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Rafael Nadal won his 11th French Open on Sunday. But he double faulted on celebrations when he served up reportedly sexist and politically incorrect opinions on equal pay for men and women in Tennis: Female models earn more than male models and nobody says anything. Why? Because they have a larger following. In tennis too,… Read more.
I could not have been prouder when the National Museum of African American History and Culture opened in September 2016 on the hallowed Mall in Washington, DC. That it opened under the auspices of the first black president of the United States made the occasion seem providential. In fact, I was so proud, I became… Read more.
The deaths this week of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain highlight the epidemic of suicides in America. And, given the celebrity-obsessed nature of our culture, I fear their suicides might make it seem “cool” for other tortured souls to do the same. To be fair, suicides were increasing at an alarming rate for years before… Read more.
After a nail-biter of a finale, the Stanley Cup is coming to Washington for the first time in the Capitals’ 44 seasons. From captain Alex Ovechkin’s gaptoothed grin in Las Vegas to the thousands of delirious fans in downtown Washington, the moment encapsulated years of disappointment, hurt and anticipation — all of it corked, shaken… Read more.
The first matches of the FIFA World Cup kick off a week today. But, if I were half the international “influencer” Kim Kardashian has become, those matches would be kicking off not in Russia but in England or France. Perhaps you’re aware that President Vladimir Putin has turned Russia into a rogue state by, among… Read more.
I feel obliged to begin with this prevailing disclosure about beauty pageants: It’s dismaying enough that women are still blithely competing in beauty pageants that should only appeal to 1950s male chauvinist pigs. But it’s downright pitiful that they are perpetuating the notion that the only woman worth crowning is a beauty who pretends she… Read more.
It’s demeaning enough that President Trump plans to travel all the way to Singapore just to “get to know” the genocidal dictator of North Korea, Kim Jong-un. But it seems Kim is willfully insulting Trump. For only this explains Kim making such a show of fraternizing with the genocidal dictator of Syria, Bashir al-Assad, with… Read more.
Natural disasters, like droughts and pandemics, are commonplace in Africa. As I write this, for example, drought is decimating East and Southern Africa while a new Ebola outbreak is raging across the Democratic Republic of Congo and threatening to spread beyond. Hell, you’d be forgiven for thinking that God is continually unleashing plagues to get… Read more.
Kim Kardashian West met with President Donald Trump and other officials, including senior adviser Jared Kushner, at the White House on Wednesday to discuss prison reform. ‘It is our hope that the President will grant clemency to Ms. Alice Marie Johnson who is serving a life sentence for a first-time, non-violent drug offense,’ Kardashian West… Read more.
Nobody should be surprised that Trump delivered his to Kim by reading it aloud on TV. After all, this P.T. Barnum of politics is all about the show — the consequences be damned. But it’s refreshing to see that Kim is delivering his to Trump by hand. Never mind that this is what any sensible… Read more.
