JoAnn Wypijewski

JoAnn Wypijewski is a writer in New York. Contact her at jwyp at earthlink.net.

Currently

  • Sexual Healing

    September 9, 2009

    "Female sexual dysfunction" is a case in point of a runaway medical system that requires huge profits, hence new sicknesses, pills and procedures.

  • Triangles

    July 1, 2009 Subscribe

    The latest political sex scandal isn't a scandal at all but a circumstance as old and common as time.

  • Return of the Fabulous

    May 27, 2009

    In the end, the vote was silly or sad, but for eighteen weeks on American Idol, Adam Lambert was Everyman and Everygayman, skating the edge of ecstasy and terror.

  • Through a Lens Starkly

    April 29, 2009

    A rash of teen "sexting" has turned educators and law enforcement officials into instant oglers, hunting for crimes where none are intended.

  • Sexual Trauma & Repressed Memory

    April 8, 2009 Subscribe

  • Crisis of Faith

    February 25, 2009

    As the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court reviews defrocked priest Paul Shanley's conviction on child rape charges, "repressed memory" will be held up to scientific scrutiny.

2008

  • The Kiss

    December 23, 2008

    Let us pause, amid the muddle of the moment in this season of renewal and fresh starts, to consider fundamental things.

  • Scenes From the Crackup

    October 16, 2008

    Behind the scrim of boom times there was always debt and sex--and the intimate economy of panic and desire.

  • Beauty and the Beast

    September 10, 2008

    The old warrior deploys sex as a central political weapon to recharge his potency and his party's fortunes. Is there a trap here?

  • The Shadow of His Smile

    July 16, 2008

    A desperately needy America warms to the hot married love of Barack and Michelle.

  • Notes on a Scandal

    March 17, 2008

    The Spitzer affair's obvious rationality continues to elude the therapists, sexperts and pundits for whom shame is the game.

  • Postcards From Ohio

    February 28, 2008

    The white working-class vote is on the line--so is the myth of Clinton-era good times.

2007

  • Bad Sex in the City

    December 12, 2007

    There's something untrustworthy about a man who can't conduct a decent affair. Rudy Giuliani never could.

2005

  • States of Disunion

    August 11, 2005

    In the wake of the labor split, nothing revolutionary or even progressive is discernible in this schism.

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Blogs

» The Notion

Injustice in Illinois | Prosecutors in Illinois should be more concerned with an innocent man behind bars than journalism students' grades.
Ari Berman
21 Comments

» The Beat

Double-Digit Unemployment Is Obama's No. 1 Challenge | Job creation is now the top issue in America. The White House and congressional Dems must recognize this or face serious setbacks politically.
John Nichols
104 Comments

» The Dreyfuss Report

Obama Fails in Middle East | Clinton delivers the ultimate diss to Abbas.
Robert Dreyfuss
106 Comments

» Act Now!

Equality Across America | This week, young LBGT activists are staging a National Week of Initiative.
Peter Rothberg
16 Comments

» Altercation

Slacker Thursday | Dying laptops, recapping the election, the Dow, and the Yankees with the World Series.
Eric Alterman

» Editor's Cut

Can We Get Some Small-d Democracy? | Tell your legislators to support the Same Day Registration Act.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
88 Comments