Laura Olin

You don’t actually have to stay on Twitter. First, allow me to share my credentials: ▪️ I met my now-husband on Twitter. At our wedding, half the toasts mentioned me tweeting. I’m not particularly proud of this (what a sad thing to be known to be obsessed with) but I’m mentioning it for cred. ▪️ Professionally, I’ve worked on or with Twitter for most of the last 16 years.

What might change if we told girls—and ourselves—the truth about how sexist America is? I had the thought after watching Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts senator who’s running for president, answer a young woman’s question during a recent televised town hall in New England. “Some people have voiced you getting ‘Hillaried’ in the election,” college student Ellie Taylor said.

Fifty-nine years ago today, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin sat at his command desk, having completed the first outer space orbit of Earth on April 12, 1961. He died in 1968, when his fighter jet crashed during a routine training flight. Courtesy of Science & Society Picture Library/Getty Images The first installment of our biweekly column. For years now, we’ve admired Laura Olin’s regular email dispatches on the best stories, videos, Twitter threads—you name it—circulating on the internet.