I've profiled women for @washingtonpost about the challenges of being in politics today. None were as open as Lauren Underwood, on the reality of life in Congress at 36 as a single Black woman, and on trying to sort out who you are vs. what you do
Ruby Cramer
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Ruby Cramer
@rubycramer
Staff Writer, @NewYorker. Email me! [email protected]. Formerly Washington Post, Politico Mag, and BuzzFeed News.
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Born July 28
Joined January 2009
- On a Saturday in July, a man with a pistol showed up outside Pramila Jayapal’s house in Seattle. Those 47 minutes, detailed in police reports and video footage, continue to alter her life. As threats of political violence rise, what they leave behind:
- As governor, she is leading the abortion fight in Michigan. For the last 15 days, Gretchen Whitmer has also been navigating that same crisis inside her own family, and the difficult conversations that come with it, as the mother of two young daughters:
- In a time when more Americans are being diagnosed with depression than ever before, there are people looking around for families like their own, and here are the Fettermans, in view and within reach. Gisele Fetterman navigates her family’s recovery:
- As Ron DeSantis pursues the presidency, his wife's role is limitless. Why does that inspire so much fear? Her rise in TV and insular marriage tell the story. On the life and power of Casey DeSantis, in @washingtonpost:
- Loving books was not enough. A Florida librarian wanted to encourage students’ reading, not police it. So she quit. @washingtonpost
- Replying to @rubycramer“I have gone through all the stages of grief around having made the active choice to do this,” she said... “I doubt that I will physically have a child, like birth a child, but I don’t know."
- what a massive night it was for Gretchen WhitmerBREAKING: Michigan Democrats win back full control of the Legislature for the first time since 1983.
- The impenetrable armor of Elise Stefanik. Behind the “moderate to MAGA” shorthand that has defined her rise in the GOP, a human transformation has taken place, and at a personal cost. A profile, new in @washingtonpost:
- Blake Hounshell was bursting with ideas. He was kind, irreverent, and so, so smart. He made the writers he worked with believe in themselves. I am thinking of his family and his many, many cherished friends and colleagues.
- A month into the Israel-Gaza war, a chance encounter in Brooklyn resulted in hate crime charges, an online mob, a wrongly identified assailant and a young father left with questions about justice, mercy and what anger can turn into:
- Replying to @rubycramerThis story, part of the @washingtonpost's Deep Reads series, also comes with a beautifully produced audio piece from @BishopSand.
- Replying to @rubycramer... and for Mallory McMorrow, a Democratic state senator who parlayed a viral video last year into a campaign to flip the Michigan senate. Lot of fundraising, lot of call time, lot of asking people to give to races that aren't considered glamorous. McMorrow raised more than $2m.
- From a free-spirited weather anchor, to the face of TV news in Ariz., to a G.O.P. phenom who relishes embarrassing reporters, Kari Lake can do Trump, but with polish. The journey here, bewildering ex-colleagues, makes her unlike any other Trump candidate.
