Deana Haggag Leads USA's Fight To Protect The Arts Against Trump's Budget Knife

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Deana Haggag Leads USA's Fight To Protect The Arts Against Trump's Budget Knife

Deana Haggag made a strong statement about protecting the arts in America, now under the knife in the Trump administration. The new president and CEO of the philanthropic nonprofit United States Artists until Inauguration day, writes Vogue.com. “It wasn’t lost on me what it means to take on the title of president of an organization whose acronym is USA,” Haggag said recently during an interview in Chicago, her USA home base. 

Less than 100 days later, Haggag is facing Trump's proposed elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Indeed, Big Bird is under the knife. The arts in America represent about $741 million yearly, or less than one tenth of 1 percent of annual federal spending.

The arts generate $135.2 billion annually in a boost to the US economy -- a fact not lost on a growing list of Republicans in Congress, who are against these cuts. 

Male Supreme Court Justices Mansplain Judicial Law To Female Justices, New Study Concludes

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Male Supreme Court Justices Mansplain Judicial Law To Female Justices, New Study Concludes

If you thought America's female supreme court justices are spared the growing epidemic of 'mansplaining', think again. A new study of oral arguments from Northwestern University researchers found that as more women have joined the Supreme Court, "the reaction of the male justices and the male (lawyers) has been to increase their interruptions of the female justices."

Interruptions are often regarded as an assertion of power through verbal dominance, according to the study's authors Tonja Jacobi, a professor at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, and Dylan Schweers, a J.D. candidate at the school. If that's the case, then women in positions of power should be interrupted less. Yet at the pinnacle of legal power, female Supreme Court justices "are just like other women," they write for Scotusblog, "talked over by their male colleagues."

Gal Gadot Auditioned For 'Wonder Woman' Tuned To Beyoncé's 'Girls Rule The World'

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Gal Gadot Auditioned For 'Wonder Woman' Tuned To Beyoncé's 'Girls Rule The World'

Actor Gal Gadot covers the May 2017 cover of W Magazine, lensed by Craig McDean. The 'Wonder Woman' star is styled in Gucci, Prada, Diane von Furstenberg and more by new editor-in-chief of British Vogue Edward Enninful. 

Nadja Auermann Is Lensed By Van Mossevelde + N For Marie Claire France March 2017

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Nadja Auermann Is Lensed By Van Mossevelde + N For Marie Claire France March 2017

Model icon Nadja Auermann is styled by Anne Sophie Thomas in Celine, Dries van Noten, Nina Ricci, Yohji Yamamoto, Stella McCartney and more by Van Mossevelde + N for Marie Claire France March 2017.

 

Alina Asmus Captures 'Medina' For Marie Claire France April 2017

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Alina Asmus Captures 'Medina' For Marie Claire France April 2017

Photographer Alina Asmus and stylist Anne Sophie Thomas team up in a not-boring bag editorial, focusing on the 'Medina' or old Arab quarter for Marie Claire France April 2017./ Hair by Olivier de Vriendt; makeup by Helene Vasnier

Caroline Brasch Nielsen Is 'Lonely As a Cloud' By Alexandra Sophie For Harper's Bazaar UK May 2017

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Model Caroline Brasch Nielsen wanders through England's Wistman's Woods, styled in ethereal, dreamy spring fashions by Charlie Harrington. Alexandra Sophie captures the Danish beauty in 'Lonely As a Cloud' for Harper's Bazaar UK May 2017.

Legend has it that Wistman’s Wood was a sacred grove of the Druids and it was here that they held their pagan rituals. The Druids were the ancient religious leaders, scientists and researchers of the Celtic society. For centuries, there was a common misconception that Druids were only male. However, numerous historical records attest to the fact that there were in fact women among their ranks.  

Tacitus,  a senator and historian of the Roman Empire who dies in 117 AD, mentioned female Druids describing the slaughter of the Druids by Romans on the island of Mona in Wales. Women known as Banduri (female Druids) defended the island and cursed the invaders. Tacitus also observed that there was no distinction between the male and female rulers, and that the female Celts were very powerful.

Elsa Hosk Is Water Baby Lensed By David Roemer For Madame Figaro April 2017

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Elsa Hosk Is Water Baby Lensed By David Roemer For Madame Figaro April 2017

Victoria's Secret Angel Elsa Hosk goes natural, styled in little nothings by Julie Gillet. Photographer David Roemer flashes the Swedish water baby for Madame Figaro April 2017./ Makeup by Georgi Sandev; hair by Maxime Mace

Silja Magg Flashes Ajak, Grace, Jourdana, Lameka & Nykor-Nyakueinyang For Harper's Arabia April 2017

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Silja Maag Flashes Ajak, Grace, Jourdana, Lameka & Nykor-Nyakueinyang For Harper's Arabia April 2017

Models Ajak Deng, Grace Mahary, Jourdana Phillips, Lameka Fox and Nykhor-Nyakueinyang Paul are styled by Katie Trotter in a 'Welcome to the Issue' celebration of the kaleidoscope of color that defines fashion looks for spring/summer 2017. Photographer Silja Magg flashes the beauties for Harper's Bazaar Arabia April 2017.

NBC's Andrea Mitchell Says She's Never Seen Such A Lying White House In Her Long Career

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NBC's Andrea Mitchell Says She's Never Seen Such A Lying White House In Her Long Career

Veteran reporter Andrea Mitchell, NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent and host of MSNBC's 'Andrea Mitchell Reports' spares no words in her new interview for The Global Politico weekly podcast on world affairs in the Trump era.

Mitchell has covered every US president since Jimmy Carter and she declares that Trump is the most hostile to the press she's ever seen. Same for telling the truth, says the 70-year-old breast cancer survivor who outpaces reporters half her age. Mitchell is pushing back hard against a White House staff using the briefing room as a daily disinformation machine. Both the president and secretary of state are making every attempt to undermine the ability of reporters to do their job, says Mitchell. 

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Dylan Lynch is Her Sensual Best In Hamilton Maddox Images For Factice Magazine Spring 2017

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Model Dylan Lynch is styled by Justin Lynn in Hamilton Maddox images for Factice Magazine Spring 2017. / Hair by Nancilee Santos; makeup by Katelin Gan