Fresh faces:Ruth Graham looks at the culture of young pro-life activists and finds a large number of teen and twentysomething women who consider themselves feminists—and, importantly, secular.

Here to break some hearts: Mark Joseph Stern sees your T-shirts and tote bags and says to you regretfully: Ruth Bader Ginsburg is not the progressive hero you seek. In the wake of the justice’s recent unsupportive comments about Colin Kaepernick, Stern suggests activists looking for a hero turn instead to Ginsburg’s colleague, Sonia Sotomayor.

In Pennsylvania: Seth Stevenson visited a Trump rally to see if the climate had changed since the release of The Tape. The candidate’s poll numbers have been dipping, and he’s lost support from many mainstream Republicans; the people in Wilkes-Barre didn’t care.

In the classroom:Is the so-called “Trump Effect”—an election-related outbreak of bullying and fear in K-12 schools across the nation—real? Dana Goldstein finds mixed evidence and some disturbing anecdotes.

No guts:Liberals are far too reliant on so-called “eviscerations” of objectionable opponents, Sam Kriss writes. What have all those “epic rants” from the likes of Keith Olbermann achieved? Very little.

For fun: A love letter to that most unlikely of crushes: Microsoft Word.

No accounting for taste,

Rebecca