Exclusive: Life Aboard a Nuclear Submarine as the US Responds to Threats Around the Globe
Under cover of darkness, I boarded a Navy vessel at a heavily guarded military base along the Eastern Seaboard. The location and time of departure, as well as…
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Confessions of a Clintonworld Exile
Doug Band worked alongside Bill Clinton every day for nearly two decades, first as a body man and then as one of the primary architects of his lucrative and often-fraught post-presidency. Then came a seismic falling out with accusations of self-dealing and soap-opera-level psychodrama. Now, for the first time since leaving Clinton’s orbit, Band goes on the record about his days in Clintonworld.
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The Abolition Movement
What we talk about when we talk about addressing the savage roots of policing: justice and safety for everyone.
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“A Car Crash Between Nicholas Sparks and Mein Kampf”: In the Tangled World of Far-Right Chatrooms, White Supremacists Are Getting Organized
Writer Talia Lavin spent about a year catfishing white supremacists online. The result: personal trauma, predictions of a “bloody” election season, and the realization that many extremists aren’t holed up in basements—they’re bit players in our daily lives.
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Trump Decides Now Would Be a Great Time to Cut Coronavirus Research Funding
The move comes as scientists have warned the virus is unlikely to be eradicated and instead become seasonal.
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Donald Trump May Be One of the Biggest Losers in America
The “VERY successful businessman” only paid income tax twice between 1985 and 1994—and lost more money than “nearly any other individual American taxpayer.”
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Burt Reynolds Isn’t Broke, but He’s Got a Few Regrets
After an auction of many of his most iconic belongings, the Hollywood legend is back with a memoir about the famous people he worked with and loved. Ned Zeman tracks the Bandit down at his Florida mansion for a discussion about his career, his breakups (including that one with Sally Field), and what really cost him the most.
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Why the Scariest Nuclear Threat May Be Coming from Inside the White House
Donald Trump’s secretary of energy, Rick Perry, once campaigned to abolish the $30 billion agency that he now runs, which oversees everything from our nuclear arsenal to the electrical grid. The department’s budget is now on the chopping block. But does anyone in the White House really understand what the Department of Energy actually does? And what a horrible risk it would be to ignore its extraordinary, life-or-death responsibilities?
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The Agony and the Anxiety of The New York Times
Despite a historic run, unease is now gripping the paper as a large-scale reorganization (physical, personnel, and psychic) looms. “The mood at the paper is poisonous in a way I’ve never seen it in the past 15 years,” as one editor put it.
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Handmaid’s Tale: The Strange History of “Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum”
The key to unlocking this phrase’s origins might be in its final word.
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How Two Trailblazing Psychologists Turned the World of Decision Science Upside Down
After his book Moneyball became a best-seller, Michael Lewis learned that many of the ideas it presented to the general public had actually been introduced decades earlier by a pair of Israeli psychologists: Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky.
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Barack Obama and Doris Kearns Goodwin: The Ultimate Exit Interview
OVAL TEAM The 44th president and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin share a West Wing tête-à-tête. Photograph by Annie Leibovitz. His presidency is winding down. A…
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20 Seasons In, Matt Stone and Trey Parker Reveal the Secret to Keeping South Park Cool
The show’s creators on how the series has evolved, last season’s Trump episode, and what they really think of P.C. culture.
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Brian Wilson, Mike Love, and the Psychodrama Behind the Beach Boys’ Sun-Streaked Legacy
As two of the quintessentially California band’s members face off with dueling memoirs, James Wolcott assesses the conflict beneath the surface of its suntanned image.
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When Irish Eyes Are Crying | Business | Vanity Fair
When I flew to Dublin in early November, the Irish government was busy helping the Irish people come to terms with their loss. It had been two years since a…
