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- The Atlantic interviewed Rebekah Herrick, an Oklahoma State University professor who studied the phenomenon and found that the reason fewer than 5% of Congress have facial hair is because they don’t want to adopt a persona that might make them look insensitive to women’s issues.
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Dec 31, 2015 · The Atlantic interviewed Rebekah Herrick, an Oklahoma State University professor who studied the phenomenon and found that the reason fewer than 5% of Congress have facial hair is because they...
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Sep 10, 2015 · What is the true state of facial hair in Congress? This chart shows it, in all its bearded and mustachioed glory:
Dec 19, 2018 · Politics tends to be the realm of the clean shaven, but as America has grown more lax about facial hair, scruff has become more acceptable in Washington too.
Dec 4, 2015 · Ryan's facial hair makes him the first speaker to do so since Frederick Gillett in the 1920s.
Dec 30, 2015 · The congressmen with facial hair were thought to be more masculine, less feminist, and less likely to support women’s rights, Herrick wrote in a blog post about her work. As a consequence,...
Dec 1, 2022 · It’s the type of capricious, shortsighted facial hair behavior one might expect from a teenager who just developed the capacity to grow a full mustache, or a recent divorcé ready for some light...
Mar 21, 2019 · A brief history of political facial hair. Tangent is a recurring feature of The Washington Post Magazine, an illustrated tour of recent and historical developments in politics and culture.
