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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.”
2024 Election

Underestimated at Every Turn, Kamala Harris Delivers

The political and media establishment has finally come around to seeing the VP’s strengths.
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.

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.

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?

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.
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.

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.

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.
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.
ELECTION 2024

“Coach” Tim Walz’s 2024 DNC Speech Was the Biggest Pep Talk of His Life

The Minnesota governor and VP nominee drew deep from his football background to deliver a dramatic speech brimming with optimism and jabs at “weird” Republicans like JD Vance.
2024 election

Hillary Clinton Says Her DNC 2024 Speech “Was Cathartic”: Exclusive

In a new interview with Vanity Fair, Secretary Clinton speaks about writing one of the most groundbreaking speeches of her career—and the emotions it released from 2016.