Editing Cosmopolitan (magazine) (section)

==Politics==
===Seventeenth Amendment===
''Cosmopolitan'' played a role in passing the [[Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Seventeenth Amendment]] to the [[United States Constitution|US Constitution]], which allowed for the popular election of US Senators (previously they were elected by state legislatures). In 1906, [[William Randolph Hearst]] hired [[David Graham Phillips]] to write a series of articles entitled "[[The Treason of the Senate]]". These articles, which were largely sensationalized, helped galvanize public support for this cause.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/SeventeenthAmendment.htm|title=U.S. Senate: Landmark Legislation: The Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution|website=United States Senate|access-date=July 30, 2017}}</ref>

===Candidate endorsement===
In September 2014, ''Cosmopolitan'' began endorsing political candidates. The endorsements are based on "established criteria" agreed upon by the magazine's editors. Specifically, ''Cosmopolitan'' will only endorse candidates that support [[Equal pay for equal work|equal pay laws]], legal [[abortion]], free [[contraceptives]], [[gun control]], and oppose [[voter identification law]]s. Amy Odell, editor of Cosmopolitan.com, has stated that under no circumstances will the magazine endorse a political candidate that is [[anti-abortion]]: "We're not going to endorse someone who is pro-life because that's not in our readers' best interest." According to Joanna Coles, the magazine's [[editor-in-chief]], the endorsements of ''Cosmopolitan'' will focus on "candidates in [[swing state]]s or candidates who are strongly in favor of issues like contraception coverage or gun control."<ref name="Politico">{{cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/the-new-cosmo-love-sex-politics-110586|title=The new Cosmo: Love, sex, politics?|last=Gold|first=Hadas|author-link=Hadas Gold|date=September 4, 2014|publisher=[[Politico]]|access-date=February 10, 2016}}</ref> In the [[United States elections, 2014|2014 U.S. elections]], ''Cosmopolitan'' officially endorsed twelve [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] candidates. However, only two of them won their respective [[political campaign]]s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-8-biggest-losers-of-the-war-on-women/article/2555814>|title=The 8 biggest losers of the war on women|first=Ashe |last=Schow|work=Washington Examiner}}{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

=== Campaigns against ''Cosmopolitan'' ===
Victoria Hearst, a granddaughter of [[William Randolph Hearst]] (founder of ''Cosmopolitan''{{'s}} parent company) and sister of [[Patty Hearst]], has lent her support to a campaign which seeks to classify ''Cosmopolitan'' as harmful under the guidelines of "Material Harmful to Minors" laws. Hearst, the founder of an evangelical Colorado church called Praise Him Ministries,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://praisehimministries.org/index.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140101101557/http://praisehimministries.org/index.htm|title=Praise Him Ministries|publisher=Praise Him Ministries|archive-date=January 1, 2014}}</ref> states that "the magazine promotes a lifestyle that can be dangerous to women's emotional and physical well being. It should never be sold to anyone under 18".<ref name="FN">{{cite web|last=McKay|first=Hollie|date=September 6, 2012|title=Victoria Hearst says her family's ''Cosmopolitan'' magazine "pornographic", joins campaign to get it brown bagged|url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/victoria-hearst-says-her-familys-cosmopolitan-magazine-pornographic-joins-campaign-to-get-it-brown-bagged/|work=[[Fox News]]}}</ref> According to former model [[Nicole Weider]], who is also part of this campaign, the magazine's marketing is subtly targeting children.<ref name="FN" /> Billboards have been hung in states such as Utah urging the state to ban sales of the magazine.

In 2018, Walmart announced that ''Cosmopolitan'' would be removed from checkout lines after the anti-pornography organization [[National Center on Sexual Exploitation]], formerly known as Morality in Media, labeled the magazine as "sexually explicit material".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/walmart-to-remove-cosmopolitan-magazine-from-checkout-lines|title=Walmart to remove Cosmopolitan magazine from checkout lines|last=Lam|first=Katherine|date=March 27, 2018|work=Fox News|access-date=April 5, 2018|language=en-US}}</ref>{{better source needed|reason=Fox News is [[WP:RS/P|generally regarded as unreliable]] for political reporting|date=October 2023}}