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Exclusives
The President’s Lawyers Submitted False Information About a “Law & Order” Plot to the Supreme Court
The episode is cited in Trump’s challenge to E. Jean Carroll’s sexual assault and defamation claim.
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.”
How the “Jewel of Harlem” Became Unlivable
Esplanade Gardens was trumpeted as a way to build wealth for middle-class Black New Yorkers. But its crumbling infrastructure shows how the government gave up on affordable housing.
Features and Profiles
She Escaped Her Abuser. But Not Before He Buried Her in Debt.
This is how coerced debt haunts survivors of domestic abuse.
Why These 2024 Candidates Have Told Their Abortion Stories on the Campaign Trail
In the first presidential election since the fall of Roe, an unofficial cohort of women are sharing their personal experiences. “I don’t have a background in politics,” one downballot candidate told Vanity Fair. “Then what happened to me happened.”
This Is How Criminalizing Abortion Providers Shatters Families
Before Roe, doctors like Gary Raymond’s father went to prison for providing abortions. It’ll happen again.
Day-to-Day Political Reporting
Grok Deepfaked Renée Nicole Good’s Body Into a Bikini
Hours after an ICE agent killed the mother of three, Elon Musk’s chatbot was undressing her.
RFK Jr. Goes After Widely Used Antidepressants, Claiming They Could Be a Threat to Americans
The newly confirmed US Secretary of Health and Human Services has falsely stated that SSRIs are more addictive than heroin and contribute to school shootings.
J.D. Vance, Once a Die-Hard Never Trumper, Completes His MAGAmorphosis
The Ohio Senator and Hillbilly Elegy author took the stage as Donald Trump’s running mate on Wednesday night at the Republican National Convention, where he leaned into his personal biography and struck a populist tone — while side-stepping some issues, like abortion, where he holds extreme views.
Q&As
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 of tragedy, and how leaders can better respond to our global “polycrisis.”
Tina Smith Sounds Off on Trump’s Antiabortion Double-Talk: “I Care About What He Does”
In an interview with Vanity Fair, the Minnesota senator warns of the dangers of “zombie laws,” and explains why the president-elect “dialed back” an unpopular antiabortion crusade: “He’ll say whatever he thinks he needs to say in the moment.”
“They Want Me to Hide or Leave or Disappear”
Republicans invalidated Avery Rowland’s drivers license, along with hundreds of other transgender Kansans. Here’s how she’s fighting back.
