With Brand Trump hawking everything from shoes to hotels on the back steps of the White House, the line between consumerism and politics has almost completely disappeared. Money and politics isn’t a new song. The Koch...
The day of Trump’s inauguration, my daughter’s fourth grade class watched the clock until it hit noon, when he took the oath of office. They thought something would happen when the world as they knew it changed. The country...
Arturo Di Modica, creator of the Wall Street Bull, is upset. There’s a 4’2” girl standing in front of his 7000 pound bull and he wants her to go away. He claims that she’s turned his capitalist bull into something...
A lot of jokes and snide comments have been made about the fact that Mike Pence does not dine alone with women other than his wife. A number of these comments have been made by me. This tidbit about Pence was first reported in...
I always thought I’d be one of those mothers who shops at the farmers market, magically composts in her New York apartment, wears upcycled clothing, and sips fair-trade pumpkin seed chai coconut milk lattes. But I’m...
By Maud Kersnowski Sachs A 50-inch, bronze statue of a pony-tailed, elementary schoolgirl is New York’s latest It-Girl. Even with a snowstorm moving in, the “Fearless Girl” statue in Lower Manhattan had a line of...
By Maud Kersnowski Sachs I have a confession: I own a pair of Ivanka Trump brand pants. I wish I could say that I bought them by mistake or that they were a gift or that I had a psychotic break, but I knew exactly what I was...
By Maud Kersnowski Sachs On the night of Monday, February 27th, swastikas were carved into the front doors of the Fourth Universalist Society in New York City. The day before, I had walked through those doors with my...
By Maud Kersnowski Sachs Lately, I’ve been dressing like a slob. I’m pretty much living in yoga pants and over-sized flannel shirts. But it was the shoes that made me realize there was problem: a pair of...
By Maud Kersnowski Sachs “We the People…” “Four score and seven years ago…” “I have a dream…” We all know these words. They are the words that we teach our children. They mark times of hope and inclusion...
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