Daniel J. Solomon is the former Assistant to the Editor/News Writer at the Forward. Originally from Queens, he attended Harvard as an undergraduate, where he wrote his senior thesis on French-Jewish intellectual history. He is excited to have returned to New York after his time in Massachusetts. Daniel’s passions include folk music, cycling, and pointed argument.
Daniel J. Solomon
By Daniel J. Solomon
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Fast Forward Did Gorka Lie About British Military Service?
White House aide Sebastian Gorka has been linked to a neo-Nazi group in his native Hungary. Now it seems like he might have lied about his military service in the United Kingdom, where he was raised. According to BuzzFeed News, the British Ministry of Defense has no evidence that Gorka worked in the 1990’s on…
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Fast Forward Ivanka Will Be Reading Dad’s Executive Orders Before They’re Signed
Ivanka Trump will be reviewing some of President Trump’s executive orders before they are signed, an unprecedented level of influence for the first daughter who was recently installed as a White House special assistant. “I’m still at the early stages of learning how everything works,” she told The New York Times for a Tuesday profile,…
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Fast Forward Mark Cuban Sends Twitter Stock Aflutter With Investment
Mark Cuban, the outspoken billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks, helped power Twitter to large gains in stock price Tuesday, after an announcement that he would be purchasing a hefty number of shares in the social media company. When the stock market closed Tuesday, the price of Twitter stock had gone up 4% to $18.24,…
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Fast Forward At Ivanka’s Company, There Were Women Who Worked … Without Maternity Leave
Ivanka Trump has created a lifestyle brand — and now a book — premised on women’s empowerment. But her company did not have a maternity leave policy until her female workers pushed her to adopt one. When Trump’s “Women Who Work” initiative launched in 2013, “They [had] no maternity policy in place, they [didn’t] have…
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Fast Forward Trump Says Bannon’s Staying Put As White House Strategist
President Trump has decided to pull Steve Bannon out from under the bus, signaling in a Tuesday interview that he will be keeping on his chief strategist, who seemed for the past month to be on the ropes. “Bannon is a very decent guy who feels very strongly about the country. Likewise, Jared. And they’re…
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Fast Forward Ivanka Cried When Trump Wouldn’t Apologize For ‘Pussy-Grabbing’ Comments
Ivanka Trump demanded to no avail that her father issue a full apology for the infamous tape in which he was recorded bragging about sexual assault. After the release of tape in which he boasted that he could grab women’s genitalia, now-President Trump called in Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner for crisis management. According…
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Fast Forward JLo Once Dissed Ivanka Trump’s Modeling Career
Jennifer Lopez once threw cold water on Ivanka Trump’s nascent modeling career, griping that Trump was “only here because of her dad.” The pop star reportedly made the remark at a movie premiere they both attended when Trump was a teenager and J.Lo was at the height of her late-‘90’s pop-star fame. The comment was…
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Fast Forward Ivanka Trump Has Weekly Meeting With Treasury Sec. Steve Mnuchin
Ivanka Trump is extending her influence as a White House special assistant into new areas, apparently meeting every week with Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to discuss economic issues. According to a recent report in The New York Times, Trump has been hitting up Mnuchin, U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley and other administration officials to learn more…
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