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Michelle Legro

Michelle Legro is a contributing editor at the New Republic.

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January 22, 2017
Michelle Legro, Nina Berman
“I Needed to Do Something”
Voices from the Women’s March on Washington.
December 21, 2016
Michelle Legro
Donald Trump’s next cabinet pick might be a legitimately interesting person: an erotica author.
December 9, 2016
Michelle Legro
The first act of the Trump administration will be to build a wall around women.
July 29, 2016
Michelle Legro
Four Days in Philadelphia
Photographer Susan Meiselas documented four days of protest and unity at the Democratic National Convention
July 21, 2016
Michelle Legro
Four Days in Cleveland
Photographer Ron Haviv documented four unpredictable days at the Republican National Convention.
June 15, 2016
Michelle Legro
Get ready for a debate about women and the draft that will surely not become sexist in any way.
June 13, 2016
Michelle Legro
Perhaps the key to success on Broadway really is hard work.
June 12, 2016
Michelle Legro
Tonight’s Tony Awards will be dedicated to the victims of the Orlando shooting.
June 10, 2016
Michelle Legro
Follow That Hamilton!
This weekend, photographer Jackson Krule pursues the musical as it makes its long-awaited journey to the Tony Awards.
June 2, 2016
Michelle Legro
Now would be the perfect time for an art heist.
June 1, 2016
Michelle Legro
Billionaire Elizabeth Holmes is now worth virtually nothing.
April 21, 2016
Michelle Legro
It turns out there was a real possibility of death while looking at Damien Hirst’s The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living.
April 19, 2016
Michelle Legro
Marissa Mayer leans in all the way to a possible $137 million buyout from Yahoo.
April 1, 2016
Michelle Legro
The patent system is failing women when over 90 percent of patents are held by men.
March 28, 2016
Michelle Legro
Ruth Bader Ginsburg to preside over Venice vs. Shylock.
March 7, 2016
Michelle Legro
In 1990, American Psycho was almost pulled for its misogynist content.
March 7, 2016
Michelle Legro
The Dead of Downton Abbey
The final years of the series failed to deliver any substantial plot—what it gave us instead was time.
February 29, 2016
Michelle Legro
We should all be so lucky to enjoy a mid-day “glove lunch” with Kate McKinnon’s Carol.
February 16, 2016
Michelle Legro
Here’s how Lin-Manuel Miranda can EGOT.
February 9, 2016
Michelle Legro
Kim Kardashian is still better at Twitter than ISIS, says the State Department.

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