reading the signs
Aug. 5, 2021
Losing My Religion Julia Haart exchanged the teachings of the Torah for the gospel of money, pleasure, and sex.
reading the signs
Jan. 20, 2021
Good-bye to Trump’s Patriotic Cosplay He gave Americans of all stripes a chance to witness and play at masquerade. What will his supporters do with that impulse now?
reading the signs
Nov. 25, 2020
Trump Has Lost the Will to Be Blond The president’s hair has always been a clue to his mental state.
reading the signs
Nov. 2, 2020
AOC Dares Us to Look Her in the Face On the cover of Vanity Fair , the congresswoman embraces the power of her own beauty.
the encyclopedia of new york
Oct. 20, 2020
It Came From New York Disco. The freak show. Neoconservatism. Q-tips. They all started in the world’s most creative, inventive city.
reading the signs
July 18, 2020
Ivanka, Dressed in White, Is Always Selling Privilege Another unsettling image for the Trump-women’s yearbook.
reading the signs
May 12, 2020
Losing Face Trump’s refusal to cover up actually reveals his greatest fears.
reading the signs
Mar. 6, 2020
The Battle Cry of the ‘Schoolmarm’ I thought I was a scholar, but apparently I’m just a scold.
reading the signs
Feb. 7, 2020
Meghan Markle and the Myth of Happily Ever After There’s a reason fairy tales always end at the wedding.
reading the signs
Nov. 27, 2019
Ivanka’s Wall of Silence Where is the pastel-clad cipher of the Trump administration right now?
reading the signs
Aug. 27, 2019
Dancing With Reality Why Sean Spicer’s appearance on Dancing With the Stars is the best allegory for our dystopia.
reading the signs
Aug. 10, 2019
Surrogate Angels of Death What to make of the First Lady holding the motherless child and youngest survivor of the El Paso massacre.
reading the signs
July 18, 2019
Men’s Stock Rises When They Trade in Young Women Jeffrey Epstein was hardly alone in treating them like consumable pleasures.
reading the signs
July 3, 2019
Le Streak, C’est Chic The high-contrast drama of Tulsi Gabbard’s signature hairstyle.
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May 20, 2019
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Apr. 17, 2019
Watching Her Burn Notre-Dame made it impossible to forget the femaleness of any cathedral.
marriage: an investigation
Apr. 4, 2019
What the Melania Body-double Conspiracy Says About the Trumps’ Marriage It reinforces the notion that Melania is more a category of person than an irreplaceable individual.
remembering karl
Feb. 19, 2019
Lagerfeld Spoke Fluent Chanel — With His Own Accent He imagined himself as a reincarnated Chanel, sent by her from the beyond.
reading the signs
Feb. 17, 2019
Lee Radziwill and the Cinderella Trap Glamorous in life and even after death, the princess was forever compared to her sister.
reading the signs
Feb. 6, 2019
Last Night, D.C. Got a New Power Uniform Finally, a visual shorthand for women in politics.
She Was Never Famous, But Her Photos Are Groundbreaking A 95-year-old photographer whose work is so fresh, it’s like it was shot yesterday.
reading the signs
Dec. 27, 2018
Trump, Santa, and the Power of Collective Delusions The effort it takes to maintain a myth can become exhausting.
reading the signs
Dec. 13, 2018
Melania Trump’s Blonde Bombshell As ever, the First Lady says one thing and performs its opposite.
reading the signs
Nov. 28, 2018
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Nov. 8, 2018
How Donald Trump Uses the Female Body As a Weapon The White House co-opts the language of #MeToo to punish a CNN reporter.
reading the signs
Oct. 31, 2018
Trump’s No-Good, Very Bad Hair Day Far from vague ramblings, Trump’s “bad hair day” remarks represented yet another stage in our accelerating slide toward fascism.
reading the signs
Oct. 7, 2018
Melania Keeps Her Game Face Hunting for some sign of life as the First Lady travels to Africa.
reading the signs
Oct. 1, 2018
The Fraternity of the Twilight Zone The GOP’s response to allegations against Kavanaugh illuminates the very deep rift between men and women.
reading the signs
Sept. 17, 2018
Brett Kavanaugh Will Pretend You Don’t Exist What his alleged attack on a young woman tells us about how he uses power.
screen idols
Sept. 8, 2018
The Unstoppable Sex Appeal of ’70s Burt Reynolds For women of that era, he represented a new kind of freedom.
reading the signs
Aug. 21, 2018
reading the signs
July 11, 2018
The Thai Cave Rescue Cannot Save Us From National Shame As the world celebrates the soccer team’s freedom, countless other children are still trapped by the U.S. government.
reading the signs
June 22, 2018
The Jacket Heard Round the World Once again Melania Trump channels the American unconscious.
reading the signs
June 11, 2018
reading the signs
June 1, 2018
The Real Meaning of Carrie Bradshaw’s Tutu Dancing around the transactional nature of love on SATC .
It’s Okay to Be Offended by Michelle Wolf’s Jokes Her remarks felt deeply personal. That was the point.
Stormy Daniels’s Boring Interview Was Actually Brilliant Once again, she proves she’s a worthy adversary for Trump.
close readings
Feb. 14, 2018
Michelle Obama’s Mount Rushmore Moment Looking deeply at the new portraits of the former First Couple.
The True Face of the Trump Administration Colbie Holderness’s black eye confronts us with the underside of this White House.
Meet Rhonda Garelick, the Cut’s Critic of Fashion, Aesthetics, and Politics “Criticism gives validation and gravitas to a realm that sometimes gets dismissed as trivial.”
Stormy Daniels Is to Trump As Trump Is to America The distinction between porn-star news and presidential politics is blurrier than we think.
red carpet derby
Jan. 8, 2018
The Red-Carpet Funeral that Wasn’t The women of Hollywood were never going to deny us the pleasure of their beauty.
american beauty
Jan. 3, 2018
the apprentice
Dec. 20, 2017
Omarosa, White House Oracle Without intending to, she revealed the truth about Trump.
american horror
Dec. 5, 2017
Charles Manson’s Enduring Influence on Fashion How the notorious murderer and his followers weaponized style.
shaken not stirred
Nov. 9, 2017
Why Hope Hicks Wore a Tuxedo in Japan How the Trump women used their bodies as decoys in Japan.
For Donald Trump, Every Day Is Halloween Why the president couldn’t play along with kids in costumes.
the harvey weinstein case
Oct. 23, 2017
All Consuming Women The same industries that exploit us turn around and sell our exploitation back to us.
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