Meghan's column about politics and social issues appeared on the Los Angeles Times op-ed page from 2005 to 2018. Selections from the archive appear below.

July 29, 2018 We're All Bound And Gagged By The Social Media Mob Now

May 25, 2018 In The Age of #MeToo, Philip Roth Offered An Unlikely Blueprint for Feminists

March 16, 2018 A New Movement To Speak Truth To Identity Politics Is Our Best Hope Against Regressive Thinking

January 27, 2018 Had Enough of the Visceral Response to the Trump Era? Try A Little Nuance Instead

March 5, 2017 A Day Without A Woman Is A Strike For Privileged Protestors

December 25, 2016 "Special Snowflake" Is The Triscuit Of Insults: Banish It In 2017

December 8, 2016 Identity Politics Did In Clinton, But Not The Way You Think

November 24, 2016 Trumpocalypse Now: Are You Panicking Or Taking A Deep Breath?

November 6, 2016 We Have A Chance To Make History By Electing America's First Woman President. Why Aren't We Celebrating?

October 27, 2016 All Trump Gropes Are Bad, But They Aren't All Equal Or Equally Horrible

October 12, 2016 Clinton The Resilient Shows She's Tougher Than Trump The Bully

September 29, 2016 Donald Trump Takes Mansplaining To An Even Lower Level--Dumbsplaining

September 15, 2016 Could a Clinton Presidency Unleash a Post-Gender Society? Not a Chance.

September 1, 2016 When It Comes To Campus Groupthink, Trigger Warnings Aren't The Half Of It

August 16, 2016 What Hillary Clinton And Simone Biles Have In Common

August 4, 2016 Why Trump Can't Tell The Difference Between A Twitter War And A Presidential Campaign

July 21, 2016 Why The Weasel Word "Problematic" Should Be Banned

July 7, 2016 Will Hillary Clinton Throw Down And Name Elizabeth Warren As Her Running Mate?

June 23, 2015 My White Privilege Meets Sonia Sotomayor's Scathing Attack On Police Power

June 9, 2016 The Dangerous Irony of Rape Accusation Culture

May 26, 2016 Why The Right Hides From Its Own Good Luck

May 12, 2016 Madeleine Albright A War Criminal? Scripps College's Baffling Crusade of Simple Thinking

April 28, 2016 #FreeToBleed? No Thanks. Sometimes Discretion Is The Better Part of Activism

April 14, 2016 If You're Shocked By Donald Trump, It's Probably Time To Take the Bubble Quiz

April 7, 2016 The GOP's Misogyny Problem Is Bigger Than Trump

March 17, 2016 Will Evangelicals Take Trump on Faith?

March 3, 2016 The "Stand By Your Man" Feminism of Hillary Clinton

February 18, 2016 Scalia and Ginsburg: The End of a Beautiful Friendship

February 4, 2016 Curvy Or No, Barbie Is Still A Mean Girl

January 21, 2016 Yes, Millennials, Hillary Clinton Is A Feminist

January 7, 2016

December 10, 2015 Forget "Bleeding Heart Liberals," The GOP Is Now The Party Of Feelings

November 25, 2015 Eat, Shop, Click: Another Kind of Black Friday

November 12, 2015 Protests at Mizzou and Yale Reveal More Than PC Problems

October 29, 2015 Sanders and Clinton: What's All The Shouting About?

October 15, 2015 Right To Dry Movement Gets Its Day In The Sun

October 1, 2015 A Presidential Campaign As Reality TV

September 17, 2015 Right to Die Laws: Do We Have The Gumption To Make Such Big Life Decisions

August 26, 2015 With Flippant Adoption Comment, Jonathan Franzen Births Social Media Outrage

August 20, 205 In A Way, We All Work for Amazon Now

August 6, 2015 Does Cosmo Deserve a Plain Brown Wrapper?

July 23, 2015 Give Atticus' Parents a Break

July 9, 2015 Over The Facebook Rainbow

June 11, 2015 Will Smart Looking Glasses Do The Trick for Rick Perry?

