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Will Substack Notes Save Our Posting Souls?
This week, the newsletter platform released the most compelling alternative to Twitter we’ve seen yet. But can Substack—which has had its own content moderation controversies—handle the inevitable…
VANITY FAIR on Biotech
Exclusive: How Elizabeth Holmes’s House of Cards Came Tumbling Down
In a searing investigation into the once lauded biotech start-up Theranos, Nick Bilton discovers that its precocious founder defied medical experts—even her own chief scientist—about the veracity of its now discredited blood-testing technology.
VANITY FAIR on Business
Inside Rupert Murdoch’s Succession Drama
With the $1.6 billion Dominion lawsuit threatening to hobble Fox News, the ink on his divorce to Jerry Hall still wet, and his broken engagement to Ann Lesley Smith even fresher, it’s been a chaotic…
Inside the Merger That Could Have Ended HBO as We Know It
When telecom giant AT&T inherited the most prestigious brand in American TV in 2018, all eyes were on two men: HBO CEO Richard Plepler and his new boss, consummate company man John Stankey. As Felix…
VANITY FAIR on Gig Economy
“What Have We Done?”: Silicon Valley Engineers Fear They've Created a Monster
Gig-economy companies like Uber and Instacart are on the verge of overtaking the traditional economy. And the only people who understand the threat are the ones enabling it.
VANITY FAIR on Media
“I Was Devastated”: The Man Who Created the World Wide Web Has Some Regrets
Tim Berners-Lee has seen his creation debased by everything from fake news to mass surveillance. But he’s got a plan to fix it.
With Her Latest Media Project, Jane Pratt Is Still Telling All
The editor behind Sassy, Jane, and xoJane gives us the scoop on her forthcoming venture, DeedDa, where first-person confessionals will mingle with e-commerce. Pratt’s teaming up with former “Bangle…
VANITY FAIR on Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel’s Dinners Are the Hottest Ticket in L.A. So What’s His Endgame?
Undeniably curious, ecumenical in his taste in people, scourge of Gawker, the tech billionaire has captivated some of his ideological opponents with a series of TED Talk–like dinners. In the Los…
VANITY FAIR on Society
The Montreal Mafia Murders: Blood, Gore, Cannolis, and Hockey Bags
A ‘Fargo’-esque tale of hapless hit men, Mob moles, and two naive pawns who were lured into their web.
Inside the New Right’s Next Frontier: The American West
The dissident fringe is a space where far right and far left can coexist. And the Rockies are where they're headed.
VANITY FAIR on Steve Jobs
“I Have a Secret. My Father Is Steve Jobs”: Lisa Brennan-Jobs Recalls Memories of Her Famous Father
In an excerpt from her memoir, Small Fry, the author reflects on Jobs’s privacy, his temper, and watching a legend grow before her eyes.
“We Could Say Anything to Each Other”: Bob Iger Remembers Steve Jobs
As he exits Apple’s board, the Disney chief reminisces about his relationship with its mercurial founder—and how their radical visions aligned to save two companies.
VANITY FAIR on TV
How Richard Rushfield’s The Ankler Took on Hollywood
Rushfield’s sharp-tongued missives have earned him a bold-faced subscriber list. (“I read it the second I see it pop up,” says Richard Plepler.) But can Rushfield and coconspirator Janice Min scale…
“The Minions Do the Actual Writing”: The Ugly Truth of How Movie Scores Are Made
The streaming revolution is changing the way film composers get paid and exposing the flaws of a system where big names farm their scores out to uncredited “ghost composers.” Now, the artists actually…
VANITY FAIR on Wework
“You Don’t Bring Bad News to the Cult Leader”: Inside the Fall of WeWork
Adam Neumann reimagined the millennial workplace as a capitalist kibbutz, and so dazzled Wall Street that his company was valued at $47 billion. He spent lavishly, and pressed forward even as “the…
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Jason Brassard Spent His Lifetime Collecting the Rarest Video Games. Until the Heist.
The porn trilogy for Nintendos. Atari games from the 1980s. Pristine nostalgia, potentially worth millions, gone in a night.
The Professional Try-Hard Is Dead, But You Still Need to Return to the Office
In the era of the Great Resignation, remote work, and “quiet quitting,” general disillusionment with white-collar striving has gone mainstream. The managerial set has yet to be CC’d.
The Ballad of Razzlekhan and Dutch, Bitcoin’s Bonnie and Clyde
Couples rarely commit crimes together. But Heather “Razzlekhan” Morgan and Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein, whose social media antics disguised an alleged plot to abscond with billions in stolen crypto, are…
McLovin It: An Oral History of ‘Superbad’
15 years later, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Emma Stone, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Bill Hader, and more remember making their seminal teen comedy.
Inside ‘Love Island,’ From the Tragic Suicide Deaths to New Mental Health Protocols
The reboot of Britain’s ‘Love Island’ promised to be the dating show for our self-made, self-aware era. After a series of high-profile suicides, including that of former host Caroline Flack, a darker…
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