If you’re under the age of 35, you’ve been there. Show an interest in transient, material things — such as fashion or pop culture — and you’re tsked for not focusing on more important issues.
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In a November 10 article for The Guardian, A Black Man in the White House author Cornell Belcher calls Donald Trump’s electoral victory an “inevitable” response to the last eight years, saying that the GOP candidate “took full advantage of a racial backlash to the presidency of Barack Obama.”
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AS OF June 7th’s presidential primaries, Hillary Clinton is now actually the inevitable Democratic presidential nominee. That this is historic is not debatable; she’s the…
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I CAST MY FIRST BALLOT in November 2008. At the time, I had a lot of anxieties about the significance of my vote and its…
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ADMITTEDLY, we don’t watch much FOX News here at Lady Clever. The kind of race-baiting, fear-mongering, biased “reporting” the network engages in — placing zero…
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LET’S GET ONE THING STRAIGHT: women voters decide elections. Thrown behind the biggest issues of our day, with ballots to back it up, our voting…
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AT ANY GIVEN TIME, in any group of people, I’m the person who says, “Hey, have you seen that new documentary?” Of course, hardly anyone…
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THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION is unlike anything we’ve seen in the U.S. Widespread dissatisfaction on the right may lead many Republicans to pass on the…
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JOHN KASICH recently made headlines — and probably a few enemies — thanking his women supporters for leaving the kitchen to campaign. The truly bizarre…
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KANSAS STATE SENATOR MITCH HOLMES made waves when his dress code for testifiers surfaced online. Republican Holmes wrote his 11-point guide for individuals who testify before…
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MONDAY’S 2016 IOWA DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS ended in its closest result since the 1970s: Hillary Clinton, 49.9%; Bernie Sanders, 49.6%. Both camps declared it a win,…
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