Not a new one, but something still worth reading. Try and imagine someone who "has been published in Time, The Nation, Foreign Affairs among others" writing in such terms about the wife of *any* western leader, however bent, murderous or despised: it would be considered *career-endingly outrageous*...

https://www.newarab.com/opinion/heres-why-i-cant-sympathise-asma-al-assads-cancer-stunts

M.