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With the explosion of smartphones has come an epidemic of selfie-taking. These mini self-portraits are now a currency we trade on Instagram, Snapchat, and Facebook. And they’re increasingly a way we see ourselves, and our flaws. But sometimes what we…
It is often mentioned that Hope Hicks, the departing White House communications director, used to model, a fact that seems of little relevance to her political life. But it does perhaps help to explain the photo of Hicks, taken by…
The lengthy span of Oscars campaigning—from the time that a movie secures its festival-première slot to the banqueting and junketing, from the slog of previous awards bestowed by critics’ groups and craft guilds to the media-chatter circuit (such as this…
The concept album is an extravagant obfuscation of what we imagine as the artist’s “self”—think of Pink Floyd’s comments on sanity in “The Dark Side of the Moon”; David Bowie adopting the costume of the alien androgyne Ziggy Stardust; George…
White House communications director Hope Hicks is leaving the White House. Hicks is likely to leave the White House in a few weeks, although her departure date isn’t yet known. Her resignation comes after some of the most tumultuous weeks…
Jared Kushner’s past 36 hours could make someone miss Manhattan’s cutthroat real estate market. Things aren’t going well for the investor and real estate businessman turned presidential adviser. (For that matter, it’s not looking great for his wife, Ivanka Trump,…
