Jewish Culture Mad About Bari Weiss: The New York Times Provocateur the Left Loves to HateVanity Fair - By Evgenia Peretz | Photographs by Martin Schoeller | Styled by Nicole ChapoteauThe Times op-ed writer is a Trump-loathing theater nerd who studied at a feminist yeshiva and used to date Kate McKinnon. She also led a controversial protest at Columbia, and popularized the “intellectual
The White House The White House Escalates Its Battle to Keep Don McGahn SilentVanity Fair - By Alison DurkeeThe president is pulling out all the stops to keep his former White House counsel from testifying before Congress. The White House is preparing for another showdown against House Democrats, this time testimony
Jack Dorsey Trump Brought Jack Dorsey to the White House to Complain About His Twitter AccountVanity Fair - By Tina NguyenA “significant portion” of their meeting reportedly focused on Trump’s fear that Twitter is tampering with his follower count. Jack Dorsey has met with leaders of New Zealand, South Korea, Japan, and to
Donald Trump “Trump’s Furious with Don”: Inside the President’s Mar-a-Lago MeltdownVanity Fair - By Gabriel ShermanThe president is raging against his former staff and wants to sue Don McGahn—but staff think he and his lawyers blew it. “You didn’t have to send me in there,” said one witness. But Giuliani says: Nothing
Jared Kushner Kushner: So Russia Bought “a Couple of Facebook Ads,” So WhatVanity Fair - By Bess LevinAccording to the First Son-in-Law, Bob Mueller did more damage to this country than Russia ever could. If you get your news exclusively from @realDonaldTrump’s Twitter feed, you might be under the impression
Donald Trump “This Is Not a Mea Culpa”: How Trump Weaponized the Times’s Post-Election Non-Apology to ReadersVanity Fair - By Joe PompeoA message composed in haste to shocked subscribers after Trump’s election has become one of Trump’s favorite Twitter cudgels. But the Times says it “never apologized.” Donald Trump’s attacks on The New
Herman Cain Herman Cain Says He Dropped Out of Fed Running Because He Loves Money Too MuchVanity Fair - By Bess LevinNot because he was never going to be confirmed, on account of the sexual harassment allegations, the penny-stock peddling, or the “BREAKTHROUGH” E.D. cure claims. Late Monday evening, the U.S. central
Pete Buttigieg Pete Buttigieg’s Campaign Honeymoon Is Coming to an EndVanity Fair - By Eric LutzAs the South Bend mayor rises in the polls, his challengers are starting to take him seriously—which means they’re scrambling to dig up dirt on the “kid mayor who nobody knows anything about.” He entered
Joe Biden Joe Biden Seems Confused About His Own 2020 LaunchVanity Fair - By Tina NguyenBiden advisers say the candidate will “project a ‘determined’ air” when he announces on Wednesday, or maybe Thursday, or whenever he gets his act together. For someone selling himself as a leader, Biden
Impeachment The White House Is Making a Huge Bet on ImpeachmentVanity Fair - By Eric LutzKamala Harris became the second 2020 candidate to call for impeachment. But the White House is unconcerned. “The likelihood that the Democrats will try to impeach the president is next to zero,” said official.
Elon Musk Elon Musk Wants His Own “Robot Taxis” to Replace Uber and LyftVanity Fair - By Alison DurkeeThe Tesla C.E.O. said there could be “one million” of the self-driving cars on the road by next year—but he has a history of overpromising. Your Uber or Lyft rides could soon be replaced by robot taxis,
Trump Administration Trump’s Fed Pick: Keep Women Out of Sports, Unless They Make Me HornyVanity Fair - By Bess Levin“No more women refs, no women announcers, no women beer venders, no women anything.” These are actual opinions espoused by Stephen Moore. The No. 1 factor working against Stephen Moore’s candidacy for
Herman Cain “Trump Is Trump. He Doesn’t Care That Much”: Wall Street Thinks Trump Is Trolling with His Fed PicksVanity Fair - By William D. CohanHerman “9-9-9” Cain is out. But that leaves another patently unqualified candidate, Stephen Moore, co-author of Trumponomics—and the finance crowd is mostly relying on the Senate to figure that out. And
Writers Guild of America Winter Is Coming for Hollywood: Why L.A. Is Ground Zero for the Next Tech ApocalypseVanity Fair - By Nick BiltonHollywood may be the last creative industry not to be hollowed out by technology. What happens when Silicon Valley starts replacing screenwriters with bots, and your favorite actress with C.G.I.? In some
