Page 196 - Robin Wright News Today

Fran Bartolotta

August in the Americas: A round up produced by IFEX's Regional Editor Laura Vidal, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.

The U.S. gender pay gap extends to every occupation, but it's especially noticeable in Hollywood. Here are 8 of the biggest Hollywood gender pay gaps.

Forget the Birkin bag, the ultimate midlife status symbol every woman wants is a pair of beautifully bulging biceps

The transgender Mexican artist lost their sight to an HIV-related illness – and their art blossomed. As a major exhibition opens in Dundee, they explain their defiance of illness and gender norms

The stabbing of Salman Rushdie raises the question: Why did Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini sentence Salman Rushdie to death in 1989 for his novel The Satanic Verses? That the Iranian dictator had not read the book made this action, one that dispensed with

As CNN's Howard Kurtz accurately pointed out on Sunday's "Reliable Sources," few media outlets seemed at all interested in giving much attention to the great news out of Iraq last week regarding September's sharp decline in casualties. To Kurtz's obvious frustration, his guests - Robin Wright of the Washington Post and Barbara Starr of CNN - both supported the press burying this extremely positive announcement. I kid you not.*****Update: Wright responds to reader ...

The death edict was neither about rivalries nor geopolitics.

Subscribers will have access to a curated selection of current and legacy CNN programming.

It seems to me the right wingers have taken playbook pages from a radical Islamist jihad. Salman Rushdie was attacked for writing about the Prophet Mohammed in ways that created offense. The New Yorker magazine...