Donald Trump, Silicon Valley, and the Neoliberal Roots of an Unlikely Alliance

When the New York Times financial reporter 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.

“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,” the senator and author of Fight Oligarchy tells Vanity Fair.

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

Vanity Fair spoke with the chef turned climate investor about his old boss’s legacy and the threats facing international institutions, ranging from famine in Gaza to cabinet members RFK Jr. and Linda McMahon.

Meme House LA represents the next level of the coin-trader future—a brave new world that is part Bravolebrity, part Wolf of Wall Street, and all casino.

The news host and producer of Andrew Young: The Dirty Work on embracing the Serenity Prayer, the emergency of American authoritarianism, and Bari Weiss at CBS: “There’s an effort—systemically—to destroy important institutions in the country right now.”

The candid comic still thinks those who performed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival participated in “a very dangerous, upsetting thing,” he tells VF—but he also thinks rape kit jokes and the r-word can be “funny.”

From the war in Gaza to the imagined arrest of Barack Obama, there’s no topic so serious that the president won’t promote a meme about it.

The billionaires who inspired the Eddie Murphy classic have nothing on today’s metal market.

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

“We love America. Donald Trump, stay the hell out of Chicago,” said JB Pritzker from the event, which drew an estimated 100,000 protesters.

In a sobering interview, the respected infectious disease expert expresses concern over our willful deconstruction of parts of our vaccine infrastructure in Donald Trump’s second term—especially because the cause of a future pandemic may already be out there.