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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.
By Joel Simon
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“You Just Need an Email Address and Credit Card”: Trump Pauses Work on Campaign to Film Infomercial for Digital Trading Cards, Scrap of Debate Suit
“We’ll be talking about it for a long time.”
By Bess Levin
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.”
By Chris Smith
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.
By Bess Levin
commanders and chiefs
Brittany Mahomes and Patrick Mahomes Run 2 Different Plays on Politics
After her Trump Instagram like (and unlike) went viral, she lashed out against “haters” with “deep-rooted issues.” The Chiefs quarterback just wants you to vote.
By Kase Wickman
Trump Says Musk “Can’t Really” Serve in His Cabinet After Saying He’d Consider It
But a consulting gig is apparently still on the table.
By Bess Levin
2024 Election
Underestimated at Every Turn, Kamala Harris Delivers
The political and media establishment has finally come around to seeing the VP’s strengths.
By Molly Jong-Fast
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?
By Bess Levin
party/politics
Charli XCX Wanted the Kamala “Brat” Meme to Happen—She Didn’t Plan on the Politics
Sometimes it be like brat.
By Kase Wickman
Is Trump Trying to Weasel His Way Out of Debating Harris?
After agreeing to a September debate with Kamala Harris, the former president's campaign is suddenly fussing over the ground rules.
By Eric Lutz
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.
By Katie Herchenroeder
Trump Has Chernobyl-Level Meltdown Over Harris’s Democratic National Convention Triumph
He’s not handling it well.
By Bess Levin
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.
By Brian Stelter
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.
By James Pogue
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.
By Michael CalderonePhotography by Bruce Gilden
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.”
By Chris Smith
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.
By Kate Andersen Brower
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.”
By Eric Lutz
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.
By Kase Wickman
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.
By Natasha O'Neill
2024 Election
Trumpworld Eyes RFK Jr. Endorsement as a Way to Blunt Democrats’ Momentum
While Kamala Harris’s surging campaign and joyful convention have captured the news cycle, the Trump campaign is projecting confidence and expecting a potentially crucial uptick in support if the independent candidate gets on board.
By Gabriel Sherman