"We're All Embarrassed": Inside Fox News as Dominion Revelations Rattle the Network

Some employees at Fox admit to feeling self-conscious about the scandal-"We're all embarrassed" was a quote I heard more than once-even if they don't feel personally responsible for the mess. After all, many correspondents, editors, and producers had no direct involvement with th … | Continue reading


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All the Books to Read and Buy in March | Vanity Fair

BOLOGNA AND PAVAROTTI: GETTY IMAGES. LOST IN TRANSLATION: EVERETT COLLECTION. Bologna, Italy. The city is “where I found my true self,” says Funke ... | Continue reading


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Can the White House Correspondents' Dinner "Spread the Gospel of the Fourth Estate"?

A typical day for Tamara Keith involves shouting at the president of the United States. But when the NPR White House correspondent isn't wearing out her vocal cords on the South Lawn, trying to get Joe Biden to comment on the news of the day, she has a somewhat more glamorous ass … | Continue reading


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The company’s stock has plummeted almost 70% this past year, prices and demand are down, and Democrats are souring on the brand. “I found myself not wanting to be associated with anything related to Musk,” says one Tesla-owning liberal media personality. | Continue reading


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Musk Twitter Takeover: Questions and Answers

Will employees flee—and Trump return? With so many twists and turns in the Musk-Twitter saga, playing out in the courtroom and on the platform, it’s tough to game out where all this is headed. But let’s give it a shot. | Continue reading


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The archconservative, who authored the opinion ending the national right to an abortion, apparently thinks critiquing his actions “crosses an important line.” | Continue reading


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Darth Vader’s Voice Emanated From War-Torn Ukraine

As the conflict raged, Ukrainian tech workers at Respeecher hurried to bring back James Earl Jones’s legendary voice for Obi-Wan Kenobi. | Continue reading


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La La Land Pulled Off That Highway Dance Sequence (2017)

Choreographer Mandy Moore gives a detailed breakdown of “Another Day of Sun,” from “sassy step-backs” to hidden cuts. | Continue reading


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The Ballad of Razzlekhan and Dutch, Bitcoin's Bonnie and Clyde

Couples rarely commit crimes together. But Heather "Razzlekhan" Morgan and Ilya "Dutch" Lichtenstein, whose social media antics disguised an alleged plot to abscond with billions in stolen crypto, are no ordinary couple. It was around 3 a.m. the first time they arrived.(vanityfai … | Continue reading


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The Woke Civil War at the New York Times

Catalyzed by the Trump presidency, roiled by flash points like Glenn Thrush, Bret Stephens, and Bari Weiss, a generational conflict not seen since the 60s is besetting the Times. | Continue reading


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It’s Time for Big-Name Artists to Join Music’s New Labor Movement

A new proposal by Rep. Rashida Tlaib calls for streaming services like Spotify to divert some of their record profits to musicians in the form of direct royalties. An indie-rock veteran (remember Galaxie 500?) explains why your favorite major-label artists have yet to join the ch … | Continue reading


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Welcome to the Dark Net, a Wilderness Where Invisible World Wars Are F.. (2016)

Through the eyes of a master hacker turned security expert, William Langewiesche chronicles the rise of the Dark Net—where weapons, drugs, and information are bought, sold, and hacked—and learns how high the stakes have really become. | Continue reading


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Gore Vidal: The Meaning of Timothy McVeigh (2008)

Americans were fed the story of Timothy McVeigh’s trial and execution as a simple, unquestionable narrative: he was guilty, he was evil, and he acted largely alone. Gore Vidal’s 1998 Vanity Fair essay on the erosion of the U.S. Bill of Rights caused McVeigh to begin a three-year … | Continue reading


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Ben Smith's Lofty, Perhaps Ill-Timed, Analogy for Semafor's Global Play: The "Netflix" of News

The Semafor co-founder appears to be running out of ways to pitch his buzzy news startup. Having just hired a couple of journalists in Africa, he analogized his ambitions to Netflix's international footprint, but in an interview with Vanity Fair, he didn't seem quite sure what he … | Continue reading


