A CK One ad. The ’90s were punctuated with a lot of weird aesthetics. There was a lumberjack-man-meets-pajama look. Grunge . It was cool to look pale and sickly. Heroin chic . Pants were unironically massive and equipped with 30 pockets. Cargo pants . And everyone smelled like CK One, the Calvin…

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is considering requiring visitors to turn over their social-media passwords and browsing histories. Mike Blake / Reuters “What sites do you visit? And give us your passwords.” That’s what U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly wants foreign visitors to…

Former national security adviser Michael Flynn denied to FBI agents in an interview last month that he had discussed U.S. sanctions against Russia with that country’s ambassador to the United States before President Trump took office, contradicting the contents of intercepted communications…

Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images On Thursday, President Trump announced his new pick for Labor Secretary at an early afternoon press conference. He then spent 76 minutes ranting about the media’s dishonesty; touting his historically successful first month in office (and ever-increasing popularity);…

Mark Zuckerberg has been doing a lot of thinking. Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images This story is part of a group of stories called Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. It was pretty clear once I got on the phone last night with Mark Zuckerberg that he has…

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Michael T. Flynn, left, the national security adviser, before boarding Air Force One on Friday. He accompanied President Trump and Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, on a visit to Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s club in Palm Beach, Fla. Credit... Al Drago/The New York Times Over the weekend, The Times…

When Diplo, the multi-faceted DJ and ex-boyfriend of Katy Perry, slithered onto my timeline on Sunday with a stank remark fetishizing Iranian women affected by Donald Trump’s so-called Muslim ban, I was forced to react. Now, do I believe all the white people who are protesting the Muslim ban are…

Conflict and controversy seem to follow Omarosa Manigault , who stirred up plenty of both as a reality-TV star and a longtime associate of President Trump. Manigault, who is now a communications official in the Trump administration, got into a heated argument with a White House reporter just steps…

Story highlights Trump has dinner guests at least four nights a week His workaholic tendencies have him hosting a rotating supper club Washington (CNN) Less than a week before President Donald Trump's meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he settled down to dinner to discuss the…

Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Donald Trump, said the White House press secretary gave “alternative facts” when he inaccurately described the inauguration crowd as “the largest ever” during his first appearance before the press this weekend. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer gathered…

It began last year, when, in an interview with then-candidate Donald Trump, CNN’s Jake Tapper asked a tireless 23 follow-up questions about Trump’s allegation that a Mexican-American judge couldn’t possibly rule fairly on his Trump University case, in light of Trump’s calls for a Mexican border wall…

Monday’s incident was just the latest TV-generated controversy that Kellyanne Conway has found herself in. | AP Photo Kellyanne Conway has an on-air credibility crisis. On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Tuesday, co-anchor Mika Brzezinski declared that she “will not interview her.” “It’s giving people…

Nielsen reports that daytime TV viewership has jumped when Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, is carried live by the major cable news networks. Credit... Stephen Crowley/The New York Times He is no match for “The Young and the Restless.” But he is beating “The Bold and the Beautiful.”…

Strange, isn’t it, that it was a lie that supposedly caused Michael Flynn to be fired? His false assurances to Vice President Pence about pre-election conversations with Russia were what evidently did him in as national security adviser. If lies were always taken that seriously in the Trump…

Critic's Notebook Q-Tip with members of A Tribe Called Quest and others during the 59th Grammys. Before the rapper Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest shouted “Resist! Resist! Resist!” at the top of his lungs at the Grammy Awards ; before Busta Rhymes called Donald J. Trump “President Agent Orange” and…

#sendtheinterns is a hashtag that stands for some advice I have given the Washington press corps about its dealings with the Trump White House. After this weekend’s spectacular display by new Press Secretary Sean Spicer — mixing provable falsehoods with culture war attacks on the journalists…

This story is part of a group of stories called Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. Ben Thompson has established himself as one of the smartest analysts and clearest thinkers on the media and technology industries. And he has built an interesting, rather…

The Public Editor A New York Times feature writer, Jacob Bernstein, has come forward as the reporter who made derogatory comments about Melania Trump at a Fashion Week event on Sunday, apologizing in a four-part tweet. A guest at the event, the model Emily Ratajkowski, says Bernstein referred to the…

Katy Perry, performing her new song “Chained to the Rhythm” with Skip Marley at the Grammys. For most of the 59th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday night, political statements were merely implied or hinted at. Then came A Tribe Called Quest. While Hollywood award shows this Oscar season have been…

Illustration: Thomas Hunter Illustration: Thomas Hunter In the melee of coverage before and after the election, no glossy magazine publisher has been more publicly invested in swinging hard against Donald Trump than Condé Nast. And it’s not just within the usual highbrow political pages of the New…

