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Megan Rapinoe, star of Reign FC, the U.S. women’s national soccer team and MVP of the 2019 Women’s World Cup, singled out Colin Kaepernick in a speech Monday as she accepted an award for being one of Glamour magazine’s women of the year, saying, “I don’t feel like I would be here without” him. She began her remarks with a lighthearted “shout-out to women this year. Every woman! We’re just killing it the whole year. So shout-out to just women in general.” Then she turned more serious. Delivering a message that “we can move on from losing alone to the...

“Dress for the job you want, not the job you have.” It’s advice we’ve all likely heard at some point throughout our careers. In fact, I’m pretty sure I’ve written it in the pages of a magazine at least once in the near decade I’ve worked in fashion. The thinking goes as follows: If you want your bosses to see you as someone who can take on more authority, you need to act that way. Part of that demonstration is in how you present yourself. For thin women, it’s good advice. I can still recall the outfits I wore to...

Within even the last 12 months, there’s been a shift in how we talk about climate change. What we once framed as a serious but distant threat is now an imminent catastrophe, with implications that are hard even to imagine. And as the crisis deepens, all the other issues we face - from public health to national security to immigration - will become that much more complicated to address. It’s no surprise that as sea levels rise, people who live in coastal cities will be at greater risk for flood or that parts of sub-Saharan African will have to contend...

I'm scared of America without him': Meghan McCain opens up about her father Sen John McCain's cancer battle and says he needs to be here to fight 'for what we believe in' Meghan McCain, a co-host on The View, told Glamour magazine that she's 'scared of America without him' as she opened up about his cancer battle The 33-year-old talk show host told the magazine that he needs to be here to 'fight for that what we believe in' Sen John McCain was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a rare and often terminal form of brain cancer last year and has been...

Women must vote in the midterms because politics are now personally affecting their right to have an abortion, Glamour’s editor-in-chief, who screamed with “joy and pride” when Ireland decriminalized abortion, wrote Tuesday. Samantha Barry emphasized the importance of women voting in the upcoming midterm elections in order to protect the “right” to abortion, she wrote in her op-ed. Barry claimed Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh might try to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision, which could affect women in “deeply intimate ways.” The so-called right to abortion is an important factor for women to consider when voting in...

Barack Obama's campaign has booted from its airplane three reporters who work for newspapers that have endorsed John McCain. The campaign says that a limited number of seats forced it to make the tough decision of which journalists would be permitted to follow the Democratic presidential candidate in the last four days of the campaign, but the papers are calling foul, claiming they were targeted for their editorial-page positions and kicked off while nonpolitical publications like Glamour and Jet magazines remained on board. Eliminated from the plane's traveling press were the Washington Times, the New York Post and the Dallas...

“Welcoming the brilliant new editor of @vanityfair, Radhika Jones. And yes, those are fox tights in everyone’s hands, courtesy of Anna Wintour,” Glamour Editor Cindi Leive posted on Instagram. Jones was slammed back in November by Women’s Wear Daily for wearing a navy shift dress and a pair of similar tights that staffers were purportedly “aghast” over.

A pervasive anti-Conservative attitude has long been present in awards shows and ceremonies, but the exclusion of women who do not lean full tilt for the “progressive” ideology is more damaging to society than most. It is sad but true that young women look to places like Glamour for role-models and information, yet all they are being presented is carbon-copy ideologies in the guise of “strong women.” This year’s winners included such divisive figures as Maxine Waters, the organizers of the Women’s March, and Samantha Bee (who started the “Nasty Woman” T-shirt campaign to raise $1 million for Planned Parenthood)....

(snip)Watch it all in real-time on Glamour's Facebook Live channel.(snip) 9:15 AM: Chelsea Clinton and Laverne Cox on How to Persist and Repeat. With Alex Wagner, CBS new anchor and contributing editor at The Atlantic, moderating, Women of the Year 2014 honorees Chelsea Clinton and Laverne Cox discuss how to keep pushing when the world is pushing back. The two start the talk by sharing how much love they have for each other. For example, when Chelsea was "about to pop" with her second child, Laverne asked her if she was having "a boy, girl, or trans?" As the talk...

While Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump engaged in golf diplomacy, their wives spent time Sunday learning about Japanese pearl cultivation in Tokyo’s top luxury shopping district. Akie Abe and Melania Trump visited the flagship Ginza store of accessories firm Mikimoto, which has long been an official jeweler to the Imperial family. Kokichi Mikimoto, the brand’s founder, created the world’s first cultured pearl in 1893. The company now harvests the pearls offshore from an island in Mie Prefecture. The pair warmly greeted each other at the store before speaking with two ama, traditionally trained female divers who...

