Presidential Election of 2016

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,” […]
October 21, 2016

Night Out: Chelsea Handler Relaxes in an Unlikely Place: Trump Tower

Night Out By KATIE ROGERS It was cocktail hour on a recent afternoon, and the comedian Chelsea Handler, her brother Glen, and a publicist sat at […]
October 20, 2016

Social Q’s: Workplace Politics (the Trump-Clinton Kind)

Social Q’s By PHILIP GALANES I own a small bakery that’s taking off. (We make a crazy good coconut cake!) I put a sign in the […]
October 17, 2016

The New Protesters Defying Donald Trump: His Customers

Morrie Gold is not a placard-waving political protester. He is a 69-year-old retired doctor in Pennsylvania. But he recently participated in a quiet act of rebellion: […]
October 15, 2016

A Onetime BuzzFeed Wunderkind, Now at CNN

Andrew Kaczynski, the 26-year-old reporter who dug up evidence showing that Donald J. Trump had supported the invasion of Iraq before the war, was Google-chatting with […]
October 11, 2016

A Partisan Crowd Watches the Debate at the New Trump Hotel

WASHINGTON — Outside, a ribbon of lights swept up Pennsylvania Avenue toward the Capitol, and there was not a protester in sight. Inside the month-old Trump […]
October 10, 2016

Unbuttoned: Is Ralph Lauren Going to Be Hillary Clinton’s Dresser in Chief?

Unbuttoned By VANESSA FRIEDMAN Has Hillary Clinton found her dresser in chief? It would appear that way. While the Twitterverse was busy parsing the possible subtexts […]
October 1, 2016

The Other Trump

Like place cards at a society wedding or the lineup at a Soviet May Day parade, the seating at a campaign event is a GPS map […]
October 1, 2016

Campaign Fashion: The Mystery of Trump’s Suits, Solved

The press took note when Hillary Clinton wore pantsuits from the American label Ralph Lauren at the Democratic National Convention and at the first presidential debate. […]
September 27, 2016

During the Presidential Debate, a Fashionable Pajama Party in Paris

PARIS — At 3 a.m. on Tuesday, the streets near the Champs-Élysées were eerily silent, the stillness punctuated only by the rolling shutters of brasseries being […]