Monica Hesse

Guest Commentary: What actually mattered in the Katie Hill scandal — and what didn’t

October 29, 2019 at 12:28 p.m.

This is where I'm supposed to say that California congresswoman Katie Hill was right to step down, women can be predators too, etc. etc., but still, the situation was sad...

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Hesse: Ignorance about the female body hurts us all

May 13, 2019 at 3:43 p.m.

I was trying to schedule a sonogram last year when my understanding of a basic scientific principle was totally upended. The nurse, attempting to discern how pregnant I might be,...

FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2018 file photo, Caster Semenya of South Africa crosses the finish line to win the women's 800 meters for Africa at the IAAF track and field Continental Cup in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Semenya's rollercoaster running career, jarred by an adverse court ruling on Wednesday, May 1, 2019, is unique in virtually all its details. Yet the dilemmas she has posed to the track-and-field establishment reflect how vast segments of the sports world are now wrestling with how best to deal with intersex and transgender athletes. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Guest commentary: Punishing Semenya for her genetics is wrong

May 2, 2019 at 2:19 p.m.

For about a decade -- a time that Olympic historians may someday classify as "the Michael Phelps era" -- I've been reading about the unique genetic blessings bestowed upon the...

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The hazards of asking male candidates whether they鈥檇 choose a female running mate

March 24, 2019 at 10:19 a.m.

Lately, a fashionable question for male 2020 presidential contenders requires them to pretend they've already won the Democratic nomination and they're now on the hunt for a running mate. Would...

NANTUCKET, MA - JANUARY 07: Actor Kevin Spacey (L) attends his arraignment on sexual assault charges with his lawyer Alan Jackson at Nantucket District Court on January 7, 2019 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. (Photo by Nicole Harnishfeger-Pool/Getty Images)

R. Kelly, Kevin Spacey, Louis CK: How pretending to be bad boys helped them get away with being bad men

January 11, 2019 at 12:01 p.m.

The Nantucket courtroom in which Kevin Spacey was arraigned Monday was a real courtroom, not a Hollywood set: instead of a dramatic mahogony judge's bench, it had a plastic laminate...

Hesse: The heiress has no clothes

July 27, 2018 at 4:57 p.m.

I once flew to Germany for 19 hours to watch Ivanka Trump sit on a panel with a bunch of female leaders, and to be summoned by her later that...

NBA star LeBron James wears a T-shirt reading "I Can't Breathe" before a Dec. 8, 2014, game. James and other players wearing the shirt were protesting the choking death of Eric Garner at the hands of a New York police officer.

Hesse: When tragedy strikes, celebrities are our new first responders

July 12, 2016 at 1:02 p.m.

Whenever ugly events summon headlines about "our divided nation," our celebrity class thrusts itself headfirst and wholeheartedly into the debate.

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