Petula Dvorak

Dvorak: The anti-Ivana Trump: Why Ronald Reagan’s ex-wife refused to dish about him

October 16, 2017 at 9:58 a.m.

The back-and-forth between Ivana Trump and Melania Trump shows how far we've come from the Reagan years, when it was considered bad taste for ex-spouses to dish on each other.

How a despondent veteran helped make the Golden Gate Bridge a suicide destination

August 6, 2017 at 11:55 p.m.

The dynamic San Francisco fog was beginning its creep across the Bay, as it does most summer afternoons, when the bus doors swung open and Harold B. Wobber stepped off...

Cedar Hill, the Washington home of Frederick Douglass.

Dvorak: Trump’s gaffe on Frederick Douglass isn’t the problem; relegating him to Black History Month is

February 9, 2017 at 10:00 a.m.

Frederick Douglass' life and struggle shouldn't be a seasonal affair dragged out during the shortest month of the year when a politician wants to check off a demographic or make...

President Barack Obama walks off stage with first lady Michelle Obama after delivering his farewell speech on Jan. 10 in Chicago.

Dvorak: The Obamas were a master class in dignity and civility

January 19, 2017 at 4:38 p.m.

This is when grace leaves the White House. The Obamas set a remarkable standard for personal decency and civility during their years as our first family.

In this May 17, 2016, file photo, a new sticker designates a gender neutral bathroom at Nathan Hale high school in Seattle.

Dvorak: Apparently, Virginia has its very own Minister of Private Parts

January 6, 2017 at 2:16 p.m.

Politicians who fixate on their own personal obsessions rather than putting their power to work solving real issues - schools, traffic, unemployment, housing - deserve our scorn.

Phyllis Gray in 2005 after her third son, Carlos Phillips, was shot and killed. On Sept. 17, a fourth son, Alonzo Phillips, 31, was killed at a community barbecue in Southeast Washington, D.C.

Dvorak: Four murdered sons, no charges. Did these black lives matter?

October 1, 2016 at 5:00 p.m.

Phyllis Gray is 53 and tired. Tired of the calls, tired of the funerals, tired of T-shirts with the faces of four dead sons. Tired of no justice.

When Hungarian swimmer Katinka Hossz煤 shattered a world record in the Olympic 400-meter individual medley, NBC commentators were quick to credit her husband/coach for her success.

Dvorak: Women make history and their husbands get the credit

August 13, 2016 at 5:00 p.m.

What's really important, in this throwback summer of 2016, isn't women's Olympic achievements. It's who her husband is and what he's accomplished.

This January 2015 booking photo released by the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office shows Brock Turner, the former Stanford swimmer who was sentenced last week to six months in jail and three years' probation for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman.

Dvorak: The happy privileged face of the campus predator

June 7, 2016 at 4:51 p.m.

Bring it on -- the brilliant smile of a Stanford swimmer with Olympic dreams, the happy privileged face of a white college kid named Brock Turner.

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