Has the ‘discovery’ of medical gaslighting been suddenly Columbused by mainstream media? — While women, in general, cringed as they watched Judge Kentanji Brown Jackson endure days of hearings in which certain white senators (Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham in particular) assailed her with politically charged questions and puerile outbursts, Black and Brown women connected with Jackson on another level. …

Her tactic is to carry water for the president at any cost — Back during her CNN commentator days, I was once on the air with White House press secretary and Trump defender in chief Kayleigh McEnany. It was 2016, and we were both invited to be on a special CNN segment about women and politics. Although I had seen McEnany on TV…

Nowhere but in Trump’s America can the mediocrity of White men get a pass — Jared Kushner calling the administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic a “great success story” is exactly on-bullshit-brand for the First Son-in-Law of the United States. Appearing on Fox News on Wednesday, Kushner boldly declared that, “We’re on the other side of the medical aspect of this, and I think that…

The timely messaging behind their performances deserves a shoutout — I did not need any caffeine to get me going this morning because my soul and feet were still grooving off the electric energy of Jennifer “JLo” Lopez and Shakira’s Super Bowl LIV halftime show performance. …

The short film humanizes the lives of those involved in the Syrian conflict — While Lebanese-born actress Yasmine Al Massri may be best known in the United States for her star-turning role as twin Muslim FBI agent sisters in ABC’s hit show, Quantico, the actress returns to the big screen with her latest film, Refugee. The story centers on a Syrian doctor who is…

The U.S. government exploited the plight of Afghan girls and women and forgot its promises to help them — Explosions abound in Afghanistan this week as the Trump administration tries to wrap up negotiations and hand over power to the Taliban, the very same terrorist group the U.S. government vowed to wipe out at the start of America’s longest war back in 2001. Hashed out over months of talks…

As a woman of color who’s appeared on his show, I fully understand why — You could say Tucker Carlson and controversy are well acquainted, but the racist and sexist content the Fox News anchor spews on his cable news show is apparently getting too, well, racist and sexist even for his network’s top brass. To quickly recap, because there’s a lot of material in…

Would this even be tolerated if she weren’t a White woman? — You could chalk up Ivanka Trump’s meteoric rise, both on the global diplomatic front and within her father’s administration, to business as usual for the Trump presidency. After all, Papa Trump is notorious for filling key cabinet positions with close advisors and family members. But even for the Trumps, what…