Tag: Gender Issues

Michael Wolff told Bill Maher recently he was "absolutely sure" the president is currently carrying out an extramarital affair, gesturing towards a passage in "Fire and Fury" that appears to be this one: "The president had been spending a notable amount of private time with Haley on Air Force One and was seen to be grooming her for a national political future."

Beltway Confidential

A sexist smear against Nikki Haley

Emily Jashinsky · January 29, 2018 3:35 pm

Scots voted to remain British just over three years ago. That vote, all sides agreed in advance, would settle the issue for a generation. But when Britain voted to leave the European Union shortly afterwards, the leader of the Scottish government, Nicola Sturgeon, thought she saw an opportunity to reopen the issue, because Scotland, unlike England and Wales, had voted to stay in.

Daniel Hannan: Put out more flags

Dan Hannan · January 29, 2018 5:01 am

Steve Wynn is accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct going back decades. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Susan Collins: GOP colleagues should give back Steve Wynn donations

Laura Barrón-López · January 28, 2018 6:40 pm

"No, I wouldn't say I'm a feminist. I mean, I think that would be, maybe, going too far," the president said during a sit-down interview with Piers Morgan. "I'm for women, I'm for men, I'm for everyone." (Screen shot)

Trump tells Piers Morgan: ‘I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist’, but rather ‘for everyone’

Katie Leach · January 28, 2018 12:45 am

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley dismissed rumors alleging that she is having an affair with President Trump. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Beltway Confidential

Politico was right to ask Nikki Haley about that rotten rumor alleging she’s having an affair with Trump

Becket Adams · January 26, 2018 8:04 pm

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shielded a top adviser who was accused of sexually harassing a staffer, according to a report. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Hillary Clinton shielded top adviser accused of sexual harassment in 2008: Report

Caitlin Yilek · January 26, 2018 5:04 pm

Plaintiff Ssg Katie Schmid, center, speaks while a Lambda Legal senior attorney Peter Renn, Human Campaign communications director Chris Sgro, and Gender Justice League executive director Danni Askini listen following a hearing on a motion for preliminary injunction in the case of Karnoski v. Trump hearing. (Stephen Brashear/AP Images for Human Rights Campaign)

National Security

Troops suing Trump ask judge to abolish transgender ban

Travis J. Tritten · January 26, 2018 3:02 pm

A recent editorial in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's official student school newspaper says that calling someone "honey" implies an imbalance of power. (screenshot)

Red Alert Politics

College editorial board takes feminism to new heights condemning pet names ‘honey’ and ‘hon’

John Patrick · January 26, 2018 3:53 am

It's a time-tested routine with few surprises by the time we reach Oscar season: A handful of films shock and awe at niche film festivals around the world and land at the Oscars to the surprise of American audiences. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Beltway Confidential

What to watch before the 2018 Oscars

Stephen Kent · January 25, 2018 10:05 pm

Vice President Mike Pence touches the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool photo via AP)

Beltway Confidential

Female journalists experience Western Wall’s longstanding gender segregation rules, and it’s Mike Pence’s fault somehow

Becket Adams · January 25, 2018 8:26 pm

In a statement responding to questions about women's rights, Missouri Republican Senate primary candidate Courtland Sykes said: "I want to come home to a home cooked dinner at six every night, one that she [Sykes' fiancee] fixes and one that I expect one day to have daughter learn to fix after they become traditional homemakers and family wives — think Norman Rockwell here, and Gloria Steinem be damned." (Picture via SykesforSenate / Twitter)

GOP Senate candidate on women’s rights: ‘I want to come home to a cooked dinner every night’

Mandy Mayfield · January 25, 2018 7:33 pm

Judge Rosemarie Aquilina listens to Abigayle Bergeron's victim statement during the sixth day of Larry Nassar's sentencing hearing Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018, in Lansing, Mich. Nassar has admitted sexually assaulting athletes when he was employed by Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics, which is the sport's national governing organization and trains Olympians. (Dale G. Young/Detroit News via AP)

Beltway Confidential

Judge Rosemarie Aquilina is no hero, she’s a bad example

Jenna Ellis · January 25, 2018 4:53 pm