What if vaping-gate wasn’t her fault? Should getting kicked out of ‘Beetlejuice’ cost her the next election? — In January, I wrote a piece called “Lauren Boebert Is Hot,” which referred to her as a political dominatrix in light of her role as a power player in the GOP’s protracted struggle to pick a Speaker of the House. Some readers missed the tag labeling the piece as satire…

Spain’s Football President Luis Rubiales has apologized for kissing a female player at the Women’s World Cup. Why isn’t that enough? — Everyone is talking about how terrible it was for Luis Rubiales to kiss Jennifer Hermoso after Spain won the 2023 Women’s World Cup. Now he has a few things to say too: Ladies and gentlemen, I ask you, what is so wrong with kissing a woman at a moment of…

It’s one of the most famous speeches in the world, but most people forget the one thing that made it possible for him to give it. — By now lots of people know it was Gospel singer Mahalia Jackson who shouted “Tell them about your dream, Martin!” during the 1963 March on Washington. If it wasn’t for her, one of the most famous speeches in American history might have a lot less famous. And possibly forgotten altogether.

Despite its greatness, Dr. King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech has become a bromide and an empty promise — It’s probably sacrilege to criticize the 1963 March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, famous “I Have a Dream” speech. Especially during the 60th anniversary of the celebrated event. But surely, enough time has passed to look at the speech without tears. Without going to pieces over the…

Ruby Freeman volunteered to work during the 2020 election. Now she’s in the midst of Fulton County’s racketeering case against Donald Trump — Ruby Freeman was not looking for fame when she volunteered as a Fulton County poll worker during the 2020 election. But fame came looking for her when Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani falsely accused her and her daughter Wandrea “Shaye” Moss of adding “suitcases” full of fraudulent ballots for Joe…

60 years after Dr. King’s ‘I Have a Dream Speech,’ the brawl on Montgomery’s riverfront is not a microcosm of America — Here we are, approaching the 60th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington — and the most talked-about subject in America is The Brawl. And for good reason. The racially charged incident struck a chord that reached deep into the reptilian brain, triggering visceral fight-or-flight reactions: in those involved, folks…

After her relationship with Barbenheimer turns sour, things go from bad to worse when the superstar decides to get serious about Hiroshima — In an unprecedented break with the Barbenheimer franchise, fashion icon Barbie turned political this week during a news conference in Los Angeles. Instead of thanking the theater-going public for catapulting her new film past the $1 billion mark, as expected, the blonde bombshell dropped a bomb of her own.

Why her quest for expiation after the Tate-LaBianca murders recalls Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Mr. Rochester of ‘Jane Eyre’ — Someday, I would like to ask Leslie Van Houten if she’s ever read “The White Album,” Joan Didion’s famous essay about the Tate-LaBianca murders. That essay (and the book which bears the same title) begins with Didion’s best known sentence: “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”

Sometimes it’s not the big shots but the so-called ‘ordinary people’ who turn out to be unsung heroes in your life. By the time newspaper heiress Patty Hearst was captured in 1975, I knew something was off. In less than two years, my career had skyrocketed. The distance between my…