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A federal appeals court upheld the criminal conviction of Steve Bannon for defying a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack.

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One evening in March 2018, I joined some friends at a bar in Washington, D.C., to watch a live broadcast of Anderson Cooper’s interview with the adult-film actor Stormy Daniels on 60 Minutes. For months, we’d all been reading news stories about Daniels’s reported sexual encounter with then-President Donald Trump, along with Trump’s efforts to pay her off in order to cover it up before the 2016 election—and now, finally, we were going to hear from the woman herself. The story itself seemed funny, an absurd dispatch from a faraway, brightly colored world of celebrity gossip.But once the broadcast started, the story that Daniels told was not funny at all. It sounded, in fact, a great deal like the accounts of many of the women who had been recently sharing their experiences of sexual coercion as part of the #MeToo movement, which had exploded just a few months before, following The New York Times’ reporting on the abuses of the film producer Harvey Weinstein. Daniels hadn’t wanted to sleep with Trump, she told Cooper, but felt that “I had it coming for making a bad decision, for going to someone’s room alone.” Still, she insisted that she was “not a victim.” The atmosphere in the bar remained cheerful, but my “Dark and Stormy Daniels” cocktail no longer seemed quite so amusing an order. I left feeling unsettled.I remembered that evening this week while following Daniels’s testimony at Trump’s New York trial, where he faces charges over his alleged effort to cover up the hush-money payment made to Daniels in 2016. News coverage of the trial has featured plenty of jokes about the seedy schemes by Trump’s team to quash unflattering stories. And Daniels has seemed happy at times to play her part in the circus, leaning into the character of a brassy Trump-hater. What she described on the stand, though, wasn’t exactly “tawdry” or “salacious,” as some news coverage has suggested. It was something sadder, uglier, and—for many people who have lived in some way in the shadow of sexual violence—more familiar.Initially, whether the district attorney’s office would call Daniels to testify was unclear. Although she is at the center of the case, she’s also removed from it. Her story is what prosecutors say Trump wanted to silence before the election, but the charges themselves focus on documents allegedly fudged by the Trump Organization after the fact.This week, though, prosecutors made the call to put Daniels on the stand. She described her experience with Trump in greater detail than she had on 60 Minutes, saying she’d reluctantly agreed to a dinner with Trump and, when she arrived at the hotel, was told to come up to his room—an echo of Weinstein’s tactics. After a long conversation about business—he was interested in the economics of the porn industry, she said, and suggested that she might appear on The Apprentice—she went to the restroom, and emerged to find him stripped down to a T-shirt and boxers. She was shocked: “I felt the room spin in slow motion,” she testified, and remembered thinking, “Oh my God, what did I misread to get here?” She went to leave, and he stood between her and the door. When she went to put on her clothes afterward, she said, her hands were shaking too hard to buckle up her shoes.[David A. Graham: The Stormy Daniels testimony spotlights Trump’s misogyny]As she had on 60 Minutes, Daniels emphasized in the courtroom that she viewed the sex as consensual. She also said that she was conscious of the difference in power between herself and Trump: Though she insisted that she hadn’t felt threatened, he was larger than her and standing between her and the bedroom door; his bodyguard was outside; he had dangled the possibility of a role on The Apprentice. Daniels’s insistence that she is not a victim locates the interaction in a queasy, blurred space of complicated sexual interaction that has become more culturally familiar in the years since #MeToo.What was striking about Daniels’s story was how normal it seemed. Setting aside the identities of the people involved and the hubbub about hush money, elements were reminiscent of an uncertain disclosure that you might hear from a friend over brunch: Something weird happened last night … In a conversation with my colleagues at Lawfare, Claire Meynial, who has been covering the trial for the French magazine Le Point, described watching the focused, serious faces of the women in the press room as Daniels testified.Particularly brutal was Daniels’s own frustration with herself for having ended up in a situation where Trump expected sex from her. On the stand, she seemed bitter over her own misapprehension that Trump had been interested in having a real conversation about her career aspirations. She had wanted “to be taken seriously as a writer and director” and hoped that appearing on The Apprentice might help get her there. Again, this carries an echo of Harvey Weinstein, and the many women who described their disappointment when they realized that the producer had no real interest in their work but saw them only as an object for abuse.For all the attention that Daniels’s testimony has received, how much of a difference it will really make to an eventual verdict is not obvious. Though prosecutors seem to have calculated that her story will help build their case, the key questions they must prove to the jury don’t depend on what Daniels says happened to her that evening or whether she’s telling the truth. And there’s a risk that the sometimes-graphic details shared by Daniels might provide Trump with legal arguments with which to appeal any conviction, on the grounds that they could bias the jury against the defendant in a case that doesn’t turn legally on matters of sex. Twice, following Daniels’s testimony, Trump’s legal team moved for a mistrial on these same grounds—motions that the trial judge denied.On cross-examination, the former president’s lawyer seemed committed to attacking Daniels’s credibility regarding her interactions with Trump. The questions took a shape familiar to anyone who has ever been questioned about their own experience of assault: Shouldn’t you have known that this was what he wanted? You didn’t say no? Aren’t you just making this all up? Daniels fought back, insisting on the truth of what had happened to her. Throughout it all, Trump sat there silently. When Daniels left the courtroom, he looked straight ahead, not turning to watch her go.

