Molly Ringwald and her husband Paino Gianopoulos got their weekend off to an early start, hitting the red carpet at the 2023 PEN America Literary Awards.
about it. people were smoking at hech fest? i know, crazy, right? way to bury the lead there, betsy. i don t know. acting like we re what s going on? all right. betsy woodruff, thank you for coming on. taking this seriously, unlike ari naftali, check out betsy s piece at the national review line and the cycle.msnbc.com. while you re doing all that, head over to our facebook and riddle me this should other states follow the evergreen s lead in decriminalizing weed? stephen says absolutely. this happen in any location where the people are serious about american freedom and do not just take such sfon freedom for granted. josh winston agrees saying the whole country should legalize it, peter tosh would agree, as always, like us on the facebook. up next, the absurdity of the
egypt and seen as a steady partner throughout the region. not your usual dictator, if you will. what happens if he s out there? well, ari, he still was convicted of crimes. he was convicted of a crime for, in effect, condoning the attacks on demonstrators in tahrir square. this being released is only temporary, at least right now, as i understand it, pending a new trial on other charges. so he may get out of hospital and be removed to some sort of safe house, but this doesn t mean he s going to be walking down the streets of cairo, unfettered to the accolades or to the jeers of people who clearly have very strong animosities towards him, no matter what side of the political divide you are. he is not a unifying figure by any stretch of the imagination. and ambassador, you ve talked about how essentially impotent the u.s. is to exert influence in this conflict. if we remove military aid, it will be more of a symbolic
or tougher, i would argue, in this specific panel. ari brings down the average. i thought you were going to make more of a joke there. that s a family quarrel. i m not getting into that. great to have you here. i definitely agree with the cover choice to have kate upton. not something we get to do at the nation magazine. i m down with it. the question i want to ask is about policy. in the piece you look at the map of the world, and americans like to think we re exceptional and in the lead. you point out we re one of only eight countries that doesn t actually require paid maternity leave. there we are with liberia. tell us about how that policy dynamic plays into this. well, the interesting thing from our survey is equal numbers of men and women, republicans and democrats, all above 80% said that they felt that paid maternity leave should be federally mandated. what does that mean? that means everybody supports women working and working full time and having the full supp