Fed nominee Stephen Moore apologizes for past writings about women and sports

Federal Reserve building.
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He's trying to walk it back.

Last week, President Trump's nominee for the Federal Reserve Board, Stephen Moore, defended recently resurfaced articles he wrote in the early 2000s as a "spoof." In the pieces, Moore writes women should not be involved in men's college basketball games at any level unless they "look like Bonnie Bernstein."

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.