Molly Jong-Fast
By Molly Jong-Fast
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Opinion I used to love the plagues – until I lived through one
BG IMG LINK Previous Article Next Article I used to love the plagues. Not anymore. I used to love the plagues until I lived through them. As a child, my most favorite moment of Passover, the otherwise endless family dinner which featured a gelatinous fish dish and an overcooked meat dish, was the plagues. After…
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Opinion That Ivanka Trump Art Exhibit Is More Real Than She Is
This week, the good people of America were treated to an artwork depicting none other than President Trump’s advisor/daughter Ivanka Trump. View this post on Instagram “While Ivanka smiles and vacuums, graciously, elegantly, willingly, for the duration of the performance, the viewer is the one who shifts the action, throwing a handful of crumbs from…
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Opinion Howard Schultz Is A Tone-Deaf Billionaire Who Thinks He Should Be President. Sound Familiar?
As America is held hostage by a “businessman president” who recently reopened the government after a 35 day temper tantrum that cost the American tax payers billions of dollars, another American businessman has emerged from the fray. Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, has got a bold new notion that our system is broken and he…
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Opinion Trump’s Shutdown Settles It: His Base Is About Racism, Not Jobs
Last night, President Trump spent a handful of minutes spewing falsehoods about the dangers of illegal aliens. He seemed somewhat deflated, not his usually Mussolini-esque self, as he drearily delivered the usual Stephen Miller-composed, combatively factless diatribe with a self-righteousness that can only be described as a classic in the genre of moral turpitude. The…
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Opinion Nancy Pelosi Is The Anti-Ivanka
Nancy Pelosi just won a historic victory: She was sworn in for a second term as Speaker of the House. When she won for the first time, Pelosi became the first woman to hold the Speakership. And after leading the Democrats through a blue wave in the midterms, she’s proven her ability to lead. She’s…
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Opinion Did Jared Kushner Learn To Fail Up From Trump?
Last week, we learned that in 2016, Jared Kushner was appointed to be the new Michael Cohen. That’s when Trump made his son-in-law “the main conduit between Trump and his friend David Pecker, the National Enquirer publisher and chief executive of AMI, who prosecutors said on Wednesday admitted to making a $150,000 hush-money payment ‘in…
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Opinion Jared Kushner’s Slavish Love For Fellow Princeling MBS
It started off like a fable, the two young princelings, one Jewish and one Arab, both modern and polished, both believing themselves to be their kingdoms great modernizers. But of course, it turned out to be something much more sinister. The bromance between Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son in law, and Mohammed bin Salman, the…
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Opinion What Is Ivanka Trump Selling?
Last weekend, while her father President Trump was wandering around the stage looking longingly at the blossoming friendship between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman and Vladimir Putin, Ivanka Trump was pressing the flesh at this year’s G-20 summit in Argentina. But it’s hard not to notice that the president’s favorite female has certainly been…
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