by Robin Abcarian Do MAGA Republicans hear themselves? Earlier this month, as he speculated on Newsmax about how Vice President Kamala Harris might perform as the Democratic presidential nominee, the reliably noxious Donald Trump supporter Sebastian Gorka dismissed her in the most ...
‘The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on’ I am the widow of a professor emeritus of the former Department of Foreign Languages at West Virginia University. As I’ve been reading the various letters from former students, present and former faculty, etc., and watching the TV footage ...
by Carla Hall If men could get pregnant, the saying goes, the Declaration of Independence might well have declared that all men are endowed with the right to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness and a safe abortion. A colleague once suggested to me that such phrasing wouldn’t have ...
by Susan Estrich Here we go again. A strong, prominent woman in the political arena comes under attack for being too strong, too ambitious, having too big a role in her spouse’s campaign. Sound familiar? Painfully so. Sexist? No question. Only this time, ...
by Omer Aziz Last fall, just blocks from my apartment in Cambridge, Mass., a gang of neo-Nazis gathered in Harvard Square on a Sunday afternoon. Videos showed a group of masked white men shouting, spitting, cursing homophobic slurs and chest-thumping at students. They were part of the ...
How convenient that presidential hopeful Nikki Haley’s proposed mental-competency test for politicians would kick in at age 75 — just below the age of her only other announced Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, and a few years below incumbent Democrat Joe Biden. Since the ...