Photo via Pexels God, it’s been said , makes a lousy playwright . As far as an upcoming film that spotlights the Pentagon Papers is concerned, though, The New York Times is seething not at the Almighty but at the producers. In March it was announced that Steven Spielberg would direct The Post, which…

Charlie Rose last year. On Monday, CBS suspended him and PBS announced that it would no longer distribute his interview show. Credit... Richard Shotwell/Invision, via Associated Press After allegations surfaced Monday that the longtime television host Charlie Rose made crude sexual advances toward…

Supporters of the program that gives people from some countries temporary protection from deportation rallied in Los Angeles last week. Credit... Emily Berl for The New York Times The Trump administration is ending a humanitarian program that has allowed some 59,000 Haitians to live and work in the…

Mark Wilson/Getty Images The allegation that Sen. Al Franken kissed and groped a woman with whom he was performing a comedy skit is serious, and should be taken seriously. It has also kicked off an energetic round of but-your-side-does-it-too on Twitter, where conservatives exhausted by the Roy…

WELCOME TO CONDÉ NAST: Radhika Jones is learning the ways of One World Trade. Having been named the new editor in chief of Vanity Fair only this week , Jones, 44, headed to downtown Manhattan to get acquainted with the magazine’s staff. But while Jones may have been editorial director of the books…

Marla Aufmuth via Getty Images Listen to the former first lady. If you’re like most humans, the current political climate has caused you some excess anxiety or tension. Recent research shows that the majority of Americans are stressed about the future of the nation and even relationships with loved…

Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images TRENTON—Chris Christie had some thoughts on how I should write this article. “You should break out of leading with ‘the most unpopular governor in galactic history’ and all this other shit that everybody hits F2, F3, F4 [on and] bang, bang, bang, the…

Op-Ed Contributor Jay-Z: The Criminal Justice System Stalks Black People Like Meek Mill A Philadelphia judge sentenced the rapper Meek Mill to two to four years in prison for violating probation. Credit... Matt Rourke/Associated Press This month Meek Mill was sentenced to two to four years in prison…

Encounters The rapper made a homecoming to the borough where he was raised, visiting the spots where he and his friends would shop and try to talk to girls. French Montana returned to Sammy’s Fashion, a street wear emporium in the Bronx where he and his friends used to shop for Timberland boots and…

White House Memo By criticizing Senator Al Franken for inappropriate behavior, President Trump has reignited the debate around his own alleged misconduct. Credit... Tom Brenner/The New York Times WASHINGTON — Last fall, Donald J. Trump inadvertently touched off a national conversation about sexual…

Unbuttoned Paul Manafort, center, leaving Federal District Court in Washington on Monday. The detail in the indictment that the former Trump campaign manager had spent $1.3 million on two shopping sprees has gained lots of attention. Credit... Alex Brandon/Associated Press Of all the damning details…

Sade in the mirror, 1983. Skip to contentSkip to site index The singer doesn’t have to say a thing to loom over the culture. Sade in the mirror, 1983. Not long ago, a tattoo shop in Brooklyn got a bad review on Yelp. A customer was angry — not about his new ink, but about the soundtrack that…

transcript 0:00/2:53 -2:53 transcript Paul Manafort’s Trail of Scandals President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, has now been accused by the special counsel of violating his plea deal by repeatedly lying to federal prosecutors. But this wasn’t Mr. Manafort’s first scandal. Paul…

Mr. Papadopoulos, formerly a Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, pleaded guilty to lying to the F.B.I. about meetings he had with a professor who had close ties to the Russian government. 阅读简体中文版 閱讀繁體中文版 WASHINGTON — A professor with close ties to the Russian government told an adviser to Donald…

Love, sex, singledom, partnership, boys, girls: Why is this all so hard to negotiate, for even the cleverest and most confident of women? And what does emotional happiness look like anyway? Vogue ’s new series Sad Hot Girls investigates the mystifying, oft-seeming impossible world of intimacy and…

On Friday, while prosecutors working for the special counsel, Robert Mueller, obtained their first grand-jury indictments in their investigation of potential collusion by the Trump campaign and Russia, the President of the United States was busy gaslighting. Trump tweeted, of course, that “It is now…

The guerilla philanthropist How Shea Serrano went from middle school teacher to the uncensored general of Twitter’s happiest army by Brian De Los Santos A growing horde of at least 100 jersey-toting urbanites wrapped around a New York City block outside the Strand Bookstore as passersby rubbernecked…

President Trump, in a personal phone call to a grieving military father, offered him $25,000 and said he would direct his staff to establish an online fundraiser for the family, but neither happened, the father said. Chris Baldridge, the father of Army Sgt. Dillon Baldridge, said that Trump called…

Since his inauguration in January, President Donald Trump’s sideshows have dominated the news coverage of his presidency. | Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images President Donald Trump was expected to spend the fall pushing his ambitious tax reform agenda and helping devastated regions in Texas,…

