Jess Lahitou

Nothing about his sexism is complicated. Right? According to election results, wrong.

Wayne Tracker. When I first came across this made-up alias, it didn’t speak to me like someone’s first and last name.

Four years ago, my husband took a job transfer to Bogota, Colombia.

What do you say? What do you say when the unthinkable happens?

Students at the University of Missouri and Yale have recently grabbed media attention for their protests against administrators and professors who fail to create a safe space for them on campus. In the latter, an email questioning the prudence of restricting Halloween costumes stirred uproar, causing this video of a student publicly berating her professor to go viral.

Last night, the saga continued. Fox Business Network hosted the fourth Republican Primary debate, with a slightly winnowed set of contenders: the top eight candidates were on stage, compared with ten in the previous showdown.

The 2016 election has, for a while now, felt eerily akin to 1984 (lots ‘o doublespeak coming out of Trump and his supporters). Or The Hunger Games, to take a more recent example of dystopian genre fiction. Wherein, government becomes solely about politics and the media spectacle, rather than actual policies and ideas.

That’s what Syria is — our morally bankrupt foreign policy, impossible to escape, impossible to fix.

Dear Mr. Morgan,

The workings of Congress are pretty fascinating. If you like The Borgias, The Tudors, Game of Thrones, House of Cards, then following the seemingly innocuous happenings in DC is a fascinating enterprise. You know that this is where the real action happens.