Meet the Woman Determined to Change Congress

CELESTE KATZ

RASHIDA TLAIB HAS HER new commute timed: It takes about an hour and a half to fly from Washington, D.C., to her hometown of Detroit. The pomp and polished marble of the U.S. Capitol might seem a world away from Michigan’s 13th Congressional District, one of the poorest in the nation. Yet when Tlaib—who won her primary in August and had no Republican opponent in November, making her a lock to become the first Palestinian-American woman in Congress—explained to her two boys that she was going to start spending “three to four days a week in D.C. to change the world,” Adam, 13, erased any worries. “It’s OK, Mama, ’cause we can FaceTime,” he told her. Her younger son, Yousif, seven, was equally supportive: “He really does think I’m going to…

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Glamour (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2019

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