OZY Daily Dose

There is an allure to believing in the man behind the curtain, the figure lurking in the Oval Office and manipulating the president like a marionette. For Donald Trump, that man is Steve Bannon, the former chairman of right-wing Breitbart News who shaped Trump’s nationalist appeal on the campaign trail and is converting the rhetoric into public policy one aggressive executive order at a time.

Nothing reveals as much about a society, and its future, as its high schools. Yet amid accelerating change - widening inequality, unprecedented globalization and technological advances - they've woefully lagged behind. There are, of course, exceptions.Follow OZY's special series "High School, Disrupted" to find out about the global leaders, cutting-edge trends and big ideas reimagining secondary education - for the better.

President Trump is expected to reveal his selection to fill Anthonin Scalia's vacancy on the Supreme Court this week. Then the fun begins: Dirt excavation, senatorial speechifying, marches in the streets, presidential tweets. And the legal challenges surrounding Trump's recent executive order on immigration only heighten the stakes. But this circus is a mere warm-up act for Act II: the next confirmation fight.

EUGENE, SIR: My new wife is the greatest and I love her dearly. But since we entered into our relationship as man and wife, she has not been as affectionate and adventurous in the oral area as she was previous to marriage. I continue to find different and creative ways to make her orgasm orally, but I don’t get the same consideration. And if I even mention the backdoor, she scolds me and calls me a “perv.

Shaun White has given the snowboarding world countless epic moments on the snow, both on the slope and in the pipe, and still hasn't officially relinquished the title of world's best halfpipe snowboarder. Last season, he dominated in the halfpipe at the Burton U.S. Open. Next up: He plans to get busy in this season's X Games and the Olympics.In addition, White's moved into the business realm.

Once upon a time, I was a pastor. Or maybe, sometimes, an Old Catholic priest. Most of the time in a little town in Northern California.I preached in an aging church on Sundays and taught Bible Study on Tuesday mornings. I lived in a church-owned house a few blocks away.But I got tired of being poor.So I forged documents saying I owned the parsonage, and used the property to take out about $200,000 in personal loans.

In this occasional series, OZY takes to streets and neighborhoods across the globe to ask a simple question: “How was your day?” Tough and sad, as usual. I’m a transgender prostitute living in the worst place on Earth for people like me: Italy. Not only am I a sex worker (seen as bad enough on its own over here) but I’m trans, which translates into being a hybrid monster, a pariah to keep at bay.

Former West Virginia Senator Brooks McCabe sags into a black couch at Taylor's Bookstore and Café, his whispy gray curls as faded as the brick facade behind him - and the wall in front of him just happens to show the topic of conversation: a topographic map of the Mountain State. Here, in downtown Charleston, the 67-year-old Republican is laying out an economic vision that some find game-changing, others illusionary and, as some critics suggest, is downright un-West Virginian.

Still avoiding alcohol, ciggies and that guy you swore you would never date again? New Year's resolutions have their time and place, but, let's face it, they peter out right around now. Luckily, science offers a more measured, long-term approach to get us to a ripe old age.

I am staring at the Ferris wheel in the distance when I feel a tap on my shoulder. A group of local youths want a photo with me. Wandering Jakarta as a white foreigner makes you a C-list celebrity, so this is neither the first nor the last time I will be so approached. But it is the most apropos. "We had to ask because of the sign," one girl says, a tad sheepishly.