“The most important thing is that you just stay true to your own idea of what is beautiful,” said Mikaela Shiffrin, an American two-time Olympic gold medalist. Her message on Maxim magazine’s HOT 100 list landed with a hollow, dull thud instead of the powerful, ultra-feminist punch it tried to pack. Since 2000, Maxim touts...
When the clock strikes 11 a.m. this November 11th, a century since the end of the First World War will have passed. But for much of the country, little notice will be paid. While historians have come to label the Korean War as the so-called “Forgotten War,” this title is perhaps better suited to the...
President Trump announced his intent to end birthright citizenship via executive order last week in an interview with Axios. Consequently, an outpouring of constitutional analysis from both the left and the right commenced: Is birthright citizenship required by the Fourteenth Amendment? Or is it the result of a misreading of the law? Many constitutional scholars,...
It was only five months ago that the media was captivated by a historic meeting between the leader of North Korea Kim Jong-Un and President Donald Trump, with breathless promises of denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula. Only a few months later, North Korea has disappeared from the headlines. Now, many Americans probably have no idea...
A tweet from Elle magazine two weeks ago lured followers to a voter-registration site by promoting a fake-news headline: “Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are splitting up.” The magazine apologized in the wake of backlash, “Our passion for voter registration clouded our judgement and we are sincerely sorry.” But plenty of tweeters gushed over the...