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2024 election

2024 Election

Laphonza Butler on “Fighting” for Kamala Harris, Serving With JD Vance, and the Threat of a Second Trump Term

In an interview with Vanity Fair, the senator highlighted the strategic clarity of Harris’s vision—“you can save democracy and have joy”—while taking her GOP opponents to task for putting on “political theater.”
Politics

RFK Jr., Who Thinks Chemicals in the Environment Can Make Children Gay, Will Help Trump “Pick the People Who Will Be Running the Government”

He told Tucker Carlson he's “looking forward” to the task.
Politics

RFK Jr. Whale-Beheading Story Gives RFK Jr. Bear-Murder Story a Run for Its Money

We’re one week away from learning Kennedy shot a donkey and wore its skin to breakfast, right?
party/politics

Charli XCX Wanted the Kamala “Brat” Meme to Happen—She Didn’t Plan on the Politics

Sometimes it be like brat.
2024 election

American Journalists Beware: A Second Trump Term Could Pose Very Real Risks

The former director of the Committee to Protect Journalists lays out the grave threats that American news outlets might confront—and offers proactive safeguards.
It's all about choices

“I Just Want Women To Have More Choices”: Senator JD Vance, Who Has Likened Abortion To Murder

The Republican vice presidential candidate was given several opportunities to apologize for “childless cat ladies” remarks and just couldn't—or wouldn't— do it.
Politics

Trump Has Chernobyl-Level Meltdown Over Harris’s Democratic National Convention Triumph

He’s not handling it well.
Inside the Hive

The Dems Are Riding High, but Kamala Harris Faces New Hurdles

After the final night of the Democratic National Convention, Vanity Fair editor in chief Radhika Jones and contributing editor Ta-Nehisi Coates discuss the triumphs and contradictions of this new Democratic Party.
Politics

Garrison Keillor on Tim Walz and the Lake Wobegon Problem

The former MPR host, a longtime symbol of Midwestern folksiness, has taken his own hits—which makes him the perfect person to call about Democrats’ attempt at revamping their cultural messaging.
Politics

Hope and Joy Take Hold at the 2024 DNC

The exuberance surrounding Kamala Harris’s surging candidacy was on display this week in Chicago, where Democrats enjoyed the festivities and embraced the future.
2024 Election

How the Kamala Harris Campaign Is Gaming Out the Homestretch

After a rapturous Democratic National Convention, the veep will spend the next two and a half months going deeper on policy, playing more ball with the media, and saturating the airwaves with ads. “This campaign,” says one surrogate, “is about stringing together as many good f--king days as we possibly can.”
2024 election

Nancy Pelosi’s Quiet, Cunning Power: “As Brilliant as Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos”

“Her attitude was, If you can’t manage it, why the hell are you in Congress?” says a former DCCC chair.
DNC

Kamala Harris Makes Her Case as Uniter-in-Chief in 2024 DNC Speech

The vice president hit on themes of “freedom” and “common sense” while painting Donald Trump’s allies as “out of their minds” for following him into the darkness. “The future is always worth fighting for,” she said. “We are not going back.”
miss independent

Oprah Winfrey Surprised the DNC—And Christian Siriano, Who Had No Idea She’d Wear His Design

“When Oprah calls and asks for a suit, like, I really don’t care if she’s going to the grocery store,” Siriano tells Vanity Fair.
2024 election

Republicans Are Being Weird to Kids at the 2024 DNC

Between mocking Tim Walz’s son who has a learning disability and yelling at a pre-teen about the “stolen” 2020 election, it’s been a banner week for MAGA bizarreness.
Politics

JD Vance, Running Mate of Guy Who’s Literally Claimed America Will Cease to Exist If He Loses, Accuses Democrats of “Dark and Ominous Tone”

As a reminder, Trump has also warned that a Harris win could lead to World War III
making a statement

Taylor Swift Describes "A New Sense of Fear" Following Thwarted Vienna Terror Plot

On Wednesday, the singer issued a statement on social media after wrapping the European leg of her Eras Tour. “Thanks to [authorities], we were grieving concerts and not lives,” she wrote.
exclusive

Kamala Harris Inspired a Character in a Movie You’ll Probably Never See

The team behind the 2011 indie Politics of Love reveals how the now presidential nominee influenced their film—and how they feel about its having virtually disappeared, even from the internet.