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It's true... I’ve been honored to run the Hive for the last several years, working with some of the best in the business. I'm immensely proud of the work we did through two presidential elections and a pandemic, and amid the persistent news cycle churn—will be rooting for the VF team going forward.

How JB Pritzker Is Fighting to Stop Trump From Redrawing the Map The pugnacious Illinois governor, who is shielding Texas lawmakers avoiding a vote on partisan redistricting efforts at home, tells Vanity Fair, “I knew on day one this time around, we had to fight ag...

I wrote about Gov Pritzker and the Texas redistricting fight

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Bernice King Speaks Out as the Government Releases Files About Her Father, Martin Luther King Jr. The declassification of a new round of MLK records conjures her mother Coretta’s words: “They keep trying to assassinate your father over and over again.”

We have an exclusive piece from Bernice King as the government releases MLK assassination files

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“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

"I wondered which border I had crossed without my knowledge" -- Rumeysa Ozturk, imprisoned for writing an op-ed in the Tufts University student newspaper. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

For the first time since she was freed from an immigration prison, Rümeysa Öztürk speaks. And she does so by ... writing:

"Writing is the heart of freedom of expression. Unbelievably, this single opinion piece, published in our student newspaper, would lead to my arrest and detention."

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

In a powerful first-person account, Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up for the first time about her shocking arrest and 45 days in an ICE detention center.

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Finally, a “Hillbilly Elegy for People Who Hate JD Vance” Former Obama speechwriter David Litt on the lessons Democrats can learn from the manosphere.

Former Obama speechwriter David Litt has some ideas about what Democrats can learn from the manosphere.

On Birthright Citizenship, the Supreme Court Gives Trump a Blunt Tool to Hammer Judges The president applauded the conservative majority’s 6-3 ruling limiting nationwide injunctions to stop executive orders, a move sure to sow chaos and open the door to unchecked lawlessness. As Justice...

Here’s my takedown of the Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship non-ruling:

Amy Coney Barrett takes balkanized, neo-Confederate approach where you’re only protected in areas where states or individual plaintiffs can sue—and nowhere else.

No way to run a railroad, let alone a nation of laws.

Make no mistake:

In all but nullifying nationwide, “universal” injunctions in these cases, where a uniform rule of law for birthright citizenship is gravely needed, the Supreme Court chose chaos.

Yes, the right still exists. But a lot of needless confusion, fear, and litigation lie ahead.

“Bullish for Tech”: Wall Street’s Most Tireless Optimist Isn’t Rattled by Trump, Musk, or Conflict in Iran As Trump bombs Iran and Musk melts down, Dan Ives says the future looks bright—for tech stocks, anyway.

In an exclusive interview with VF, Wall Street tech analyst Dan Ives talks Musk’s return to Tesla, the AI boom, and the market impact of the Israel-Iran conflict: “The market has gotten used to chaos and uncertainty.”

Kamala Harris, Recalling “Devastating” Day of Dobbs Decision, Urges Women to “Keep Fighting” The former vice president made a surprise visit to a conference of abortion storytellers, whose “voices,” she tells Vanity Fair, “are vital to our nation in the ongoing fight for reproductive freedom....

“For the first time, it became clear that young women today will have fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers,” @kamalaharris.com tells @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social on Dobbs anniversary. “But even in the face of that loss, we keep fighting.”

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Trump and His Advisers Can’t Get The Message Straight on Regime Change in Iran JD Vance, Marco Rubio, and others say strikes on Iran aren’t meant to bring down Iran's leaders. But on Truth Social, their boss appears say otherwise.

JD Vance, Marco Rubio, and others say strikes on Iran aren’t meant to bring down the country’s leaders. But on Truth Social, Trump appears to say otherwise.

A Minor-League Pitcher Is Leading the Charge to Oust Joni Ernst After Ernst dismissed concerns over Medicaid cuts with a glib, “We’re all going to die,” a Democratic Iowa state representative named J.D. Scholten launched a campaign to flip her Senate seat—after he...

Sioux City Dispatch: Eric Lutz catches up with Democratic Senate hopeful @jdscholten.bsky.social in the bullpen

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The Israeli Reporter Getting the Scoop on Trump’s High-Stakes Diplomacy ‘Axios’ journalist Barak Ravid has been breaking news on negotiations with everyone from Hamas to Iran to Ukraine—just ask Zelenskyy—while making his presence felt in Washington. He talks with VF abou...

Get to know @barakravid.bsky.social, one of the go-to reporters on US/Israel/Iran right now via this @nataliekorach.bsky.social profile

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Elon Musk Keeps Stiffing People. She Keeps Suing Him Shannon Liss-Riordan is one of the country’s most renowned labor lawyers. Lately, she’s also developed a specialty in “billionaire justice.”

Elon keeps stiffing people. She keeps suing him.

