During a panel with other female global leaders in Germany last week, Ivanka Trump responded with poise as she discussed the controversy surrounding her defense of her father regarding his comments on women. “I grew up in a house where…

On Saturday night, I witnessed a horrible atrocity. It happened at the Scientology center that has recently been remodeled, and has since reopened across the street from my house. On the roof of the building, there were about a hundred…

In 1962, authors Fletcher Knebel and Charles Bailey published a novel, Seven Days in May, about a nearly successful right-wing military takeover of the federal government by generals appalled by a nuclear disarmament accord placed before the Senate for ratification….

They are Brian Johnson, they are Allison Reynolds , and, of course, they are John Bender. They are everything the late great John Hughes wrote about: the outcasts, the mocked, the scoffed, the shy, the talented and the scared, all…

Details 5’11″/sapiosexual privileged white male  About me: I was born in Brooklyn, New York, to two very liberal parents. My father would often quote the great philosopher Russel Ziskey and tell me to “never hit anyone in anger, unless you’re…

Just days before Christmas, Ivanka Trump was accosted by a fellow JetBlue passenger who felt moved — no, the correct word is “entitled” — to dump on her his displeasure that her father, Donald Trump, had been elected president. The…

So it’s okay for two grown men, one holding a child, to verbally accost the first daughter and her family as they sit quietly on a plane? Can you imagine for a nanosecond the national uproar if this had been…