
NEWS
Exclusive: Donald Trump to Add His Signature to US Currency, a First For a Sitting President
As Vanity Fair can exclusively report, Trump’s Treasury Department plans to add his signature to all denominations of US dollar bills.
By Aidan McLaughlin
Obituary
Robert Mueller, Former FBI Head And Donald Trump Investigator, Dead At 81
Robert Mueller, the head of the FBI for 12 years and leader of an inconclusive criminal investigation into President Donald Trump's alleged ties to Russia, died on Friday at age 81.
By Eve Batey

OSCAR PARTY 2026
Hasan Piker Came to Our Party and Says He “Got Frame Mogged by Real Celebrities”
So Vanity Fair did the natural thing, and called him up to talk about it.
By Abigail Sylvor Greenberg

Politics
The Humiliation of Tulsi Gabbard
Trump’s director of national intelligence has spent her career arguing against a war with Iran. Now, she’s the public face for one, and her former allies are furious.
By Aidan McLaughlin

ESPIONAGE
Spylandia: How a Stretch of Florida Real Estate Has Become a Covert Corridor for Chinese and Russian Spies
The so-called Space Coast, with its rocket launches and military tech, is now an unassuming setting for espionage.
By Adam CiralskyPhotography by Brian Finke

POLITICS
“You’ll Answer in Hell”: The Families of Some ICE Agents Are Speaking Out
Amid growing reports of brutal immigration-enforcement tactics, the relatives of three ICE agents tell Vanity Fair how their relationships have fractured. In some cases, they’re cutting ties.
By Olivia Krupp

FOUNDING DADDY
Glenn Beck’s AI George Washington Is a Right Wing Sexual Fantasy
A presidential historian factchecks the historically inaccurate digital president, who has been artificially enhanced with modern-day aesthetics and ideas.
By Alexis Coe

Politics
Trump Will Take Control of the Midterms–If This Florida Lawyer Gets His Way
“Foreign interests are putting their thumb on the scale of our elections,” Peter Ticktin claims. Senator Mark Warner is answering with a “prebunking” campaign.
By Chris Smith

OSCARS 2026
Javier Bardem Condemns ‘Trump and Netanyahu’ for ‘Another Illegal War’ at a Very Political Oscars
Host Conan O'Brien was subtle with his comments, Jimmy Kimmel less so, and the nominated films themselves carried a political charge.
By Aidan McLaughlin

PARTY ANIMALS
MAGA Hollywood: Does a Trump Fan Lurk Behind Every Palm Tree?
Tinseltown has always had its pockets of conservatism, from Bush-era Gary Sinise and the Friends of Abe to Jon Voight and Rob Schneider in the Trumpian present. And then there's Spencer Pratt, The Hills star who thinks Trump's war in Iran could help his long-shot quest to be mayor of LA.
By Aidan McLaughlin

The Matrix
Louis Theroux’s Unnervingly Personal Journey Through the Manosphere
The documentarian has long studied the sordid and subcultural. In his latest effort, Netflix’s Inside the Manosphere, he takes an up-close look at the human purveyors of algorithmic chaos.
By Dan Adler

Streaming Wars
James Fishback Has Seized the Gen Z Right. Now He Thinks He Can Win Florida.
“We’ve broken into the mainstream,” the long-shot Republican candidate for governor tells Vanity Fair, as influencers from Andrew Tate to Nick Fuentes line up behind him.
By Dan AdlerPhotography by Zack Wittman

SECRET AGENT
Marco Rubio’s Florida Bestie Is an Accused ‘Foreign Agent’ Set to Go on Trial— With Rubio On the Witness List
David Rivera and Rubio bought a house in Tallahassee when they were coming up together in Florida politics. But he’s been a headache for the secretary of state ever since, and now he could be one for the Trump White House, too.
By Noah Shachtman

Politics
Inside War-a-Lago, Trump’s Palm Beach Members Club Turned Gilded Situation Room
At Trump’s South Florida palace, the commander in chief launches wars in between waltzes. Members, socialites, and White House officials take Vanity Fair inside the makeshift Situation Room at Mar-a-Lago.
By Aidan McLaughlin

POLITICS
In His Memoir, Gavin Newsom Sets Out to Reconcile “the Split Personality” of His Life Spent Growing Up Alongside the Gettys
“I never considered…that my deeper entry into the Getty world would rob me of my own hard-earned story,” the California governor writes in Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery.
By James Reginato

Discourse
She Got Fired for Reposting Charlie Kirk Criticism. Months Later, She’s Still Suffering
Public mourning for the slain founder of Turning Point USA ended quickly, but for those who were fired in the wake of his death, the damage is lasting. Lauren Stokes speaks to Vanity Fair about her lawsuit against the University of Mississippi.
By Erin Vanderhoof
War in Iran
“He Could Be Impeached.” Donald Trump’s Base Revolts Over War With Iran
MAGA leaders are expressing dismay and anger at the president, who campaigned on isolationism and "no new wars"
By Aidan McLaughlin
War in Iran
Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Killed In US/Israel Attack
Iranian state media has confirmed that the joint US and Israeli attack, which targeted Iran's top leaders in an effort to eradicate its government, has killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran since 1989.
By Eve Batey
Peace in our time
15 Months Ago, Donald Trump Promised “I’m Not Going to Start Wars, I’m Going to Stop Wars"
The White House issued a press release declaring Donald Trump the “President of Peace." Four days later, he announced a major combat operation in Iran, referring to it as “war.”
By Eve Batey

EPSTEIN FILES
The Photographer Who Helped Launch Melania Trump’s Modeling Career Is a Recurring Character in the Epstein Files
Melania Trump and Antoine Verglas were fixtures of the 1990s fashion circuit—a rarefied ecosystem that Jeffrey Epstein would continue to penetrate long after his conviction.
By Tara Palmeri

Politics
Mike Huckabee, Trump’s Ambassador to Israel, Defends His “Kind Of Strange” Interview With Tucker Carlson
In a wide-ranging interview with Vanity Fair, the US ambassador to Israel explained his controversial comments to Tucker Carlson and addressed a shift in public opinion against Israel over its bloody war in Gaza.
By Aidan McLaughlin