In 2014, Cosmopolitan decided to get serious about politics. At the time, TruthRevolt's Trey Sanchez reported on the feminist writer they hired to give them some gravitas, Jill Filipovic:

The addition of Filipovic apparently seeks to add real feminist credibility to a site that more typically is considered degrading to women for scantily clad/re-touched cover girls, sex position advice, the bikini diet and porn star beauty tips. 

To supplement its usual fodder, Filipovic will concentrate, at least initially, on reproductive rights, Obamacare's contraceptive mandate and even the upcoming mid-term elections, says Levy.

Now that Filipovic is writing about politics during the era of Trump, her tenuous grasp of how things actually work is showing. Daniel Payne writes about it in the Federalist:

Jill Filipovic’s latest essay at Cosmopolitan is like the Lernaean Hydra: it is almost impossible to know where or how to strike it, given its multi-headed absurdities. Every so often—really, quite often—there comes along a piece of political literature that is almost impossible to wrangle. Conceptually, factually, logically, aesthetically—everything about it is a total mess. This is what Filipovic has written and a number of Cosmo editors inexplicably, indefensibly green-lit.

“9 Reasons Constitutional Originalism is Bullsh*t,” Filipovic’s headline reads. We must be conscious of the possibility that Filipovic is not familiar with originalism and indeed had not even heard of the concept until someone told her about it sometime during the past six weeks or so. 

When Filipovic was hired, editor Amy Odell, said, "I think it's really important talking to an audience of millennial women to find a way to get them to connect to these [political] issues that are sadly so prevalent in our country today and around the world." And I agree that talking to Cosmo readers about topics that actually matter in the world is a great idea. However, Cosmo is learning a very important lesson... their political writers have to, you know, understand the subject.

Payne concludes:

Cosmopolitan is a magazine whose stock in trade revolves mostly around oral sex and creative uses for bubbles. Just the same: it’s 2017. We have the Internet, and we have well-funded and well-stocked public libraries and bookstores. There’s no excuse for this kind of hackery, particularly for someone as educated as Filipovic. It’s just embarrassing.

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