ARGUMENT FOR CHANGE

ARGUMENT FOR CHANGE

Emily Bazelon is a senior editor at the online magazine Slate.com, where she writes about legal affairs. She takes part in a weekly Slate podcast called “The Gabfest,” talking about current political issues with colleagues David Plotz and John Dickerson. Bazelon has also written for the Atlantic, Mother Jones, and the Yale Law Journal. In this essay, Bazelon examines an age-old domestic issue: spanking.

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