The Comment Factory

Rachel is a freelance journalist based in New York and San Francisco, covering business, technology and travel. She has previously worked for FastCompany.com, CNN's San Francisco bureau and the U.S. Department of State, and had clips & photos published in the New York Daily News, MainStreet.com, and Irish America Magazine, among others. Rachel has a B.A. in Mass Communications and History from the University of California, Berkeley and a M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University, where she served as art director for the student magazine, Plated. She currently works The Business Insider.

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Kate Winslet has come under unfair criticism from her countrymen and women.

Fashion isn’t just about pretty clothes. Right now, it’s about keeping people employed. At least that’s how Joanna Coles, editor-in-chief of Marie Claire, looks at it. Rachel Kings reports on her Delacorte Lecture at Columbia University in New York.

My mum remembers the day Harvey Milk was shot, but many believed California had come a long way since then. The passing of Proposition 8 shows there is still a lot of work to do.