BOB GARFIELD: This is On the Media. I'm Bob Garfield. BROOKE GLADSTONE: And I'm Brooke Gladstone. Writing on his blog, PressThink.org, New York University Journalism Professor Jay Rosen noted that after last weekend's spectacular display by Press Secretary Sean Spicer, the case for sending interns…

Over the past year, Facebook rolled out several new mobile ad formats, including full-screen, 360-degree video, and interactive ads that let users swipe, tilt, and zoom through carousels of images. And to help advertisers experiment with and make sense of these products, in November Facebook debuted…

The White House is already tracking which Democrats could challenge President Trump in 2020 and Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand aren’t on the list, sources told The Post. Trump’s chief strategist, Steve Bannon, asked consultants to scour the backgrounds of four outspoken Democrats —…

ADVERTISEMENT Adele had a huge night at the 2017 Grammys, scoring awards for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album, and more, winning every award she was nominated for on Sunday night. The British singer also took home the most coveted honor, winning the Album of the Year award…

Two years ago, when Beyoncé lost to Beck for album of the year at the Grammy Awards, Kanye West was not happy, and declared that Beck should “respect artistry” and give his award away to Queen Bey. On Sunday night, Grammy history repeated itself — Beyoncé didn’t win album of the year. Again. Except…

Each year on Grammy night, the Recording Academy plunges itself a few leagues deeper into a dim trench of irrelevance, making it difficult to get too worked-up over its chronic fumbles. But this year was different. When industry voters chose Adele’s conventional bestseller, “25,” over Beyoncé’s…

Was President Trump's declaration that the media is deliberately not covering terror attacks in Europe another example of his off-the-cuff, fact-free pronouncements? Or more evidence that he and his team understand how to exploit the press? Maybe it's both. The White House has been losing the public…

Dont’a Hightower held the Vince Lombardi Trophy after the Patriots defeated the Falcons in Super Bowl LI on Sunday. At least six members of the Super Bowl-winning New England Patriots have said they will not visit the White House for the traditional meeting that championship teams have with the…

President Xi Jinping of China in Lima, Peru, last year. The fact that President Trump and Mr. Xi had not talked since Mr. Trump took office in January had drawn increasing scrutiny. WASHINGTON — President Trump told President Xi Jinping of China on Thursday evening that the United States would honor…

Gail Collins Elizabeth Warren Persists A protest outside Senator Mitch McConnell’s home in Washington on Wednesday night. It’s a dark and dismal time for American liberals. Except for the part where the opposition keeps shooting itself in the foot. We will now pause to contemplate the fact that this…

On Pro Basketball Charles Oakley at his boyhood home in Cleveland. His relationship with the Knicks has deteriorated since his 10 seasons playing for the team. Credit... Andrew Spear for The New York Times Charles Oakley has strong feelings about comped tickets. They are not freebies, he said in a…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranians on Friday marked the anniversary of the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution with nationwide celebrations and mass rallies that saw people step on large U.S. flags laid out on the streets while President Hassan Rouhani called the new American administration “a problem.”…

BFFs? Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images “We’re just finishing,” Steve Bannon told me. “Reince is giving me my daily back massage.” The two men burst into a fit of conspiratorial laughter. “Off the record!” Reince Priebus said. “Off the record!” Bannon repeated. They continued to laugh. It was…

From the Tuesday Morning Jolt… One of the lead items on the local Washington D.C. television news last nigh t was District of Columbia officials raising heck over the White House web site featuring outdated statistics for the local homicide rate. Here’s PolitiFact , declaring Donald Trump and the…

Welcome to the fifth installment of Fact Checker’s series highlighting what President Trump got wrong on Twitter in a given week. Here’s a look at what Trump got wrong in 11 tweets this week, listed in chronological order. Countries charge U.S. companies taxes or tariffs while the U.S. charges them…

Look past CNN’s posse of pundits for a moment, and its Real News™ branding carries weight. Nevertheless, the font of centrist journalism has become a favorite punching bag for the Trump administration and its right-wing media machine, a universal stand-in for the “crooked media.” And an onslaught…

At the Four Seasons, first daughter Ivanka Trump took a meeting with Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi at the power breakfast rush hour. | AP Photo House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was having breakfast at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington last Friday with a friend. Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman sat at a…

Rueters CNN, put on ice by the Trump administration, is looking to alternate sources for its infotainment, and so will host Tuesday evening a town-hall debate between Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz on the future of the Affordable Care Act. I’m not sure what bearing this has on anything, but it might be…