Heather Wilhelm – Page 11

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop at Old National Events Plaza, Thursday, April 28, 2016, in Evansville, Ind.

The upside of an insane election

May 11, 2019 at 3:15 a.m.

Say what you will about Donald Trump, bless his gold-plated heart, but he's had one heck of a week. On Tuesday, when voters in five East Coast states went to...

Gavin Grimm is shown on his front porch during an interview at his home in Gloucester, Va., in August 2015. A U.S. appeals court has overturned a policy barring a transgender student from using the boys' restrooms at his Virginia high school. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday, April 19, 2016 that the Gloucester County School Board policy is discriminatory.

Another dispatch from the transgender bathroom wars

May 11, 2019 at 3:14 a.m.

On Tuesday, a federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled that a local school district must teach students that up is down, right is left, 2 + 2 = 5...

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory signed a bill that restricts access to public restrooms based on the sex users were assigned at birth.

Why the transgender bathroom wars matter

May 11, 2019 at 3:13 a.m.

Decades ago, when Americans imagined 2016, hopeful citizens visualized groovy innovations like widely available personal jetpacks, easily accessible moon bases and "futuristic" fashion trends that looked suspiciously like neon 1980s...

Ugly manners: When life imitates the Internet

May 11, 2019 at 3:12 a.m.

On Tuesday, Florida Gov. Rick Scott got a jolt at a Gainesville Starbucks, but it wasn't from sugar, excessive caffeine or a new over-the-counter social justice campaign. Those things would...

During a campaign rally Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reads a statement made by Michelle Fields, a former reporter for Breitbart News Service who alleges that Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski assaulted her at a recent press conference, on March 29, 2016 in Janesville, Wis.

When getting Trump-handled isn’t just an illusion

May 11, 2019 at 3:11 a.m.

I'll start with a disclaimer: I'm not a big believer in the "War on Women." In a world wildly overrun with various strains of social justice warrior nonsense, paired with...

Donald Trump and the ‘affluenza’ crisis at Emory

May 11, 2019 at 3:09 a.m.

In 2013, Ethan Couch, a well-off Texas teenager, killed four people. With a potent cocktail of marijuana and Valium in his system, he was driving on a restricted license. His...

Donald Trump and the post-truth election

May 11, 2019 at 3:08 a.m.

On Tuesday, The New York Times ran a lengthy profile of the Republican presidential front-runner, a man who is many things, but certainly never boring. Titled "A King in His...

The ‘girl power’ movement sidelines boys

May 11, 2019 at 3:07 a.m.

A few weeks ago, I took my three young children to a stage show called "Wild Kratts Live." The hugely popular broadcast program on PBS Kids features two enthusiastic, middle-aged...

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie talks to the media March 3, 2016, in Trenton about his support for presidential candidate Donald Trump.

The rise of the sudden Donald Trump groupies

May 11, 2019 at 3:05 a.m.

If there's one lesson America should learn from this never-ending, thrill-a-minute, laugh-a-minute, sob-a-minute 2016 primary season, it's this: Never go full Chris Christie. Poor Christie. The increasingly unpopular New Jersey...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gives a thumbs up Feb. 20, 2016, during a Republican primary night event in Spartanburg, S.C. Trump walked away the winner in the South Carolina Republican primary.

3 Donald Trump myths, busted

May 11, 2019 at 3:04 a.m.

Say what you will about 2016, but it's never boring. From privileged college students at elite universities suffering mental breakdowns over the burdens of their campus "social justice activism" —...

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