(I need to be out of the house in 30 minutes, so please excuse the furious scribbling and inevitable typos.) 

In the past few months, I've spent a fair bit of time trying to figure out which topics that I want to write about for mainstream publications. Should I specialize? What should I specialize in? Yadda, yadda. This is a boring topic more appropriate for a conversation in my backyard with a drink in hand. 

In order to make a better decision, I've been keeping an eye on what other women writers write about and what topics make it to the cover of magazines. Here's some data to add to my unofficial research.

Check out the recent cover of Foreign Policy magazine. 

More commentary by the Monkey Cage and Duck of Minerva. 

Also check out the recent cover of Newsweek.

Pretty appalling.