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Covers:  immigration, women's health, reproductive health, women's rights, journalism, online journalism, gay rights, online politics, media, politics, policy, washington dc, reproductive rights, unemployment
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Megan Carpentier’s Biography

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Megan Carpentier is the executive editor of Raw Story, a progressive daily news site first founded in 2004. Prior to her tenure at Raw Story, she was an associate editor at Talking Points Memo, the editor of news and politics at Air America, an editor at Jezebel.com and an associate editor at Wonkette. Her work has also been published by The Guardian, Bitch Magazine, the Women's Media Center, the Washington Post, Glamour, the NY Press, Bust, On The Issues, Women's eNews, RH Reality Check, Forei…

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How Congress became the boy who cried 'Wolf!' or: How I learned to stop worrying and hate the seq...

How Congress became the boy who cried 'Wolf!' or: How I learned to stop worrying and hate the seq...

Do you even remember the first time Republicans threatened to shut down the government? (The first time, that…

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Same sex couples demand Sen. Chuck Schumer support immigration equality | The Raw Story

Same sex couples demand Sen. Chuck Schumer support immigration equality | The Raw Story

A dozen same sex binational couples from New York - who, because of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) are no…

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'Howl' at the Internet | The Raw Story

'Howl' at the Internet | The Raw Story

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by punditry, screeching uninformed oranged, dragging themselv…

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Man who coined 'Axis of Evil' worries that non-Americans will rape female soldiers if women are a...

Man who coined 'Axis of Evil' worries that non-Americans will rape female soldiers if women are a...

There are around 300,000 women serving in the U.S. Armed Forces (both active duty and reserves) today. As of …

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Linda McMahon puts her fantasy Romney acceptance speech in The Rock's mouth in Tampa | The Raw St...

Linda McMahon puts her fantasy Romney acceptance speech in The Rock's mouth in Tampa | The Raw St...

In wrestling, as in politics, there are good guys and there are bad guys - and the good guys don't always win…

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Anti-abortion activists just picked up punishing women where the law left off | The Raw Story

Anti-abortion activists just picked up punishing women where the law left off | The Raw Story

Forty years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade that women - under limited circumstances based loosel…

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Betrayal of Identity

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| Truthdig Verified
“We are made up of our memories,” Gisèle Pelicot writes in her book “A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides” about her life before and after the revelation that her husband of 50 years, Dominique Pelicot, had spent 10 years drugging her to the point of total incapacitation, raping and inviting 70 other men to rape her with him. “What was I to do with them?
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How to Fight Autocracy, From the Activists Who've Done It

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| The Meteor
BY MEGAN CARPENTIER When Donald Trump vowed in December 2023 to be a dictator “on day one,” his aides later clarified that he “was simply trying to trigger the left and the media.” Nonetheless, exit polls showed that half of voters “said they were ‘very concerned’ that another Trump presidency would bring the U.S. closer to authoritarianism,” even though some voted for him anyway.
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How Pedro Pascal's Smarmy ATF Agent on SVU Got Taken Down By Benson and Stabler

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| National Broadcasting Company (NBC) Verified
Watch the Season 26 premiere of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Thursday, October 3 at 9/8c on NBC. A clean-shaven Pascal played U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Agent Greer (whose first name was never revealed). Greer was a younger agent and a recent transfer to the New York office, having previously served in Laredo, Texas during an agency scandal.
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Interview

Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?

I wrote a couple of articles and then ran into issues with the administration over a piece about censorship in the art department.

What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?

Never work for free, learn to take editorial guidance, know where you are pitching before you pitch and don't take rejection personally.