First lady is a strange role. Even when your husband is the first black president, and you’re a Princeton and Harvard-educated former corporate lawyer, America still projects its most regressive ideas about gender onto you. So I understand that Michelle Obama, like Hillary Clinton before her (skipping Laura Bush, a more classical first lady, along
One leaves these stories not depressed, but wanting to punch the air in solidarity with these ornery old dudes
The vibe is one of full-throated fascination and adoration. Obsession – worship, even
The New York Times and the left assume that ‘strategic frostiness’ is one-way
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The singer changed her album cover that suggested ‘I like being roughed up in the bedroom’
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She knows the difference between celebrity opining and matters of life and death
The pleasure of life before was the open horizons of drink
Taiwanese officials talk tough. Are they as prepared as they claim?
Judit Polgár is so much more fascinating than her male counterparts
An interview with one of the show’s most vocal fans
She remains one of American literature’s great survivors — and provocateurs
Savage is no cookie-cutter lefty, for all his haranguing in favour of baroque sexual lifestyles
The legendary journalist weighs in on Russia, IQ, immigration and his forthcoming book on Christianity
The professor is blisteringly blunt about the woke ‘capture’ of institutions
Sexting has taken the place of sex
