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Donald J. Trump is the richest president in US history. Therefore, it’s ironic that he’s cheapening the presidency more than any other. But that irony is laced with gall. Because this cheapening is directly proportional to the way he’s using the presidency to enrich himself and his family. I have written many commentaries warning it… Read more.
By Trump’s own admission, it was not common humanity but viral images that finally forced him to do this: President Trump caved to enormous political pressure on Wednesday and signed an executive order that ends the separation of families by indefinitely detaining parents and children together at the border. ‘I didn’t like the sight or… Read more.
On too many occasions in the course of human events, man’s inhumanity to man provokes commentaries that inflame passions more than shed light. This is one of those occasions. But I hope what follows sheds light more than inflames passions. Since early May, 2,342 children have been separated from their parents after crossing the Southern… Read more.
No doubt you recall the media sensation Tiger Woods’s wife caused when she busted his lip, thereby bursting their marital bubble. It happened around Thanksgiving Day in 2009 – when she reacted to breaking news about his cheating by taking one of his irons to his hide, and then to his car. I joined in… Read more.
A media organization should hire Rogers today … for America’s sake. A veteran editorial cartoonist for The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was fired Thursday after he and the newspaper’s management clashed over some sketches critical of President Donald Trump. (Huffington Post, June 14, 2018) Mind you, management never had a problem when this equal-opportunity critic was submitting… Read more.
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.
