Sisterhood!(EDITOR'S NOTE) (Editorial)

• Author: Conniff, Ruth

As the mother of three daughters, I think about sisterhood all the time. No one has your back like a sister. No one makes you laugh as hard, or feel as well understood. And no one knows how to push your buttons and make you mad quite like a sister, either.

The progressive movement is like that, too. We have our differences. But, ultimately, we are family, united by what we care most about: justice, humanity, tolerance, and peace.

There are some things in this issue of the magazine that might push your buttons. It might be Shaadi Devereaux of Black Girl Dangerous calling on mainstream feminism to make transgender women's rights a priority (page 32), or Jia Tolentino of Jezebel writing about sorority girls (page 18). Or it might be Katha Pollitt's argument that young women spend too much time thinking about culture and identity politics because they haven't yet realized that the real fights facing women are for control over our economic destiny (page 15).

Perhaps a whole issue on feminism strikes you as a bit much. This is our third themed issue in a row, although Jack Craver mixes things up a bit with a report on Muslims in France (page 28), and my colleague Amit Pal's Comment this month takes our feminism theme in an interesting direction--tying it to anti-Muslim sentiment and U.S. foreign policy.

Not every issue going forward will be on a single theme. But a feminism issue seems appropriate, and...