Presidential Election of 2016

November 16, 2016

Where Everybody Knows Your Name and Accepts Your Politics

The wall on the left side of Neary’s, a green-canopied Irish restaurant and bar on East 57th Street that will celebrate its 50th anniversary next year, […]
November 12, 2016

Unbuttoned: Is Fashion’s Love Affair With Washington Over?

Unbuttoned By VANESSA FRIEDMAN On Wednesday, when Hillary Clinton stood in the New Yorker Hotel for her farewell speech, she did so in one of her […]
November 12, 2016

Breaking Up With Twitter

Twitter, the well-known but less-well-used social network of 140-character quips about the news, is polarizing. You’re either an addict, or you don’t get it. And if […]
November 11, 2016

Social Q’s: Mending Fences (Even When You Really Don’t Want To)

Social Q’s By PHILIP GALANES My problem? You and idiots like you, full of straight white male privilege, who never understood the life-or-death stakes of sexism, […]
November 10, 2016

Riding an Election Night Roller Coaster at the Wing

At 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, the Wing was brimming with promise. Seated behind the club’s front desk in the Flatiron district was Audrey Gelman, 29, wearing […]
November 7, 2016

On the Runway: On Election Day, the Hillary Clinton White Suit Effect

Vanessa Friedman ON THE RUNWAY One of the more unexpected turns in a very twisted (in all senses of the word) electoral season has been the […]
November 5, 2016

The Closer: Michelle Obama

WASHINGTON — The emails to Michelle Obama began flooding in minutes after she spoke out at an October rally in New Hampshire, her voice shaking, about […]
November 2, 2016

For Election Night, the Champagne Loses Its Fizz

Way back before the primaries, when the coming presidential election seemed like just another quadrennial exercise of our nation’s democratic ideals and not a referendum on […]
October 26, 2016

The Uninvited Guest: The 2016 Campaign Crashes the Dinner Party

It’s hard to remember a time when the tense 2016 presidential campaign didn’t hog the airwaves and social media feeds. It has also sucked the oxygen […]
October 22, 2016

Debate-Watching With Hillary Clinton’s BFFs

CHICAGO — Donald J. Trump had just called Hillary Clinton a “nasty woman,” and Mrs. Clinton’s childhood girlfriends started laughing. “I’m so glad he said that,” […]