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Photo: Roy Rochlin/Getty Images Shortly after noon on Thursday, the staff at Vanity Fair received an email from Condé Nast’s Anna Wintour inviting them to a meeting with editor-in-chief Radhika Jones. To the surprise of almost everyone, including most of the magazine’s senior-most editors, a visibly emotional Wintour announced that Jones would be stepping down […]

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images Experts’ reactions to President Trump’s big new protectionist push have been mostly negative. From economists, judgments have largely ranged from skeptical to horrified. In the political realm, Democrats have been almost uniformly hostile, while Republicans have generally fallen silent or hoped for the best. From the generally Trump-aligned business community,

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images An adrift Democratic Party received a much-needed jolt of energy this week when Democratic senator Cory Booker took to the Senate floor to speak in protest of the Trump administration’s policies, vowing to hold it for as long as he was physically able. Over the course of 25 hours, Booker

Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Time is running out for House-Senate agreement on a congressional budget resolution necessary to “unlock” a future budget-reconciliation bill, which is the only way to enact Donald Trump’s legislative agenda without any input from Democrats. So Senate Republicans, led by Budget Committee chairman Lindsey Graham, have made a fateful decision. They

Photo: Jim Lo Scalzo/Bloomberg/ Getty Images Give Donald Trump some credit: He is following through, absolutely, on a campaign promise. While few Americans imagined that electing Trump again would make Elon Musk a de facto president, tasked with eviscerating the federal bureaucracy, it was no secret that tariffs would be on the menu if Trump

Photo: Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images Buckle up. The fallout is well underway after tariff-obsessed president Donald Trump effectively declared a world trade war during his “Liberation Day” event at the White House — announcing dozens of new tariffs on countries near and far, including some uninhabited islands near Antartica. Now the global markets are

Photo: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images After months of speculation about the status of his largely dormant and seemingly doomed reelection campaign, New York City mayor Eric Adams announced that he is no longer seeking the Democratic nomination and will, instead, run as an independent candidate in the general election. His announcement comes just one day after

Photo: As Ever Well before Meghan Markle’s As Ever products launched on April 2, it was clear that confusion was at the heart of her brand. Shouldn’t her jams and teas have gone on sale when her Netflix show launched a month ago? Why is the show called With Love, Meghan while the home-goods line

Photo: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg/Getty Images It’s time to consider the remote possibility that Donald Trump will attempt to violate the Constitution and seek a third term. In a recent interview with NBC News, he appeared distinctly open to the prospect of running again, and The Wall Street Journal reported his attorney had studied the idea in

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images In 1959, a teenage Kitty Cone was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy. The daughter of a well-off military family, she discovered that her disability often worked against her family’s wealth and political connections. She attended five different high schools, including the posh Holton-Arms School where her cousins had to carry her up