It is “arguably the most powerful negative word in the American English language,” the author Inga Muscio writes. Her book happens to be sitting on my desk, but I’ve been told we cannot print its title. This week, the woman who was called the c-word happened to be Ivanka Trump. Samantha Bee, the late-night talk show host and satirist, displayed a photo Ms. Trump had posted on social media in which she is nuzzling her son. Contrasting that motherly image with the news of the moment, the Trump administration’s immigration policy of separating children from parents, Ms. Bee called Ms. Trump a “feckless” version of that word.

Source: New York Times June 02, 2018 20:37 UTC