Vanity Fair published an excerpt from Chris Whipple’s new book on the final years of Joe Biden’s presidency, under the headline “Did Aides Cover Up His Mental State — or Was It Group Delusion?” (News+ link): The president’s wobbly state should have been a flashing warning light. … | Continue reading
“Are You Saying No to Elon Musk?”: Scenes from the Slash-and-Burn Buyout of Twitter. | Continue reading
Debate-Night Coaching: 10 Pointers for Kamala Harris. | Continue reading
Apple Original Films had originally promised writer-director Jon Watts and co-stars George Clooney and Brad Pitt a wide theatrical release for their upcoming (and seemingly well-reviewed) movie Wolfs. But, pretty much at the last minute, Apple canceled those plans, and instead wi … | Continue reading
Have We Learned Anything Since 2016? (Voters have. The Democrats have. Journalists? No not even a teeny bit.) | Continue reading
RFK Jr.’s Family Doesn’t Want Him to Run. Even They May Not Know His Darkest Secrets. | Continue reading
Francis Ford Coppola's Epic ‘Megalopolis’ Drops First Trailer. | Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
The archconservative, who authored the opinion ending the national right to an abortion, apparently thinks critiquing his actions “crosses an important line.” | Continue reading
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
Choreographer Mandy Moore gives a detailed breakdown of “Another Day of Sun,” from “sassy step-backs” to hidden cuts. | Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
‘Light & Magic’ explores the hard-partying innovators who made ‘Star Wars’—and changed moviemaking. | Continue reading
While journalists have already exposed police failures, national and local outlets are also uniting in an effort for greater transparency. The goal, says a lawyer behind the media coalition, is to "get as many answers as we possibly can for this community."(vanityfair.com) | Continue reading
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
The porn trilogy for Nintendos. Atari games from the 1980s. Pristine nostalgia, potentially worth millions, gone in a night. | Continue reading
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
A skeptical—and famished—American reports from Great Britain’s snootiest horse race. | Continue reading
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
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
Since fleeing MAGA-land, Farah Griffin scored a CNN gig and is auditioning to fill Meghan McCain's old seat on The View. Can this Mark Meadows protégé pull off a post-Trump rebrand? On a rainy Tuesday morning on the Upper West Side, an ebullient studio audience of mostly middle-a … | Continue reading
Matt Gaetz Accidentally Reminds People He’s a Loser Who Allegedly Has to Pay Women for Sex. | Continue reading
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
Desperate for subscriber eyeballs, streamers are pulling back on edgy content—and acting more like the networks they trounced in the revolution. | Continue reading
Saudi Arabia, which famously dismembered a man via bone saw, was worried Kushner was a P.R. risk to them. | Continue reading
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
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
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
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
In Afghanistan, snipers have found the war that needs them most. William Langewiesche enters their world. | Continue reading
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
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
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
The star reporter with a massive online following thinks the ‘Post’ gets the internet in ways other outlets don’t. | Continue reading
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
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
Vanity Fair’s television critic on the most captivating shows of the year. | Continue reading