Peg Yorkin was one of the co–founders of the Feminist Majority Foundation and campaigned to bring medication abortion to the U.S. Around the middle of the 20th century, a strange dread fell across many American households, more tangible than the Soviet menace or nuclear annihilation, yet harder to talk about. “Someone like Peg, had she been born later, who knows …
Not all of the Emmy nominations announced last week were accompanied by unanimous congratulations and Champagne toasts. The recognition for ABC’s “Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s ‘All in the Family’ and ‘The Jeffersons,’” a revival of the groundbreaking 1970s comedies, shines a fresh, harsh light on an ugly, largely hidden Hollywood split involving one of the …
