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On Sunday, President Donald Trump said that many women were “extremely happy” with the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, despite the sexual assault allegations against him. “They’re thinking of their sons, they’re thinking of their husbands, their…
The president of the United States said in a column in USA Today on Wednesday that Democrats who support Medicare-for-all want to “end Medicare as we know it” and, via an unclear series of aftershocks, eventually turn America into Venezuela.…
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg — who has now changed his party registration three times — is a Democrat again, further fueling speculation about whether he’ll try to run for president in 2020. The billionaire business executive announced…
On the occasion of my sixtieth birthday, my friend Lenny visited me from Toronto. He is seven years older than me, and he gave me some sound advice: respect the limitations of your body. Lenny said that he no longer…
Gritty, the new mascot of the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team, has had a busy few weeks. After he was introduced to the world, on September 24th, with the backstory that he had been living in the team’s home arena and…
Twenty-seven years after Clarence Thomas’s confirmation hearings, Anita Hill recalled that the most wrenching part of her testimony was not being asked by an all-white, all-male judiciary committee to repeat Thomas’s graphic and grotesque comments. It was knowing that her…