I was in the Grand Central Station Apple Store for the third time in a year, watching a progress bar slowly creep across my computer's black screen as my Genius multi-tasked helping another customer with her iPad. My computer was getting its third diagnostic test in 45 minutes. The problem was not…

What is your morning routine? I typically wake up at 6:30am, apply my TULA Multi-Spectrum Eye Renewal Serum, then have breakfast with my kids before showering. After that, I either head to the television studio or to my office for work. How long have you stuck with this routine so far? I’ve kept up…

Ad Industry Insiders Profited From An Ad Fraud Scheme That Researchers Say Stole Millions Of Dollars A BuzzFeed News investigation reveals how seemingly credible players in the ad supply chain can play an active role in — and profit from — fraud. Some of the world’s biggest brands were ripped off by…

Everybody says they want bipartisan solutions to complex problems, but what happens when a bipartisan solution actually shows up? In Donald Trump’s Washington, the answer is that whether it actually comes to fruition depends on the shifting whims of a president who doesn’t understand the issue and…

Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Both as a candidate for president and again as recently as mid-September, Donald Trump promised that his tax program wouldn’t help rich people “at all.” His Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin vowed as much in January . These pledges have always been at odds with…

During an exchange with reporters outside the White House in October, President Donald Trump called NBC News "fake news" after the agency reported tension between Trump and Secretary of State Rex Rex Tillerson. | Alex Edelman/AFP/Getty Images But voters diverge from the president on whether the…

“Magical.” Kerry Washington’s eyes are closed and she breathes evenly as I quietly panic. We are at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles; the Scandal star wanted to check out the Gamelatron Sanctuary, which involves a lot of hypnotic chimes and gongs. While she is peacing out, I notice looming nearby an…

Photographs Courtesy of NBC News/Frank Thorp V T he most dangerous place to be a journalist in America is at a protest. That’s a key early takeaway from the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, a nonpartisan website launched in August that documents press freedom incidents around the country. As of…

Op-Ed Contributor Lupita Nyong’o: Speaking Out About Harvey Weinstein Lupita Nyong’o in 2015. Credit... Jesse Dittmar for The New York Times I have been following the news and reading the accounts of women coming forward to talk about being assaulted by Harvey Weinstein and others. I had shelved my…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he wanted what amounted to a nearly tenfold increase in the U.S. nuclear arsenal during a gathering this past summer of the nation’s highest-ranking national security leaders, according to three officials who were in the room. Trump’s comments, the officials…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's suggestion that the U.S. drastically increase its nuclear arsenal follows a presidential campaign in which he made a number of contradictory statements about weapons of mass destruction. As a candidate, he called nuclear proliferation the “single biggest threat”…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NFL team owners will consider requiring football players to stand for the U.S. national anthem after President Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested using tax laws to penalize the league for players who kneel in protest of racial injustice. Trump, a Republican, escalated his feud…

Donald Trump turned his Twitter ire on NBC and the NFL this past week. But beyond just criticizing them, Trump is threatening to punish the network and the league with the government’s regulatory might. Trump tweeted on Wednesday that NBC’s broadcasting license “must be challenged” and potentially…

Supporters for and against a Confederate memorial monument face off on August 26, 2017 in Knoxville, Tennessee. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Joseph Bernstein’s deep investigation of the inner workings of the alt-right, published October 5, was a groundbreaking look at how former Breitbart…

Joe Holder looks familiar, doesn’t he? Probably from running along the Seine with Derek Blasberg during Paris Fashion Week , or his recurring cameo in Phillip Picardi ’s stories of indulgence in Shake Shack and office candy, which Holder, expectedly, makes him burn off at the gym—all of which is…

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Lohan’s support of Weinstein against allegations of sexual harassment and assault is of a piece with a tactic often used to excuse predators and cast doubt on survivors. Photograph by Eric Charbonneau / WireImage via Getty In the days since the explosive allegations of sexual harassment and assault…

— -- Two people said they are upset after discovering a hidden camera pointed at the bed in a room they rented from the popular site Airbnb. "My wife and I are distressed by this situation. I hope more victims will come forward," Derek Starnes told ABC News affiliate WFTS-TV of Tampa, Florida, after…

Reince Priebus, the former chief of staff to President Trump, was interviewed for a full day Friday by members of special counsel Robert S. Mueller's team, Priebus's lawyer said. In a statement, William Burck said his client was interviewed voluntarily. "He was happy to answer all of their…

Former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus had been preparing for several weeks, according to people who spoke with him. | Alex Brandon/AP 'He was happy to answer all of their questions,' the former White House chief of staff's lawyer said. Former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus was…

The President’s feud with Senator Bob Corker has spurred fellow-Republicans to register varying degrees of disgust, dismay, fury, and disappointment about the state of affairs in the White House. Photograph by Drew Angerer / Getty Shortly after noon on Tuesday, after a morning in which President…