Venezuela is famous for its success with beauty pageants. It has the highest number of Miss World, with six titles. It also has the second-highest number of Miss Universe titles, tailing behind the United...

The morning after last week’s presidential debate, one of my professors spent class stressing the importance of voting. She then told us about her mother, who is turning 102 this year. When her mother...

Beauty pageants are flawed. Women parade around in bathing suits and evening gowns, and then, if they get far enough in the competition, enter the final round where they answer a question. Depending on...

It's become a comfortable and ubiquitous cliché: what pageant queens lack in substance, they make up for in looks. When the generalization finds itself tired and overworked, there is oftentimes a scandal...