Devorah Blachor
I’m an undecided voter in a swing state, and I’m the only person who matters right now. And I have to tell you, I’m feeling very powerful, because everything I’m thinking and feeling matters much more than any dumb liberal or conservative notion you’ve ever had. Who cares what you thought of the […]
Republican candidate Donald Trump has reportedly told advisors that no one in the world can understand what he’s going through right now, with the exception of Hillary Clinton. “My accomplishments don’t matter anymore,” Trump is said to have lamented to his staff. “The tremendous enthusiasm I’ve generated counts for nothing. My beating the odds to […]
After the DNC convention in late July, Full Frontal’s Samantha Bee delivered one of her greatest rants to date. She reminded viewers of Hillary Clinton’s many credentials and endorsements, including the ones from Presidents, Republicans and “half the fucking Pentagon”. She concluded with an eerily spot-on premonition: “That is how good you have to be […]
The two major presidential candidates have been running neck-and-neck until today, one leading in the polls one moment, the other inching ahead the next. But now, in the last five minutes, this latest outrageous racist comment / email revelation / report of business ties to a hostile country / fainting spell / literal pressure cooker […]
This is my guide to “How to Raise an Empowered Girl”. Yay! Wait. Don’t get carried away. As I write in my book, it’s impossible to write a full proof guide. Girls develop the way do because of – but also despite – our best efforts. Parents play a role in how children turn out, […]
In 1996, historian Henry Louis Gates wrote an article for The New Yorker called “Hating Hillary,” in which he parsed the antipathy towards then First Lady Hillary Clinton. Gates didn’t produce one single cause but rather offered various explanations, ranging from the Clintons’ outsider cluelessness when they arrived in Washington to the failure of the […]