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"As President Donald Trump barnstorms the country to rally Republicans for the upcoming midterm elections, he’s content to play the hits," writes VF's @aidnmclaughlin. "You’d hardly know that he’s grappling with a war in the Middle East or staring down an endless stream of congressional investigations as his party braces for what could be a historic wipeout in November.
This election will ultimately serve, like every midterm before it, as a referendum on the man in the White House. Should Democrats win control of the House of Representatives, the next two years of Trump’s administration will look very different from the first two, when he operated with unprecedented power and impunity. November 3 will undoubtedly mark a turning point not just for this new flock of Democrats hoping to descend on Washington in January, but also for a White House that has sought to alter the fabric of the country and its relationship with the world."
Welcome to the midterms: vanityfair.visitlink.me/4zhq…
Let them eat... olive spheres?
At Airbnb’s first-ever gala, Jimmy Kimmel cracked jokes, Charli xcx performed, and guests like Serena Williams and Matthew McConaughey rubbed shoulders with wildfire survivors as billionaire Brian Chesky announced a $500 million commitment to emergency housing.
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Sir Patrick Stewart, the beloved actor of stage, screen, and television, died Wednesday following “a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia,” according to his representative Kelly Bush Novak. He was 86 years old.
The performer, best known in this and every other star system as Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise, first appeared in the legendary role in September 1987. After seven seasons of television, four feature films, several video games and site-specific interactive experiences, he returned to the character in the age of streaming, finally warping to retirement, surrounded by his crew, in April 2023.
Read the full obituary by Jordan Hoffman: vanityfair.visitlink.me/JGX7…
Photographer @annieleibovitz (October 2013 Issue)
"When I reached out to see if Fuentes would like to comment on this story, he first replied over text: 'Groyper gossip? Boooooo.'" vanityfair.com/story/nick-fu…
With sneering racism, antisemitism, and misogyny, Nick Fuentes has built a massive following of young men that could make him a midterms kingmaker on the right. So where is he? vanityfair.com/story/nick-fu…
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I look into the history-making noms that YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING will likely get this Oscar season.
Is Elizabeth Holmes the biggest star of Oscar season?
'You Can See Everything' will likely make history as the first documentary nominated for best picture—and there’s potential for a few more surprise twists: vanityfair.visitlink.me/jyTv…
The biggest star of Oscar season may be a woman who can’t even attend.
This past month, one name has been circling around Hollywood more than any other: Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. The documentary ‘You Can See Everything’— which follows Holmes during the 34 days leading up to her 11-year prison sentence for fraud (now reduced to 10 years)—has become a must-see sensation and a box-office hit.
We’ve already covered the most shocking revelations from the A24 film, but another big twist could be coming: ‘You Can See Everything’ is very likely to become the first documentary ever nominated for best picture.
Read more from VF's @Beccamford: vanityfair.visitlink.me/-X5Q…
For close to a decade, livestreaming extremist Nick Fuentes has led a growing cohort of young men toward what’s looked like the insidious post-Trump future of the right. But as his movement is consumed by nihilism and infighting, it’s become a fitting outgrowth of Trump’s own cult of personality. When reached for comment, though, Fuentes said he’s moving strategically: vanityfair.visitlink.me/fRT0…
Welcome to the 2026 midterms: weird, wild, vital, nasty, and unnervingly online.
If 2024 was the podcast election, 2026 is shaping up to be the short-form-video election. A fresh crop of young Democrats is using viral videos to catapult their campaigns to national attention and build massive war chests. Ossoff has pulled in $110 million this election cycle thanks in part to this modern media strategy, while Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is betting that social media stardom can translate into votes.
In Vanity Fair’s series leading up to Election Day, we’re popping around the country to examine the hope and mire of the campaign trail and take stock of where the country might go next.
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Unpacking Nicki Minaj’s MAGA Style Evolution vanityfair.com/story/unpacki…
Gay people (mostly) explain gay Halloween: “As long as you think it’s funny and you get it, you’re doing gay Halloween right” vanityfair.com/story/gay-hal…
Is Elizabeth Holmes the biggest star of Oscar season?
'You Can See Everything' will likely make history as the first documentary nominated for best picture—and there’s potential for a few more surprise twists: vanityfair.visitlink.me/jyTv…
Anthony Boyle on reaching out to Sam Bankman-Fried in prison:
"Annoyingly for this interview, I promised him that I wouldn’t divulge anything. I asked him to open his heart up to me, and he really did. He was very forthcoming with over 100 questions in emails. He answered, I’d say, 98% of them. Even the ones that he didn’t answer were very telling for me, because you’re like a detective, trying to figure out how he answers them and in what way. And can you trust it?" vanityfair.visitlink.me/F9Y9…
Anthony Boyle on playing a character outside of period dramas:
"It’s the first time I had to act with a laptop and an iPhone, and it’s so annoying. There’s no one there that you’re looking at. You’re just looking at a green screen. And then it [causes problems]—like, Oh, we saw the camera in the reflection when you turned it that way. These things that I didn’t have to deal with before because I was, as you said, Mr. Period Man." vanityfair.visitlink.me/F9Y9…
Anthony Boyle talks playing Sam Bankman-Fried in 'The Altruists,' a Netflix drama about the rise and fall of FTX: “Sam might have been the world’s first trillionaire had he not gone to jail”
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The next two years in the United States will be informed—heavily—by what happens in the 2026 midterm elections on Tuesday. Will Democrats take control of the House and haul an endless parade of Trump administration officials before their committees for questioning? Will they take the Senate too, and really put the brakes on Donald Trump’s presidency? Which state legislatures and governors’ mansions will change hands?
Yes, the proceedings are freighted with world-historical gravity. But the many campaigns barreling toward their conclusions across the country have also proved impressively wild and weird.
Before the results roll in after Tuesday’s big night, here’s everything you need to know—and a few things you don’t: vanityfair.visitlink.me/1BtE…
At Medieval Times, a dinner-theater kingdom faces a reckoning.
Alessandra Schade spent months reporting on the people who worked inside the popular themed restaurant, and what she found was lawsuits, allegations of sexual harassment and animal abuse, and a workplace some employees found to be as medieval as it’s namesake.
Schade investigates how a place built around a fairy tale became a nightmare for the people living it. Read the full story: vanityfair.visitlink.me/j-I1…
For over a year, wealthy donors have been trying to find a replacement for LA mayor Karen Bass. Billionaire developer Rick Caruso was encouraged by Ari Emanuel to consider another run for elected office. Spencer Pratt, the reality TV villain whose house burned down in the Palisades fire, transformed his personal tragedy into an insurgent mayoral campaign. But neither man became Bass’s 2026 general-election opponent.
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Instead, the challenge came from the left, in the form of Nithya Raman, a Harvard-educated democratic socialist who even endorsed the mayor’s reelection before entering the race. Now Bass finds herself vying for Pratt supporters on the right. She’s made public safety—an issue Pratt harped on—central to her reelection campaign, and has tried to paint Raman as soft on crime. vanityfair.visitlink.me/Xvdc…
It’s a bit of an ironic situation that Bass finds herself in. Before she was mayor, before she was a congresswoman, before she became Speaker of the California state assembly, she was a teenage radical who considered running for public office an act of ideological surrender. “Running for office was selling out,” she tells VF.
Has she changed? Or, like Reagan before her, has the increasingly left-leaning Democratic Party left her behind? vanityfair.visitlink.me/Xvdc…
Karen Bass is not particularly impressed by the younger generation of progressive activists in Los Angeles:
“I don’t feel like there’s a real appreciation or thirst for history of past movements to learn past lessons." vanityfair.visitlink.me/t4o_…