Amelia Pollard

Author Archive

  • Aug 25, 2021
    In the 1980s, when feature films dominated porn and the internet was still a long way from taking over the industry, porn stars tried to unionize. It was the era of sex icons like...
  • Aug 6, 2021
    Every day at the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Mississippi’s only abortion clinic, resembles trench warfare. Painted like a shade of bubble gum, the center...
  • Aug 2, 2021
    As the director of the local health department in Oak Park, Illinois, Dr. Theresa Chapple does a little bit of everything. Reports of menacing wildlife, restaurant inspections, and...
  • Jul 1, 2021
    In the first six months of the legislative session, one man has emerged as a national obsession for the left: Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV). Over a decade into his career in Washington,...
  • Jun 25, 2021
    When most fathers and sons get on the phone, they might chat about the latest episode of Succession, or last night’s Cubs game, or the grandkids. Greg and Howard Brodsky are...
  • Jun 18, 2021
    As one of the first kids from his church to go to college, Tamar Wilson wanted to make it count. At 18, he figured the higher price tag at Pace University—where he ended up for...
  • Jun 7, 2021
    “Consensus” is not a word you hear much in the United States Senate these days. But a bill aimed at reforming the military justice system and preventing sexual assault...
  • May 12, 2021
    A few months after former Alaskan Sen. Mike Gravel called off his 2020 presidential bid, Henry Williams, David Oks, and Henry Magowan made a trip out to Monterey, California, to see...
  • Apr 15, 2021
    Last summer, after George Floyd died under Derek Chauvin’s knee, protesters in Pensacola, Florida, held a week’s worth of rallies and sit-ins. On June 6, those protests...
  • Apr 8, 2021
    Last week, the Prospect reported that students across the country have been shown right-wing content from nonprofit educational video maker PragerU for years, even though it was...
  • Apr 2, 2021
    Robyn Ellis was a high school sophomore in a rural town in Kern County, California, when their government teacher started showing a string of videos from a media organization that...