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For high schoolers across America, prom season means heady nights of corsages, limousines, broken curfews, and gaudy, bedazzled gowns—except, maybe not that last part anymore. The words prom dress once conjured images of shimmering taffeta and poofy princess skirts and other cringeworthy fashion choices only teens would make. You can still buy those types of dresses, but these days, high-school dance floors are more refined, filled with slinky satin, garden-party florals, and corseted bodices—designs that women in their 20s, 30s, and beyond might wear.Over the past decade or so, the style divisions among age groups have become far more fluid. Social media has flattened the landscape of influence, so people of all ages are being fed similar content. Retail, meanwhile, has moved away from age-specific brands toward fast-fashion sites and online stores with wide appeal. The assimilation is especially clear in prom style. Teens will wear just about any fancy adult look to the dance, whether it be a relatively casual dress you might see at an Easter brunch, or a jumpsuit fit for the red carpet. This has spurred an existential crisis in teen fashion: What even is a prom dress anymore?[Read: A trans prom on the Capitol Lawn]That question once had a distinct answer. High schoolers in earlier decades had specialized magazine editions such as Teen Prom and Seventeen Prom, which promised hundreds of pages of “pretty dresses” designed just for that night. Chain stores made for young people, such as Rue21, and separate junior sections at department stores made these styles easy to shop for. Now most of those teen magazines are defunct, many of the chains have declared bankruptcy, and many department stores have closed. Teens have been left to their own devices.Grace Karle, an 18-year-old senior from Illinois, has tried a few different sartorial approaches. At her first prom, last year, she wore a “classic, Cinderella-looking blue dress”—an archetypal “for teens” look. But in retrospect, she realized it wasn’t her style. So this year, she scoured Pinterest for inspiration and ultimately chose a floral, full-length, ruffled gown with a matching belt and ribbon-tie sleeves. It’s a sophisticated look, made by a brand, V. Chapman, that is a favorite of bridal parties. I have friends in their 30s who have worn similar styles to summer weddings. For Karle, this was part of the appeal. She wanted something that didn’t scream “prom” so that when she was older, she could look at photos and think, “Oh, that dress is so pretty,” she told me.A lot of young people shopping for prom are, like Karle, drawing from a world of influences unbounded by age. On social media, “someone who’s 17 may follow someone who’s 35, or someone who’s 35 may follow a 16-year-old,” Felicia Garay-Stanton, the PR director for Jovani, one of the best-known prom brands, told me. The few remaining teen chains, such as Abercrombie, have adjusted their offerings to draw in more 20- and 30-somethings, attempting to compete with online stores that have more expansive selections. Jovani’s options have blurred the line too, Garay-Stanton told me. She recently spoke with a woman in her late 30s who was trying on one of the brand’s “iconic prom styles” for a black-tie wedding; it fit the event’s dress code flawlessly. When you can wear anything to prom, you can wear a prom dress to anything.This trend aligns with the dissolving of generational boundaries more broadly. Some members of Gen Alpha (infamously dubbed the “Sephora tweens”) have been emulating the multistep skin-care routines of influencers double their age. Adults are buying stuffed animals, a phenomenon some have labeled “kidulthood.” Strict age-based taste distinctions aren’t necessarily innate, so it’s perhaps unsurprising that the categories we’ve constructed are converging.When it comes to prom, teen and adult styles have aligned before. In the modern imagination, prom is defined by movies and memories of the ’80s, ’90s, and early aughts: Pretty in Pink’s DIY polka dots, Mean Girls’ strapless minidresses, 10 Things I Hate About You’s understated blue slip. But the dance has evolved significantly throughout its history, as teens have changed their minds about whether they agree with adult tastes. Sometimes prom is “completely in sync with fashion, and then sometimes it’s doing its own thing,” Pamela Roskin, an assistant professor at Parsons School of Design who has studied the prom dress’s evolution, told me. Today, no single look defines the dance. The popularity of sheer-paneled bustiers and figure-hugging gowns may be explained by the age-old teenage desire to look glamorous and mature. Frilly florals and bows, which are also common, may show a desire to return to innocence and an old-fashioned kind of femininity. The looks vary from region to region, too. According to Garay-Stanton, shoppers in the Northeast tend toward simple looks in black or red, Texans opt for wilder colors and sequins, and southerners like girlish ruffles. In many Black communities, elaborate custom evening gowns are the norm; one Mississippi TikToker joked that high schoolers in that state were dressing for the “Facebook Met Gala.” Many girls are opting for something more gender-neutral, such as a jumpsuit or a suit—and, of course, dresses aren’t only for girls.[Read: Why teens are selling clothes out of their closets]Some people miss prom fashion’s former distinctiveness and are resisting recent signs of change. Schools and parents have long pushed back on dresses they deem too revealing. And in recent years, several have made headlines for barring girls and nonbinary students from prom for wearing suits. But there’s also a debate playing out across social media about whether some of the new styles are “appropriate” for prom. Karle saw the force of these opinions when she posted a video of her second, less-teenage-looking dress on TikTok. A deluge of commenters told her the look was too casual for the big night. The comments were surprising and disappointing to Karle, who adores her dress and said she thinks people should loosen their expectations.Many adults feel wistful when they see a prom dress that instantly takes them back to their own special evening—however awkward and imperfect it may have been. But teens don’t exist to fuel adult nostalgia. What should a prom dress be? is “the ultimate question,” Roskin said. “And every generation gets to ask it.” Prom-dress style is so special precisely because young people have the power to determine it for themselves.

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