Really fun interview with Shannon Liss-Riordan, the renowned labor lawyer, on how she's carving out a subspecialty in "billionaire justice." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/s...

The Dodgers Are Thrust Into Trump’s LA Immigration Crackdown While Kike Hernández, for one, expressed anger over his community being “ripped apart,” the team’s silence in recent weeks invited scrutiny. But the appearance Thursday of federal agents, and proteste...

On Thursday, the LA Dodgers issued a statement on social media saying that ICE agents had “requested permission to access the parking lots” at Dodger Stadium, but “were denied entry to the grounds by the organization.”

Elon Musk Keeps Stiffing People. She Keeps Suing Him Shannon Liss-Riordan is one of the country’s most renowned labor lawyers. Lately, she’s also developed a specialty in “billionaire justice.”

Shannon Liss-Riordan is one of the country’s most renowned labor lawyers. Lately, she’s also developed a specialty in “billionaire justice”––and she has her sights set on Elon Musk.

“The Barbarians Are at the Gates”: Curtis Yarvin Has Big Art Plans for the US Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale It’s not a retrospective of Jon McNaughton’s portraits of bloody, triumphant, muscly Trump. It’s somehow crazier.

What is Curtis Yarvin planning for the US Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale? Hint: It’s not a retrospective of Jon McNaughton’s portraits of bloody, triumphant, muscly Trump. It’s somehow crazier.

The Supreme Court That Ended the Fundamental Right to an Abortion Won’t Protect Trans Youth From Discrimination Much like in Dobbs, the conservative supermajority has created a nation where kids with gender dysphoria, and their families, will be treated unequally depending on where they live.

If you're not placing today's ruling against gender-affirming care for trans youth in the context of John Roberts' lifelong campaign to suck the life out of the Fourteenth Amendment, and equality for actual humans more broadly, you're doing it wrong.

Here, for @vanityfair.com, I attempt to do that.

How John Roberts Created the Anti-constitutional Monster Devouring Washington From ushering in Citizens United to granting presidents broad immunity, no one in the capital is more responsible for Donald Trump’s destructive second term than the Supreme Court’s chief justice.

Worth the read.

No Kings for a Day Donald Trump’s long-desired military parade in Washington was overshadowed by millions of Americans speaking out in thousands of towns and cities. Let’s hope Democratic leaders were paying attention.

The 250th Army anniversary military parade-slash-79th birthday celebration was the kind of patriotic (and self-promotional) spectacle that Donald Trump had longed for since early in his first administration.

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How John Roberts Created the Anti-constitutional Monster Devouring Washington From ushering in Citizens United to granting presidents broad immunity, no one in the capital is more responsible for Donald Trump’s destructive second term than the Supreme Court’s chief justice.

A light read from me on this dreary June day:

For the next issue of @vanityfair.com, I have a deeper exploration of all the ways John Roberts helped create the anti-constitutional monster that has been devouring Washington since January.

Necessarily, the story begins with Citizens United.

Jacinda Ardern Is No Longer Campaigning for Office—Now It’s for Humanity In an interview with Vanity Fair, the former New Zealand prime minister discusses stepping back into the public eye with a new memoir and documentary, what it was like to lead with empathy in the face...

Jacinda Ardern Is No Longer Campaigning for Office—Now It’s for Humanity

@katieherchenroeder.bsky.social speaks to the former New Zealand PM

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Terry Moran Is Latest In the TV News–to–Substack Pipeline CNN host turned Substacker Jim Acosta says “the water is warm” as the MeidasTouch guys float a job offer to the former ABC News correspondent. Chris Cillizza, another CNN vet, says there’s “never been...

Terry Moran is latest in the TV news–to–Substack pipeline

@NatalieKorach caught up with @ryanlizza.bsky.social @jimacosta.bsky.social and @chriscillizza.bsky.social about moving from legacy to independent media

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Is Terry Moran Next in the TV News–to–Substack Pipeline? CNN host turned Substacker Jim Acosta says “the water is warm” as the MeidasTouch guys float a job offer to the former ABC News correspondent. Chris Cillizza, another CNN vet, says there’s “never been...

Is Terry Moran Next in the TV News–to–Substack Pipeline?

Jim Acosta says “the water is warm” as @meidastouch.com floats a job offer to the former ABC News correspondent. Chris Cillizza says there’s “never been a better time to be on your own.”

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Get Ready to Die of a Preventable Disease: RFK Jr. Fires Every Vaccine Expert on CDC Panel “This will not restore trust in vaccines, and is not designed to do so.”

RFK Jr.’s got bad news for anyone who likes living.

Donald Trump’s Projecting Panic, Not Power The president’s deployment of troops to LA and parading of tanks in DC look like attempts to appear in control even as his administration spirals.

I wrote about how Trump is using authoritarianism to distract from all of his losses last week

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