*This article of mine is published on CNN.* On the heels of the World Cup final and the eve of Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, in Helsinki, Finland, Hillary Clinton took a jab at her former presidential campaign rival. She tweeted, “Great World Cup. Question for President Trump as he meets Putin: Do …
*This post of mine is also published on Women in the World/ The New York Times.* Whether you’re voting for Hillary or Trump or neither, it is hard to argue that the one consistent theme that has plagued the 2016 presidential race has been toxic misogyny. From the Republican nominee’s bragging in a 2005 leaked …
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*This post of mine is also published on The Daily Ittefaq.* It feels like Independence Day here in Washington as America wakes up to history with Hillary Clinton securing the Democratic presidential nomination, officially becoming the first woman in America’s 240 year history to lead the presidential ticket of a major political party, as CNN …
Hillary Clinton may have made history this week, but despite crushing her opponent the polls predicted a narrow win and a close competition. And even though Clinton won the biggest prize, California, and became the first woman to ever win a major party’s nomination in the US’ 240 year history, Bernie Sanders refuses to concede, …
Battle of the parties or battle of the sexes? The race for the White House is in full speed, and Trump and Clinton have apparently have decided who they are up against: each other. Instead of backtracking on his revoltingly offensive comments about Clinton, Trump has decided to double-down it seems, blaming her on Monday …
Although many have all but written off Bernie Sanders’ chances of securing the Democratic nomination, Hillary stipulated on CNN that she does not consider herself the presumptive nominee, despite it now being mathematically impossible for Sanders to win at this point. I went on CNN’s Newsroom to talk about what Clinton needs from Sanders, focusing …
There were no shortage of sexist comments that came from the Trump Camp last week. But as it becomes increasingly clear that the Donald will indeed end up being the Republican nominee, and face off towards Clinton in November, the more of his misogynistic self is being exposed to the public. It was great to …
It is becoming frighteningly clear by the day that Donald Trump will end up winning the Republican nomination, and it has never been more clear that America needs Hillary Clinton. At the beginning of the year, I wrote about why America needs a female President, mainly because it is ranked so poorly globally when it …
After Fmr. US Secretary of State, Madeline Albright and feminist icon, Gloria Steinem suggested a few weeks back that young women are entitled to vote for Hillary it seemed as though the Clinton campaign would not recover from making millennial women feel obligated to vote for Hillary solely based on her gender, not her policies. …
So much controversy has erupted over Gloria Steinem and fmr. Secretary of State, Madeline Albright’s apparent chiding of younger women voters that personally, I am annoyed by the story. And that is exactly what I said when I went on CNN with Democratic strategist, Hillary Rosen. Although the clip shows the part of the segment during which …