A Democratic lawmaker is urging Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson to resign after he stumbled with basic housing questions before the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday, leading to questions about his suitability for the role. Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-Va.) issued her declaration on Thursday while accusing the nation’s highest-ranking housing official of not only […]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told Democrats on Wednesday night that she will put her weight behind a byzantine proposal aimed at lowering prescription drug prices ― a plan that progressive critics worry will ultimately have little to no effect. Pelosi’s office has been in private talks with the Trump administration about a prescription drug […]
Following a campaign with Gigi Hadid and a runway show honoring Britain’s punk and more refined sides, the Thomas Burberry monogram collection is now available to shop at Burberry. The sophisticated streetwear collection includes tees, hoodies, and hats for women and men. They all looked great on Gigi, and now it’s your turn. One standout […]
Dear Polly, My fiancé and I are thinking about our wedding guest list, and I’m anxious as to whether or not I should invite my aunt. My mother and all of her sisters went on a “sister’s trip,” and there was a huge argument between my aunt and my mom. During the fight, my aunt […]
The skin-care line Perricone MD first launched a No Makeup makeup collection in 2014, but I honestly cannot remember my initial experience with it, which probably means it wasn’t a great one. Seems like I wasn’t alone. Since then, the company went back to the lab and updated its formulas with new ingredients and new […]
Former Vogue staffer Yvonne Bannigan was sentenced to three years probation on Wednesday for stealing more than $50,000 while working as the assistant to Grace Coddington, the magazine’s creative-director-at-large, the New York Post reports. News of Bannigan’s arrest broke late last May; as if by serendipity, it was timed shortly after Jessica Pressler’s New York […]
I wouldn’t say I’m ever in a good place when I begin a Google search with the words “how to,” but “how to get a better jawline” has to be among my saddest repeat queries. It’s the kind of thing I Google not because I expect to find a genuinely helpful answer, but because I’m […]
A video of Pete Buttigieg recently went viral. The clip, circulated on Twitter, showed the young mayor seated at a piano, playing a song instantly recognizable to me and every Brooklyn dad in his late 30s who still wears sneakers a majority of the time. “Did you see this,” a friend said after sharing the […]
Adam Driver is many things: a former Marine, a Juilliard-trained actor, and a husband, to name just a few. But perhaps most important, he is a very, very big boy — and now, Driver is again letting his largeness shine. This time, on the cover of Vanity Fair. In an exquisite photograph taken by Annie […]
If you’re at all familiar with skateboarding or the New York City restaurant scene, the name Tyshawn “TJ” Jones might be familiar. In 2018, he was named Skater of the Year by Thrasher magazine; that same year, he opened a restaurant near his childhood home in the Bronx called Taste So Good (Make You Wanna […]