Elizabeth Warren Can Elizabeth Warren Get Her Groove Back?Vanity Fair - By Tina NguyenShe has the most ambitious policy platform of any Democrat. So how come she’s not doing better in the polls? It’s hard to escape the feeling that Elizabeth Warren is underperforming. On Monday, the Massachusetts
Easter Bunny Trump Spends White House Easter Event Updating Kids on His Border WallVanity Fair - By Bess Levin“It’s happening. It’s being built now,” the president told a group of children who’d come to see the Easter Bunny. The White House Easter Egg Roll is an annual event that takes place on the South Lawn
Politics Trump Would Prefer His Staff Not Record Him Ordering Them to Commit CrimesVanity Fair - By Bess LevinUnfortunately his history of being a pathological liar necessitates taking copious notes. Several hundred pages into the Mueller report comes an illuminating exchange between Donald Trump and former White
Impeachment Democrats Are Beginning to Break with Nancy Pelosi on ImpeachmentVanity Fair - By Eric LutzOn Capitol Hill, a growing number of lawmakers argue that doing nothing is not an option. When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi convenes Democrats on Monday to discuss the Mueller report, she will look to strike
Seth Moulton Is Seth Moulton the Next Beto, or a Poor Man’s Pete Buttigieg?Vanity Fair - By Tina NguyenMoulton will be under pressure to differentiate himself in a crowded field where he is neither the youngest candidate nor the only veteran. Can he revive his reputation after an ill-fated scrap with Nancy
Sri Lanka Authorities Blame Islamic Extremists as Sri Lanka Death Toll RisesVanity Fair - By Eric LutzThe Easter Sunday bombings marked the country’s deadliest violence in a decade, claiming the lives of at least 290 people across the island. The death toll has risen to nearly 300 following the deadly
Rudy Giuliani Rudy Giuliani Says “There’s Nothing Wrong With Taking Information From Russians”Vanity Fair - By Kevin FitzpatrickPresident Trump’s attorney doubled down on his “collusion isn’t a crime anyway” defense. There's “nothing wrong with taking information from Russians,” Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani told Jake Tapper on
Impeachment Elizabeth Warren Is Officially Calling For Trump's ImpeachmentVanity Fair - By Alison DurkeeThe Senator's announcement marked the boldest statement yet from the 2020 field. The 2020 candidates are starting to join the growing calls for Trump's impeachment, as the release of the redacted Mueller
Donald Trump The “Red Line” Investigations that Will Haunt Trump’s PresidencyVanity Fair - By Abigail TracyWith 14 potential cases referred by the special prosecutor, investigators in New York, Washington, and Congress are zeroing in on the president, his family, and his business dealings. For Donald Trump,
Sports“The Direction the Paper Was Heading in Had My Father Turning Over in His Grave”: With a New Owner, Can The National EnquirerVanity Fair - By Joe PompeoNewsstand scion James Cohen is taking over the legendarily scurrilous Ur-Tabloid. But is David Pecker really gone? Over the course of its 93-year history, The National Enquirer has ping-ponged between
Robert Mueller Post-Mueller, Are the Conways Sleeping in Separate Rooms?Vanity Fair - By Tina NguyenBifurcated as the media landscape is, it is tempting to see in the continued union of the Conways a sign that perhaps American, too, might survive the trauma of the Mueller report. Is the saga of Kellyanne
Joe Biden Looks Like Joe Biden Wasn't Shooting 2020 Ads Just for the Hell of ItVanity Fair - By Eric LutzAfter months of back and forth and a campaign-ad spoiler, the former V.P. is finally set to enter the race. The wait is almost over. Joe Biden, who’s leading a jam-packed field of Democrats he hasn’t joined
Politics “A Normal Person Would Have Been Indicted”: Trumpworld Reckons with the Mueller Report’s Devastating ImpactVanity Fair - By Gabriel ShermanWilliam Barr couldn’t save them. In 448 pages, a deeply corrupt West Wing culture was revealed. And the real time bomb, says a Trumpworld insider, “is the S.D.N.Y.” At 9:57 A.M. yesterday, Donald Trump
William Barr The Mueller Bombshell Hiding in Plain SightVanity Fair - By Nick BiltonPlus: what happened to the pee tape? Abigail Tracy joins Nick to discuss all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Inside the Hive. It appears Attorney General William Barr wasn’t being entirely truthful
Don McGahn “Total Bullshit”: Trump Bashes West Wing Advisers Who Saved His SkinVanity Fair - By Eric LutzThe president is furious at staffers who blabbed to Robert Mueller. But their refusal to follow orders may have shielded Trump from legal liability. Donald Trump woke up angry on Friday. At approximately
