The parents of convicted crypto fraudster Sam Bankman Fried have reportedly mounted a behind-the-scenes effort to secure a presidential pardon for their son.

The hits keep coming for Donald Trump’s DOJ, with Thursday’s “not guilty” decision in the case of Sean “Sandwich Guy” Dunn the latest in a series of legal setbacks for the administration. Are the courts finally getting tired of Trump’s baloney?

This week saw a few major wins in the long-running battle between Donald Trump and reality.

Today, Ross Douthat sincerely asked in 'The New York Times': “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” The women of VF found the question to be hysterical, in the funny and shrieking-female senses. Drawing on the hallowed form of publishing workplace instant messages, we are issuing this considered response.

At a live event in White Plains, N.Y., Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson celebrated their newfound freedom, no matter what backlash it stoked. “He’s back and he is bigger than ever,” Kelly said as she introduced Carlson, her guest for the evening.

As an attorney for Sam Bankman-Fried argued with a judge on Tuesday, an email landed in the inboxes of those who subscribed to the disgraced crypto mogul’s Substack. The email was from Bankman-Fried’s mother, Barbara. Attached was a report which made an aggressive case in defense of her son.

“It’s like Vienna in 1914.” Wrote about the memorial for Washington power broker Bob Barnett, where Dr. Fauci backslapped Jesse Watters, Amy Klobuchar comforted nervous voters, and everyone wondered if they'd see a room like this again

At DC power broker Bob Barnett's memorial, politicos including James Carville, Jesse Watters, and Anthony Fauci gathered to eat focaccia sandwiches, swap memories, and place literal bets on the future of the country.

Curtis Sliwa stood little chance of winning. At his Upper West Side election-night party, he celebrated a broader cultural imprint—and a uniquely idiosyncratic city life.

As election results rolled in on Tuesday night, Andrew Cuomo’s supporters packed the Ziegfeld Ballroom and made contingency plans for a Mamdani mayorship.

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Zohran Mamdani’s historic election in the New York City mayoral race sent President Donald Trump and his allies into immediate hysterics. The incoming mayor’s response: “To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.”

VF takes you inside Zohran Mamdani's victory party: Hasan Piker, Cynthia Nixon, moshpit-level excitement, pimple-patch merch, and a Fat Joe banger to ring in the win.

The stock market is largely being propped up by a promise of AI that has yet to deliver—setting up what could be a disastrous bubble. And either the bubble bursts and wipes out a huge sector of the economy or AI replaces human workers across industries.

Republican New York City mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa may be polling last in the race, but on TikTok he's found many fans.

What a long, stranger-than-fiction trip it’s been for Cheryl Hines. Over the last year and a half, her transition from Hollywood liberal to MAGA wife has stunned 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' fans, not to mention some of her friends and entertainment industry colleagues.

Morris Katz is running one campaign on the cusp of victory, and another, beset by scandal.

King Charles strips his brother Andrew of “Prince” title and royal housing. In a statement, the palace said, “His Majesty has today initiated a formal process to remove the Style, Titles and Honours of Prince Andrew.”

The two candidates vying to become New Jersey’s next governor are wearing out the state’s Springsteen-sanctified highways in a tight race that’s being watched across the country as a harbinger of next year’s midterms—and as a referendum on President Donald Trump.

The hot girls of New York are fighting, but not over the Corner Store waitlist or Sandy Liang sample sale. Their new battleground is the city’s mayoral race and two of its candidates: Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo.

'One Battle After Another' is sprinting into awards season. Paul Thomas Anderson’s film earned a record six nominations from the Gotham Awards as its best picture group expanded from five to 10 total nominees.

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Vanity Fair spoke with David Cross about Riyadh, “woke” comedy, and why he keeps a “go-bag” packed just in case things get too dicey during the second Trump administration.

The Trump Administration updated the White House website to tout plans for the new ballroom—and to troll Democrats.

Reclusive billionaire Timothy Mellon is the man behind the $130 donation to pay US troops during the ongoing government shutdown. The Mellon family has long been divided over his support of Donald Trump, James Reginato reports. Read more from his look inside the influential family:

“We can have a decent standard of living, full development, we can have a vibrant democracy,” Bernie Sanders says. “But to do that, you gotta take on the greed.” Read more from Vanity Fair’s interview with the senator:

Paul Ingrassia is just a sign of the growing influence of young edgelords, many of whom are taking their extremist views from the group chat to the halls of power.

The chaos and infighting between Trump acolytes continues, jonathankarl.bsky.social reveals in his upcoming book, ‘Retribution.’ Read the exclusive excerpt:

The Trump administration has edited the official White House website to lambaste Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden’s presidency, with a communications staffer describing the changes as “Easter eggs … for the wannabe historians on social media.”

“This is a guy who puts up an AI image of him in an airplane defecating on American cities—not quite the image of the president of the United States that I was educated to respect,” Bernie Sanders tells Vanity Fair.

The creator of the Netflix hit 'Boots' chats with Vanity Fair about the Pentagon’s harsh response to the show, as well as his critics on the left.

One former Trump official says a “loose screw caucus” threatens the opposite of the left’s woke problem—Groyperism and extremism run amok.

In an exclusive excerpt from 'Retribution: Donald Trump and the Campaign That Changed America,' Jonathan Karl reveals the chaos and infighting from Trump acolytes—including a last-ditch effort by Linda McMahon and Brooke Rollins to derail Susie Wiles’s appointment as chief of staff.

In conversation with VF this morning, Graham Platner swore that he didn’t know the tattoo’s connotations until very recently; when asked whether he would have removed it if he’d been aware previously, he said that he had already covered it up.

An unapologetic generation of young men are not only happy to be living at home, they’re documenting their lives as “hub-sons” on social media.

Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who has accused Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew of abuse (which Andrew has denied), has published a posthumous account of her dark experiences.

In an ever-shifting, always fickle art market, an emerging crop of talent has begun to attract the fresh attention of the collector class—many denizens of which can’t even get off the waiting list for their work. VF presents a guide to the talent your adviser needs to know.

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Ahead of the painting’s National Portrait Gallery unveiling, Nate Freeman gets a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Kate Capshaw’s historic work.

Tom Freston helped birth MTV and reinvent television. In an excerpt from his new memoir, he recalls the Hail Mary "I Want My MTV" marketing spots that saved the network.

Pete Hegseth is alienating key allies amid his war against the press.

Sketch artist Isabelle Brourman spent months inside the New York City federal immigration court documenting scenes where cameras aren’t allowed.

D’Angelo made “Neo Soul” a document of Black life in America. The talented artist and reluctant sex symbol made music that wasn’t just enjoyable—it was ambitious.

Former FBI director James Comey just wouldn’t yield the stage—which is surely one reason he drives Trump so crazy.

Virginia Roberts Giuffre, In Her Own Words: How a 16-Year-Old’s Life Unraveled at Mar-a-Lago This first excerpt of Giuffre’s memoir, exclusive to Vanity Fair, takes place during the summer of 2000, when she was sixteen years old and worked in the spa at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago.

When 'New York Times' financial reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin set out to write about the economic climate that led to the Great Depression, he found a cast of characters that seemed, depending on your point of view, distressingly familiar.

Bari Weiss’s first week on the job offered glimpses into what kind of editor she’ll be at CBS, a lingering question that has been a source of endless speculation inside the network.

As the shutdown drags on, Republicans use their precious time to rage at Bad Bunny for failing to stand for not-the-national-anthem at a Yankees game.

“Not a whole lot has really changed for businesses,” one analyst tells VF, with investors turning to gold and Bitcoin to make money in the melee.

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