No one can be surprised to hear that yet another Fox News employee is accused of sexual harassment. This is a world built by a sexual predator, a world where lewd, suggestive comments and weird double entendre get spewed regularly during the coffee drinking hours. But I am confounded by one recurring detail in the …
Everyone knows the story of the boy who cried wolf. It’s been told and retold a hundred times. The basic story remains the same. A young shepherd amuses himself by riling up the town with false sightings of wolves. When real wolves threaten his flock, no one comes to help the boy. After so many …
New York Times columnist and go-to broadcast commentator David Brooks spent years building a reputation as a reasonable conservative voice, but reasonable conservatives are no longer in vogue. Brooks now seems a bit at sea. In the past month he has written columns on the ways a trendy lunch spot can expose a class divide …
Our nation is currently represented by a bunch of unqualified, foul-mouthed vulgarians. The newly installed White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci is a prime example. The Mooch, as he likes to be called (really!), took a scorched earth approach to his new gig. He threatened to fire everyone and then called up a reporter and …
It seems no matter which party is in power, health care in America costs too much and does too little. There’s a lot of handwringing about this lately, but not much action. We could seek solutions by looking to other countries, but we won’t. As Americans we hate being told that someone else is doing …
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I won’t shed a tear for the demise of the Sessions-Trump bromance. They were an odd couple from day one, joined together by a shared hatred for brown people with foreign accents and outdated ideas about drug enforcement. Bad policy is not enough to sustain a longterm love affair. If Sessions is removed from office—and I …
My husband is a whiz at fast-forwarding through television commercials. I am not so quick to the button. When he travels, as he’s doing now, I see a lot of random advertisements while I’m watching Jeopardy! or the news. There is an ad running now that is both relentlessly terrifying and ridiculous. It’s an ad …
Warning: It’s not a pretty picture. I’m worried about Sarah Huckabee Sanders. She seems to have no moral center. Sanders has been the White House’s water carrier for the president’s cruel and misogynistic attacks on women. It makes sense to turn to her. Can you imagine Sean Spicer trying to defend the latest round of tweets? …
The president of the United States has too many opinions about women. Earlier this week he called over a reporter from Ireland and flirted with her while he was on the phone with Ireland’s new prime minister. “I bet she treats you well,” he said, as if the reporter were a mistress rather than a …
Last week I wrote a blog post about hypocrisy. It struck a nerve. Most of my posts get fewer than 100 views. When a post edges up over 200 views, I celebrate. In the first few days, “You Said This Was What You Wanted” registered nearly 40,000 views. My website crashed and crashed again. The last …