June 1, 2015 "Jezebel Effect" Poisons Conversations on Gender and Sexual Violence

May 26, 2015 Time For Young Feminists To Look Past The Mattress and Campus Rape

May 14, 2015 The Hung Jury In The Etan Patz Case Was Right

April 29, 2015 Has Millennial Self-Esteem Become Self-Righteouness?

April 16, 2015 Hillary Clinton's No-Knife, No-Botox Run for the White House

March 18, 2015 Hillary Clinton and Us: Portrait of an Abusive Relationship

March 4, 2015 How Grievance Culture Undercuts the Fight Against Rape Culture

February 18, 2015 The Westminster Dog Show Doesn't Deserve PETA's Bite

February 12, 2015 Fifty Shades of Grey's Allure: Sex or Money?

February 2, 2015 Political Correctness is Back in Hurricane Force

January 21, 2015 Does Mike Huckabee Want to Be President? Or Beyoncé's Bassist?

January 14, 2015 Why Blaming Leelah Alcorn's Parents Only Compounds the Bigotry

January 7, 2015 Mansplaining? Windbags Come in Both Genders

January 2, 2015 Hollywood's Idealized View of CIA Officers Is No Substitute for Reality

2014

February 20: Belgium's Human Stance on Dying Kids

June 5: Misogyny and the Co-Opting of the Isla Vista Tragedy

September 10: The New, Tiresome Culture of Outrage

October 8: Brittany Maynard's Date with Death

October 15: Using "Privilege" as a Weapon

November 13: Is The War Between Women Diverting from The War Against Women?

November 26: The Real-life Bill Cosby Show: Follow the Sanctimony

December 3: The University of Virginia Rape Rorschach Test

2013

January 3: I Like Me, I Really Like Me! Why Facebook Is All About Bragging

May 16: The Gift of a Great Dog

July 11: Rethinking the Cleveland Kidnapping Narrative

August 1: Weiner, Filner: Therapy and the Art of Political Cleansing

August 6: Parenthood Optional

September 12: The Syria Dilemma: Can Global Atrocities Be Ranked?

2012

January 26: Newt's Debt To Clinton

April 19: The Ann Romney Trap

July 12: The GOP's Palin Hangover

August 16: Helen Gurley Brown and the Limits of Stiletto Lib

October 18: Madonna's Tone Deaf Tattoo

December 20: Finally, It's Time for Gun Control

2011

January 20: Amy Chua and the Eye of the "Tiger"

April 17: Why Sarah Palin Doesn't Get What She Deserves

June 16: Anthony Weiner's Inner Geekdom

July 21: The Marcus Bachmann Hypocrisy

November 10: Zygotes on a Slippery Slope

2010

January 7: Octomom, "Hoarders" and Compulsion

January 28: Medicine, Hope and Managing Death

May 20: Sarah Palin, Feminist

November 25: A Medical Odyssey

December 2: Back from the Brink

2009

January 31: Eight is More Than Enough

April 25: Carrie Prejean sv. Perez Hiton

September 10: The Chador and Feminism Don't Always Fit

November 26: SkyMall: A Catalog With Altitude

December 9: John Marcotte: Defending Marriage by Denying Divorce

2008

January 12: Hillary's Gotta Have It

March 8: Why We Still Need Clinton

May 17: The White Versus Off-White Election

May 31: In the Context of No Context

September 20: Straight Talk Expressed

2007

February 10: I'm With Cupid

June 10: Dr. Death: American Icon

July 14: The Little Black Dress of "Responsibility"

September 8: Defending Jerry Lewis

September 29: If Alex the Parrot's a Genius, Why Not Me?

2006

January 28: Harassed or Just Bummed?

February 25: Who's the Idiot Now?

August 5: The Dope In All of Us

2005

September 20: What We Dug About Maynard

December 10: Shouldn't Men Have "Choice" Too?

December 17: Hooked on Howard's Vocal Vérité

The essay My Misspent Youth, which originally appeared in The New Yorker in 1999, is still available online.