Sydney Sweeney was spotted cozying up to a mystery man in Idaho, rocking a cheeky swimsuit and sparking fresh romance buzz post-breakup—while still facing heat over her controversial American Eagle ad ...

The issue with Sweeney is that she is a celebrity whose image is so semiotically potent, and yet ideologically unfixed, that the whole question of What She Means becomes contested political territory.

White House Director of Communications Steven Cheung has dubbed the fallout over the recent American Eagle advertisement ...

Some critics saw the wordplay as a nod, either unintentional or deliberate, to the discredited theory of eugenics.

American Eagle isn’t the only brand to cast an Americana, bombshell girl-next-door type and get mixed reviews.