*This article of mine is published on CNN.* Donald Trump’s first major trip overseas may be fraught with diplomatic land mines for the President, but the Trump administration can at least comfort itself with the clear hit that Melania Trump has been with the Saudi press. The fact that Melania is communicating with the media […]
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Maternity leave? What maternity leave? The news never sleeps so four days after giving birth to my second child, I found myself making my CNN New Day weekend debut. I spoke about Trump’s first overseas trip which kicked off in Saudia Arabia where Trump, in addition to signing a multi-billion dollar arms deal with the Kingdom,
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I made my CNN International debut last week, and I guess the cat is officially out of the bag: I am 9 months pregnant. But that was not the topic of my segment which was something else that I love to talk about: the corruption of the Trump Administration appointing Ivanka as whatever they feel
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*This post of mine is published on CNN.* As the President got ready to sell his latest executive order to the American public, an overhaul of the H-1B skilled worker visa program, under his “Buy American, Hire American” slogan, Ivanka Trump appeared to be busy protecting the real emerald of the Trump family’s vast business
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*This post of mine is published on The Huffington Post & The Daily Ittefaq.* Days after America’s first military strikes on Syria the only coherent message we are getting from the Trump administration is that they have no clear policy beyond their initial attack against the Syrian government. As U.S. Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson and
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This week’s PBS’ To The Contrary honestly felt like one of or strongest episodes. There was less shouting, mainly due to the absence of a certain panelist, and more substantive conversation about policy and politics. We tackled Gorsuch and the GOP going “nuclear” over his nomination for the Supreme Court, what he means for women’s reproductive
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*This post of mine is published on CNN.* Despite previously stating that she would not take on an official role in her father’s administration, Ivanka Trump is now moving into an advisory position in the White House. Just like Donald Trump, Ivanka has significant conflicts of interests — both nationally and internationally — to navigate around,
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Never a dull moment in Washington these days, but last week I returned to CNN to talk about Republican versus Democratic leadership. With the Democrats voting in Tom Perez over Keith Elison, who is both Muslim and African-American, there is no denying that there was an initial feeling of being let down as the latter was
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It has been four years since my PBS To The Contrary debut, which also was my American TV debut, but I have to say that this week’s show was one of my favorites. We discussed the social safety net under Trump, the Black women NASA scientists of Hidden Figures and more, but my favorite part
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Although Trump ran on a largely anti-Muslim campaign and made a proposed “Muslim Ban” a key promise of his candidacy, few thought he would actually be able to pull it off given something called the US Constitution. But by tweaking the language of his latest executive order to stipulate nationality over religion, on Friday Trump
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