Sarah Jones

With Elizabeth Warren out of the Democratic primary, matters return to status quo. The party’s next nominee for president will be a man. Online, post-Warren grief converged on those men, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders; on their whiteness and their elderly…

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