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"I'm Gonna Be Open Even If Sometimes That's Messy": How Sally Buzbee Is Putting Her Stamp on 'The Washington Post'

The executive editor opens up about her first frenetic year atop the masthead-tackling everything from newsroom restructuring to Twitter tumult-and ongoing challenges, from covering threats to democracy to actually meeting staffers in person. On a recent July morning, roughly 250 … | Continue reading


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Industrial Light and Magic Was Basically Animal House Back in the ’70s

‘Light & Magic’ explores the hard-partying innovators who made ‘Star Wars’—and changed moviemaking. | Continue reading


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Visit to a Small Planet (2008)

North Koreans worship their dead dictator, Kim Il Sung, and his son the reigning Kim Jong Il, despite the surreal nightmare of famine, isolation, repression, and nuclear peril the dynasty has spawned. In Pyongyang, the author wonders whether mass delusion is the only thing that k … | Continue reading


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Rare video games collection heist

The porn trilogy for Nintendos. Atari games from the 1980s. Pristine nostalgia, potentially worth millions, gone in a night. | Continue reading


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The importance of being Orwell (2012)

In his introduction to a volume of George Orwell’s diaries, the late Christopher Hitchens dissected one of the 20th century’s finest political minds. | Continue reading


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They Don’t Sell Corn Dogs at Royal Ascot

A skeptical—and famished—American reports from Great Britain’s snootiest horse race. | Continue reading


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Inside The High-Stakes Race to Recover Qaddafi’s Ill-Gotten Billions

While spooks, treasure hunters, and lawyers search for cash, gold, and antiquities, Libya offers a lesson—and 1,001 cautionary tales—about how to recoup loot from kleptocrats. | Continue reading


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Substack's Founders Talk About the Culture Wars

The newsletter company is on a mission to disrupt the attention economy away from “cheap outrage and flame wars,” drawing in literati from Patti Smith to Salman Rushdie. But its refusal to engage with hate and disinformation means controversy is never far behind. | Continue reading


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Matt Gaetz Accidentally Reminds People He’s a Loser Who Allegedly Has to Pay Women for Sex. | Continue reading


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The Frenzied World of Rare Watches and the Rich People Who Love Them

Paul Newman’s $17 million Rolex was just the beginning. Now, celebrities, style icons, dealers, auctioneers, and regular Joes do battle for vintage Patek Philippes, Audemars Piguets, and Richard Milles. | Continue reading


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Streamers are acting like network TV, as they pull back on edgy content

Desperate for subscriber eyeballs, streamers are pulling back on edgy content—and acting more like the networks they trounced in the revolution. | Continue reading


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Saudi Arabia Concluded Jared Kushner Was a Joke, Gave Him $2B

Saudi Arabia, which famously dismembered a man via bone saw, was worried Kushner was a P.R. risk to them. | Continue reading


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“This shouldn’t happen”: Inside the virus-hunting nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance

Chasing scientific renown, grant dollars, and approval from Dr. Anthony Fauci, Peter Daszak transformed the environmental nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance into a government-funded sponsor of risky, cutting-edge virus research in both the U.S. and Wuhan, China. Drawing on more than 10 … | Continue reading


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The Succession Drama at Scholastic

When the CEO of Scholastic died suddenly last year, he left control of the family empire to a former colleague—his ex-girlfriend. Now there may be a showdown brewing over billions of dollars in kids’ fare. | Continue reading


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Inside the Succession Drama at Scholastic, Where 'Harry Potter' and 'Clifford' Hang in ... - Vanity Fair

When the CEO of Scholastic died suddenly last year, he left control of the family empire to a former colleague—his ex-girlfriend. Now there may be a showdown brewing over billions of dollars in kids’ fare. | Continue reading


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Grimes Reveals Y, Her New Baby Daughter with Elon Musk, in Cover Interview

The visionary pop star holds nothing back, talking with Vanity Fair about everything under the sun, including her thrilling upcoming album, ‘Book 1.’ | Continue reading


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The Distant Executioner (2010)

In Afghanistan, snipers have found the war that needs them most. William Langewiesche enters their world. | Continue reading


