JoAnn Wypijewski

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

Currently

  • Triangles

    July 1, 2009

    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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» Act Now!

Defining Patriotism | What do you value in the traditions of your country?
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» Editor's Cut

Rediscovering Secular America | This Fourth of July those who identify themselves as non-believers have much cause for celebration.
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» The Beat

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John Nichols
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» The Notion

Celebrating the Fourth by Remembering the Fifth | On Independence Day, the forgotten and imperiled Fifth Amendment bears honoring.
Eyal Press
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» Altercation

Mikey 'n' Me | I got closer to Michael Jackson than almost anyone, or at least closer than most people of the age of consent.
Eric Alterman

» Capitolism

Washington: Even More Corrupt Than You Thought! | Washington Post sells access to lobbyists.
Christopher Hayes
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» The Dreyfuss Report

Whisky Tango Foxtrot? | General Jones tells the generals in Kabul: don't bother asking for more troops.
Robert Dreyfuss
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