"You Can't Have Both": The Impossible Struggle of Working Parents in COVID Capitalism

In her impassioned, desperate diatribe on the increasingly untenable position of working parents--caught between work and child care in the reopening economy--food writer Deb Perelman asks her readers two incredulous questions: "Why isn't anyone talking about this? Why are we not hearing a primal scream so deafening that no plodding policy can be implemented without addressing the people buried by it?" As it turns out, those primal screams were waiting patiently for Deb Perelman to lead them in ...