Tag: Gender Issues

Casino mogul Steve Wynn.

UPenn to remove Steve Wynn’s name from campus plaza, revoke honorary degree

Melissa Quinn · February 1, 2018 7:52 pm

MSNBC television anchor Mika Brzezinski asked author Michael Wolff if he regretted "inferring anything about Nikki Haley?" Wolff claimed that he "didn't infer anything about Nikki Haley" but said, "many of the people around [President Trump] believe that he is involved with various women." (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Mika Brzezinski confronts Michael Wolff on ‘disgraceful’ Nikki Haley affair rumor: ‘You’re slurring a woman’

Eddie Scarry · February 1, 2018 12:57 pm

Michael Wolff said Nikki Haley "seems to have embraced" the rumor that he started. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)

Michael Wolff: Nikki Haley ’embraced’ rumors of affair with Trump

Caitlin Yilek · January 31, 2018 5:44 pm

National Security

Angelina Jolie visits NATO to talk about sexual violence in conflict zones

Meghana Kurup · January 31, 2018 10:17 am

The Republican State Leadership Committee launching specific female-focused candidate recruitment efforts, and the National Republican Congressional Committee has elevated Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., to head up their candidate recruitment efforts. But while so much attention is being paid to the importance of elevating women to office, it is possible Republicans will end 2018 with fewer Republican women in the House of Representatives than they started with. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

Is the Republican congresswoman an endangered species?

Kristen Soltis Anderson · January 31, 2018 5:07 am

A University of California, Berkeley, student has said she sat the Women's March out because it wasn't radical enough. (screenshot)

Red Alert Politics

Women’s March not radical enough for UC Berkeley students

John Patrick · January 31, 2018 5:01 am

#MeToo women — a group undoubtedly including some pro-life women — are trying to eradicate violence, threats, and abuses of power. (iStock Photo)

In the ‘Me Too’ moment, the tenets of the sexual revolution prevent a true ‘reckoning’

Timothy P. Carney · January 31, 2018 12:13 am

In a statement, Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, likened his boycott of President Trump's State of the Union address to the civil rights, women's suffrage, and the LGBTQ movements in addition to the Boston Tea Party. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

No, Al Green, boycotting the State of the Union isn’t as righteous as the civil rights movement

Siraj Hashmi · January 30, 2018 11:59 pm

Janelle Monae introduced a performance by Kesha by lumping in the MeToo movement against sexual harassment and assault with other issues such as the gender pay gap. However, it would be disappointing if right-leaning and independent women, who don't support new regulations that are often championed as a way to close the wage gap, leave the conversation because of where the movement is being led. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)

Beltway Confidential

The Grammys’ #MeToo moment signals a dangerous direction for the movement

Patrice Onwuka · January 30, 2018 9:21 pm

The White House and GOP lawmakers are scrambling following news that Steve Wynn, the Las Vegas mogul and former Republican National Committee finance chair, is a prolific sexual predator. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Beltway Confidential

Like Roy Moore, Trump knew what he was getting into with Steve Wynn

Becket Adams · January 30, 2018 7:00 pm

"There is an investigation that is going to take place," Ronna McDaniel said. "He should be allowed due process, and if he is found of any wrongdoing, we will absolutely return 100 percent of that money. But we're going to let due process take place."

Ronna McDaniel: RNC will return Steve Wynn donations if an investigation into sexual misconduct shows wrongdoing

Melissa Quinn · January 30, 2018 4:04 pm

The Women's March was the first tip-off that the new wave of feminism is less about equality of the sexes and more about revenge of one sex against another.

Beltway Confidential

America is waking up to the farce that is feminism

Suzanne Venker · January 30, 2018 5:01 am