Alana Moceri

Team Trump’s Group Therapy Session

It’s been described as a ring-kissing ceremony, the opening scene from King Lear and the type of standard fare from dictators like Kim Jong Un. Glen Thrush described it as “one of the most exquisitely awkward public events I’ve ever seen.” This may all be quite true and amusing, but I think there’s a better explanation for what went down in the White House Cabinet Room on Monday. (read the article in The Huffington Post)

Making America Dispensable Again

Trump’s trip left a big impression on our European allies. So much, that German Chancellor Angela Merkel turned around and announced at a campaign rally that “the times when we could completely rely on others are, to an extent, over.” (read the article in The Huffington Post)

President Big Mouth

"The shit show that is the Trump presidency came to a head on Monday with the Washington Post revelation that his couldn’t keep his mouth shut in front of two top Russian officials. He actually bragged to these guys, telling them “I get great intel. I have people brief me on great intel every day.” (read the article in The Huffington Post)

How To Burst Your Own Private Media Bubble

"A friend I tend to agree with shared an article on Facebook from the (conservative) National Review, commenting that the magazine’s readers didn’t appreciate it. I had been mulling over the left wing freak out over the New York Times’ new columnist Bret Stephens’ first piece and relished finding a similar example on the right. So, I clicked through and gave “Inequality and the Fracturing of American Democracy” a read and I was glad I did. Then I took a look through the comments on their Facebook feed and found that the top ones were actually appreciative of the article’s intellectual challenge to both right and left wing thinking." (read the article in The Huffington Post)

Jimmy Kimmel is Wrong About One Thing

"For Republicans, it does matter how much money you make.

It’s not surprising that Jimmy Kimmel’s touching monologue about his son’s congenital heart disease went viral on the social networks. It was heartfelt and touched upon a touchy and timely subject, healthcare. He also included a noble call for left-right unity and understanding, but he made one wrong assumption." (read the article in The Huffington Post)

Ivanka Trump is an anti-feminist in feminist clothing

"She might be worshiped by Chinese women for her beauty and style but the European women who attended the W20 Summit on Tuesday were having none of it and promptly booed Ivanka Trump when she had the audacity to say that her father is a champion of women." (read the article in The Huffington Post)

Mike Pence, Sex and How Both Ghettoize Women

"I picked a fight with some male co-workers a couple weeks ago. They had put together a day of conferences about the international relations of the Trump presidency and out of 10 panelists, only 3 were women, including me and the first panel had no women at all. This happens all the time in Spain, but the U.S. isn’t all that different. Only 24% of foreign affairs and security guests booked during weekday cable and Sunday programming are women, 76% are men. This is so common that I’ve made a hobby out of retweeting photos of all-bro panels and with the hashtag #wherearethewomen?" (read the article in The Huffington Post)

Did the UK Threaten to Go to War with Spain?

"There I was, an American, Skyped in to the very British Sky News to talk about the showdown between Spain and the UK over Gibraltar. Gibraltar, you ask, as in ‘the rock’? Yes, the very one! I decided in advance that it was my job to smack everyone upside the head so I prepped some name calling and went after a British leader as a hysterical warmonger and accused Spanish leaders of being moral relativists. I righteously asked, who’s thinking about the best interests of the people of Gibraltar?" (read the article in The Huffington Post)

Angela Merkel Doesn’t Need Your Outrage Over Trump’s Rudeness

"Trump’s abominable behavior during German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit to the White House caused outrage on my Facebook feed. But Merkel doesn’t need your outrage. She’s taken on plenty of outsized egos with her signature steely patience, from Nicolas Sarkozy to Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Vladimir Putin. What she needs you to to do is understand the importance of the world order, whose fate seems to rest on her shoulders." (read the article in The Huffington Post)

No, You Can’t Escape Trump By Moving Abroad

"Well, I’m here to tell you that if you think you can ride off into the sunset and just give the next four years of Trump a miss, you are sorely mistaken. Not only is living abroad a lot harder than you might imagine, even if you get there, there’s no escaping Trump. No matter where you go, he will dog you." (read the article in The Huffington Post)