Snapshot · The Bulwark Podcast
A fringe but growing movement among right-wing figures is calling for repeal of the 19th Amendment — passed 106 years ago — claiming it empowered emotion over order in politics.
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Jane Coaston leads on Caitlin Clark, issuing a challenge: of all the men passionately defending Clark, how many can name another white heterosexual WNBA player, let alone any WNBA player? Tim Miller concedes he looked up Clark's actual stats — she is the second leading scorer on the Indiana Fever, who are in third place in the conference — and frames her as the 'Jamal Murray of the WNBA' right now: good, not transcendent, with room to grow. He notes that if the Fever win a title and Clark has a Jalen Brunson run, she will receive appropriate recognition. Coaston calls out the lesbophobia subtext: older white men writing permission slips for themselves to attack WNBA players they frame as being mean to the one straight woman on the court. Both hosts agree the WNBA has a legitimate, separate problem with foul-calling inconsistency — calling both the Angel Reese-Brittney Griner incident and the broader pattern of either over-officiating or under-officiating — that has nothing to do with Clark specifically.
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