Molly Jong-Fast
By Molly Jong-Fast
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Opinion Ivanka Trump’s Privilege Blinds Her To Her Own Hypocrisy
I’m old enough to remember when Ivanka Trump was a feminist Democrat who was going to moderate her father’s racist policies. There was a time when I told myself that the employment of the president’s completely unqualified daughter was actually a good thing. After all, she had been a Democrat for years and so had…
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Opinion How Trump Turned A Horde Of Yoga Moms Like Me Into Radicals
I woke up on November 7, 2018 an entirely different person than I had been on November 9th, 2016. Over 24 months, I had gone from being normal to being radicalized, perhaps one might even say woke. I had gone from being completely selfish and disinterested in politics to completely obsessed. And I was not…
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Opinion Trump Is Using Ivanka As A Prop To Whitewash Anti-Semitism
Something you hear a lot from the right when you bring up the President’s penchant for inflammatory language that ignites neo-Nazis is that the president can’t possibly be anti-Semitic because he has a Jewish daughter. It’s a line we have heard uttered by almost every member of the Trump administration at one time or another,…
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Opinion How Ivanka Trump And Don Junior Weaponize Class — In Opposite Ways
Donald’s Trump’s money has been the subject of frequent discussion. Less often discussed is the question of class in relation to the President, or his family. But the class dynamics at work in the Trump clan — specifically, the way class is performed by the Trumps — provides a secret window into an important and…
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Opinion How The #HimToo Hashtag Restored My Faith In Humanity
Twitter and Trump go together like Jefferson Beauregard Sessions and racism, or Kim Kardashian and Instagram. They exist in a symbiotic relationship, a constantly reinforced feedback loop. Without Twitter, there would be no Trump. And given what we’ve learned about Russian troll farms, there would certainly be no President Trump. But in a way, Twitter…
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Opinion Thanks To Trump, Dr. Ford Was Laughed At. Again.
Christine Blasey Ford has had the kind of week nightmares are made of. Three weeks ago, she was a private citizen; today she is a public target — targeted by the most powerful man in the world. Last week, Doctor Ford sat down in front of a group of senators — 11 white Republican men…
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Opinion Brett Kavanaugh Was A ‘Cool Kid’ Who Thought He Owned The World. Maybe He Still Does.
In the weeks since Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings, not one, not two, but three women have stepped forward to accuse him of perpetrating or participating in sexual assault. The first charge was Doctor Christine Blasey Ford’s accusation of attempted rape. Ford accused Kavanaugh of holding her down, muffling her screams, and trying…
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Opinion I Got Conned By An Alt-Right Troll
My super-secret CIA contact had been working me for a year, feeding me supposedly “inside information,” before I began to suspect that he might not be totally on the level. I first “met” the magical “Mister Smith” in July of 2017. I was relatively new to the extremely online lifestyle which I have now (for…
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