Meghan Daum

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is introduced by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., at a rally in Cincinnati on June 27.

Elizabeth Warren isn’t the safe choice for VP. That’s why Hillary Clinton should pick her.

May 25, 2020 at 11:03 p.m.

A year or so ago, I sat across a dinner table from an optimistic young woman (in her 30s, a millennial) and sternly explained to her why Hillary Clinton, were...

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor in Newark, Del.

My white privilege meets Sotomayor’s scathing attack on police power

May 11, 2019 at 8:26 a.m.

In what's being touted as a turning point in the way the U.S. Supreme Court considers the factor of race in the criminal justice system, Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Monday...

President Barack Obama delivers Howard University's commencement speech during the 2016 Howard University graduation ceremony in Washington on May 7.

Would you even have bootstraps without a little luck?

May 11, 2019 at 8:22 a.m.

Is there anyone more obnoxious than the person who, in the face of gushing admiration over her professional achievements, her perfect family, her lavishly appointed home, responds demurely, "We've been...

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright meets with students in ChicagoonApril 10, 2012.

Quit all the hating on commencement speakers

June 10, 2018 at 8:02 p.m.

Ah, May, when flowers are blooming, allergens are wafting and aggrieved college students are mewling about commencement speakers whose politics don't sufficiently hew to the ultra-liberal standards set by the...

Donald Trump, accompanied by his wife Melania Trump, speaks during a campaign event in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Feb. 1, 2016.

The GOP’s misogyny problem is bigger than Donald Trump

May 11, 2019 at 8:11 a.m.

There's something almost sweet about the way Democrats and establishment Republicans are coming together over their shared disgust with Donald Trump. Unable to find common ground on even the most...

The ‘stand by your man’ feminism of Hillary Clinton

May 11, 2019 at 8:05 a.m.

Hillary Clinton fared well on Super Tuesday, winning seven of 11 primaries thanks in large part to minority voters in delegate-heavy Southern states such as Texas and Virginia. But the...

Adele performs at Radio City Music Hall in New York. The concert, "Adele Live in New York City," was televised on NBC on Monday, Dec. 14.

2015: Our most hyperbolic year ever

May 11, 2019 at 7:54 a.m.

It's the end of the year, when newspaper columnists are supposed to fill in the blank — "2015 was the year of ————" — and decide whether the phenomenon in...

Students celebrate after University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe's resignation announcement Nov. 9, 2015, at the school in Columbia, Mo.

The tantrums at Mizzou and Yale reveal more than PC problems

August 18, 2019 at 6:32 p.m.

At the University of Missouri, it took a hunger-striking student and the threat of a football boycott to get the president and chancellor to step down amid long-standing campus racial...

The laundry director for Camp Emerald Bay, the Boy Scout camp on Catalina Island, hangs laundry out to dry in July of 2012.

Right-to-dry movement gets its day in the sun in California

May 11, 2019 at 7:41 a.m.

Last week, amid all the excitement (if that's the right word) over Gov. Jerry Brown's signing of a right-to-die bill for California, a smaller, quieter — and rhyming — law...

A presidential campaign as reality TV

May 11, 2019 at 7:38 a.m.

It's a truism in Hollywood that movies are made in the editing room. No matter how airtight the script, no matter how brilliant the actors, no matter what the director...

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