Glamour Magazine announced its decision to rank Linda Sarsour one of its ten "2017 Women of the Year" awardees. All of the awardees, Glamour claimed, are "game changers, rule breakers, and trailblazers." Sarsour, an Arab-American anti-Israel activist, misrepresented a Political Action Commitee (PAC) as a fund for Hurricane Harvey relief. Critics accuse her of trying to exploit the hurricane that devastated the region for political aims. In August, she tweeted, "Donate to the Harvey Hurricane relief fund." The fund's website stated that "your donation is vital to ensuring that we have the resources we need to organize and fight for...

How does defending sharia law translate into feminist intersectionality? For the Women’s March, it’s a key part of their work. Glamour Magazine is willing to buy into this fake intersectionality. The latest issue, named Linda Sarsour one of its Glamour 2017 Women of the Year. As a co-chair of the Women’s March, Sarsour has been honored by Time Magazine and defended by the New York Times as a target of “right-wing hate.” But no one has pointed out that Sarsour has actually promoted Sharia law as beneficial.

Terry Richardson, a fashion photographer accused of sexually exploiting models, has been banned from working with top magazines such as Vogue and GQ, according to a report. Richardson, 52, has been accused by multiple women of pressuring them into sex when they worked together, though he has still landed high-profile clients despite allegations three years ago that led to outlets such as American Vogue saying they did not plan to work with him again. In the aftermath of worldwide sexual abuse allegations including rape against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, the ban on Richardson has now extended to properties across Condé...

The Trump White House may be the single most inconsistent Presidential administration in American history. Nothing stays the same at 1600 Pennsylvania for more than 24 hours, and that includes the President’s hairstyle. But there is one constant, one island of sanity in the churning oceans of Trumpian DC life, marred further by media, White House officials, Sean Spicer press briefings, old Russians, fidget spinners, and Twitter. Melania. Melania Trump is as radiant as Paul Ryan is ripped. As Bernie Sanders is woke. As Steve Bannon is pre-diabetic. Every time she steps out of the official residence or off Marine...

When they decided to print special collectors’ covers for the magazine’s September issue, all about “icons of change”, the publishers of Elle knew immediately who the stars should be: the actors Kristen Stewart and Amandla Stenberg, both of whom have made headlines for their refusal to conform to traditional notions of sexuality; the singer Zayn Malik, who walked away from One Direction, the biggest pop band in the world, at the height of its fame; and the transgender model Hari Nef. Nef’s cover is arguably the most radical of the four. It marks the first time a transgender woman has...

The mainstream media have been hysterical this week in their response to Donald Trump’s revocation of the Washington Post’s campaign press credentials in response to coverage and headlines so unfair that the paper went back and changed them. Yet those same media outlets remained silent in 2008 when the Obama presidential campaign booted 3 major newspapers that had been writing unfavorably about the campaign off its press plane. Joe Concha of Mediaite remembers what happened 8 years ago, and contrasts the media response in the two instances: The year was 2008. The candidate had a big lead in the polls...

The husband of a cop killed on 9/11 returned his wife’s posthumous Woman of the Year award to Glamour after the magazine gave the same honor last week to Caitlyn Jenner. James Smith told The Post he yanked the award off the shelf in his Long Island home dedicated to his wife, Moira, and FedExed it back to the magazine. Moira, who died at the age of 38 after rushing into the south tower, was honored by the magazine a month after her death. But after Jenner, 66, was anointed last week, Smith told the magazine’s editor, Cindi Leive, to...

As Isaac gathers steam in the Gulf and the elephants gather steam in Tampa I thought I’d take this opportunity to give you an update on how our campaign is coming along. (Hint: Please send more money! Lots more money!) Apparently we’re continuing to rely on Lady M to humanize Big Guy. 3 1/2 years in and we’re still trying to “humanize” Big Guy? Seriously? Is that really necessary at this point?  The human President TOTUS-head is “a head” in all of the polls...Anyway, sure enough no sooner do I start fretting about Lady M’s over-exposure than (then?) it happens...

To be honored as one of Glamour magazine’s “Women of the Year,” a woman must have made a huge impact, changed the world for good, broken boundaries, stereotypes, etc. Except when she doesn’t. Sometimes all she needs to do is complain to the ACLU that her high school is refusing to let her bring a lesbian date to prom.

Megyn Kelly, host of FNC’s “America Live,” will be featured in the November issue of Glamour. Kelly gives advice to women about how to make the most of their lives — balancing career and home — something she learned after switching careers and later ending her first marriage. “I spent most of life from 24-31 at the office. I wasn’t going to people’s weddings, I wasn’t cultivating my marriage. I wasn’t happy.” Kelly left a legal career for TV news, joining ABC affiliate WJLA in Washington, DC as a freelance general assignment reporter. She quickly caught the eye of FNC...