The White House made a Christmas tree out of books and the selections are weird
The holiday season is here again, and, as per tradition, people are decorating their homes in the spirit of celebration. Including the White House. And while many are perplexed by… Read more »
Grade school librarian to Melania: Get unbent and do something to help underserved children
Healthcare, as the Trump administration knows, is complicated. International affairs, we must concede, can have a lot of moving parts. But sending fun books to schoolchildren? That’s supposed to be… Read more »
Let Girls Learn… or not
Yesterday, CNN announced it had obtained “an internal document” from the Trump administration, outlining the discontinuation of Michelle Obama’s “Let Girls Learn” program — an education initiative aimed at providing opportunities… Read more »
Trump’s pick for National Security Council communications role is a serial plagiarizer
Melania Trump’s plagiarism of Michelle Obama was relegated to an even lower level of embarrassing-but-not-exactly-the-worst failings of the Trump political machine this past weekend. On Saturday, CNN’s K-File team reported… Read more »
The Trainwreck Files: Melania Trump
It’s time for another installment of The Trainwreck Files, in which we ask Sady Doyle, author of Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear… And Why, to pull a… Read more »
Some thoughts and context on the “confusion and hysteria” Melania Trump’s plagiarism has caused
Earlier this week, Melania Trump, wife of no-longer-presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, briefly claimed the title of America’s best-known Slovene, for all the wrong reasons. Unless you’ve been living… Read more »