Author: SUZANNE FIELDS

Every four years we get not only a presidential election but also a ferocious debate over how we elect the president. Is this really the best way to elect the leader of the United States and, by default, the leader of the free world? Must we be satisfied with campaigns that become carnivals of trash […]

So much anticipation, so little satisfaction. So much hype, so little substance. The first debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was advertised as a championship fight between two eager brawlers. Both were expected to find the other’s weak spot, hammer away, punch, counterpunch and finally knock the other out. But this was no Rumble […]

When Hillary Clinton lost to Barack Obama in 2008, the idea of scoring a first for women was trumped by the appeal of electing the first black president. She was a senator then and didn’t want to emphasize the differences in men and women in their approach to making policy. This time, you’ll hear Clinton […]

Do blondes really have more fun? That’s a question often thrown at a serious woman with brainy gray matter under her golden tresses. The popular perception that blondes paid for those tresses with diminished intellectual power remains pervasive in the culture. (You could Google it.) But it’s specifically used as a cudgel by the left […]