I know what it’s like to make big decisions in small rooms, separated from the rest of the world, alone with the weight of your choices. It seems, in fact, that such acts defined my government career. For six years, I was an official in the Obama administration, advising secretaries of state and ambassadors, spending…
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Missouri might become the first state without a single abortion services provider since 1974, the year after Roe v. Wade was enacted. The state’s last remaining abortion clinic—called the Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region—is currently at risk of losing its license and being forced to close by the end…
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We’ve known for a while now Prince Harry and Meghan Markle aren’t spending Valentine’s Day together this year. Unfortunately, royal duty calls for the Duke of Sussex: He’s currently in Bardufoss, Norway, visiting the Exercise Clockwork, an “annual winter exercise, based in one of the world’s most demanding environments—200 miles inside the Arctic Circle—which has…
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At first, my husband refused to spend $500 to ship a dining room table from Cleveland to New Jersey. He thought it made no sense. (“Why not just buy a table at Ikea?”) I pointed out that the deal included six chairs and four leaves, that it opened up to seat twenty people and that…
Read moreIn case you were worried, rest assured that yes, Khloé Kardashian‘s sisters did make it to Cleveland in time for the birth of her daughter on Thursday. In fact, as older sister Kim Kardashian West revealed on Twitter early Friday morning, she actually played a crucial role in helping Khloé deliver her baby. “I’m so…
Read moreFollowing Matt Lauer’s prompt termination from NBC over allegations of inappropriate sexual conduct, some of the former Today host’s on-air moments are now coming under (warranted) scrutiny. Take a Today show sexual harassment parody, aired in 2012, in which Lauer makes light of inappropriate sexual advances in the office and paints himself as a victim.…
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