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The Ugly Truth of How Movie Scores Are Made

The streaming revolution is changing the way film composers get paid and exposing the flaws of a system where big names farm their scores out to uncredited “ghost composers.” Now, the artists actually writing the music are demanding recognition—and a fair share of the profits. | Continue reading


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Amazon’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ Series Rises: Inside ‘The Rings of Power’

One show to rule them all—the first look at a billion-dollar saga set thousands of years before J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendary trilogy. | Continue reading


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“It's Like Working for Dr. Evil” – Facebook's Stock Crash Is a Long Time Coming

The company’s stock plunged more than 24% following a disastrous earnings call, signaling that maybe, finally, Wall Street thinks just as poorly of the company as everyone else does. | Continue reading


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The star reporter with a massive online following thinks the ‘Post’ gets the internet in ways other outlets don’t. | Continue reading


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"Spotify Needs Him Way More Than He Needs Spotify": Joe Rogan Drama Exposes the Drift of Audio Giant's Other Mega Deals

Spotify’s once-grand star-studded podcast ambitions now rest squarely on Rogan’s shoulders. Even the Obamas are frustrated with their deal. As one industry insider put it, having Joe Rogan “is like dropping a Taylor Swift album every day.” | Continue reading


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Biden Admin Rejected an October Proposal for “Free Rapid Tests for the Holidays”

With omicron cases spreading like wildfire, the White House is finally taking steps to make free antigen tests available to all. But this fall, Vanity Fair has learned, it dismissed a bold plan to ramp up rapid testing ahead of the holidays. Frustrated experts explain how confusi … | Continue reading


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Vanity Fair’s television critic on the most captivating shows of the year. | Continue reading


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How the FBI Discovered a Real-Life Indiana Jones In, Rural Indiana

A 90-year-old amateur archaeologist who claimed to have detonated the first atomic bomb was also one of the most prolific grave robbers in modern American history. | Continue reading


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Nilay Patel on Facebook’s Reckoning with Reality–and the Problems yet to Come

After a decade covering the Zucks, Googles, and Ubers of the scene, the Verge editor in chief reflects on tech’s troublesome relationship with the rest of the world. | Continue reading


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In Major Shift, NIH Admits Funding Risky Virus Research in Wuhan

A spokesman for Dr. Fauci says he has been “entirely truthful,” but a new letter belatedly acknowledging the National Institutes of Health’s support for virus-enhancing research adds more heat to the ongoing debate over whether a lab leak could have sparked the pandemic. | Continue reading


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Think Netflix’s Maid Is Hard to Watch? Good: That’s the Point

The show’s virtual poverty simulator is excellent proof of what it’s like when you have no good options. | Continue reading


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Squid Game Is, Unfortunately, the Perfect Show for Our Current Dystopia

The Korean survivor-game series skewers capitalism, chance, and base human instinct in a brutalizing modern parable. Naturally, it’s on track to be Netflix’s biggest hit in history. | Continue reading


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"Crisis of Trust in the Media": Inside A.G. Sulzberger's Top 'Times' Project

On a mission for 10 million paying customers, the paper has formed a new team to help ensure confidence in its journalism and broaden its reach beyond coastal hubs and across political lines. The goal, says one source, is to “win people over.” | Continue reading


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Mississippi Governor Announces Bold Plan to Do Nothing to Stop Covid

The United States is on track to surpass the death toll of the 1918 flu pandemic, but Tate Reeves and other GOP leaders are still playing politics. | Continue reading


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OnlyFans and the Myth of Owning Your Hustle

The platform’s betrayal of sex workers reveals hard truths about the greater creator economy at large. | Continue reading


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"I Did Not Know It Was a Man": The Surreal Story of How a Deadly Crash Upended South Dakota Politics

As South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg goes to trial, he has refused calls to step down over a fatal car accident that has confounded residents, split Republicans, and left a grieving family divided in its pursuit of justice. | Continue reading


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The Trump Organization and its CFO will reportedly be hit with criminal charges on Thursday, and additional indictments may be coming. | Continue reading


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