2021: VANITY FAIR (357)

JANUARY

The No-Resolutions Guide to New Year’s Wellness

Will Trump’s Deranged Georgia Call Sink the GOP?

Trump’s Collaborators: What’s the Endgame Here?

The Deeply Unsettling Images of Trump’s Capitol Hill Mob

The Nation’s Newspapers Excoriate Trump En Masse

Trump Turns On His Allies

The Royal Exit, One Year Later

An Even More Isolated – and Dangerous? – Trump

Melania Trump and the Danger of Having Just One Friend

Was the Capitol Attack Just the Beginning?

Donald Trump Has Been Impeached – Again

The Stiffing of Rudy Giuliani

E. Jean Carroll on Trump’s Assault of Women – Then of America Itself

Why Extremists Could Plague the Country for Months

Lost Lessons From the Trump Accusers

MLK/FBI Offers a Nuanced Portrait of Martin Luther King Jr.

The Tense Night Before the Presidential Inauguration

Joe Biden Is President

After Wrecking the Country, Javanka Plot Vacation Plans

Biden’s “Wartime Effort” for COVID-19 Vaccines

Is There an End to the Cult of Trump?

The Rise and Fall of the Trump-Epstein Bromance

Inside the Firing of Lauren Wolfe

From White House to Fox News Lies

The WaPo Rumor Mill Kicks Into Overdrive

The GameStop Trail of Destruction

Inside Biden’s Plan to Push Through Vaccine Chaos

What Led to Ghislaine Maxwell’s Falling-Out With Epstein?

How Biden Plans to Push Through COVID Vaccine Chaos

FEBRUARY

Can Biden’s No-Drama Strategy Work?

The Extremist Allure for People of Color

The Best and Worst of Sundance 2021

Biden’s Major Mask Push

How the COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Was Hobbled

Instagram’s Accidental Gossip Queen

Why Impeaching Trump (Still Matters)

How The Weeknd Broke Super Bowl Traditions

Biden Won’t Touch Impeachment

Biden’s COVID Timeline Woes

Sympathy for Britney, Sympathy for Ourselves

What the Mainstream Media Got Wrong About Britney Spears

Meghan Markle Wins Victory in Her Tabloid Lawsuit

The 11 Most Underrated Romantic Comedies

What the Mainstream Media Got Wrong About Britney Spears

Will the Democrats’ Focus on Marjorie Taylor Greene Backfire?

Bracing for a Hedge Fund Squeeze in Tribune Newsrooms

Why Briahna Joy Gray Wants to Upend Democrats’ Strategy

Can Beto Save Texas From Ted Cruz?

The Legal Walls Close In on Trump

Beto Wants to Save Texas From Ted Cruz

The Trump Family’s Terrible Twitter Succession

The 27th Annual Hollywood Issue

Mike Pence Is Still “Personal Friends” With Mob Inciter

Inside the Conways’ Very Complicated Marriage

In New York’s Mayoral Brawl, Maya Wiley Sees a Path to Victory

Inside Team Biden’s Freakout Over Trump Jokes

Golden Globe Predictions: Who Will Win? 

MARCH

The Republican Fundraising Civil War Has Begun

Republicans Take a Sledgehammer to Voting Rights

Andrew Cuomo’s Unknown Political Future

Why Kensington Palace Just Can’t Let Go of Meghan Markle

Review: WandaVision’s Frustrating Finale

Kelly Marie Tran’s Radical Raya

Will the War Against Meghan Markle Ever End?

Lindsey Graham’s Still Sticking With Trump

The Palace Responds

The Great COVID Social Media Scolding

The Fall of Armie Hammer

Inside the College-Admission Scandal Doc

The Fall of Armie Hammer

Andrew Cuomo’s Biographer on the Governor’s Brutish History

Albany’s New Class

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: A Complete Beginner’s Guide

The Atlanta Shootings and Our National Double Standard

The Private Jet of Rich Trumpers Wanted to “Stop the Steal”

Why NFT’s Are Now a Front in the Culture Wars

Exposing the Trump White House’s “Shameless” Shot Chasers

A British Constitution Expert on the Royals’ “Gilded Cage”

Ted Lieu on What Trump’s Racist Rhetoric Has Done

What’s Biden’s Move After Boulder?

Inside the Confounding Search for WaPo’s Next Editor

Why Tina Turner Is Still Haunted by Her Abuser

Remembering Larry McMurtry

Shiva Baby’s Jewish Angst

Cracking the Case of London’s Rare-Book Thieves

Watching the George Floyd Murder Trial Begin

Biden’s Plan to Fix the Country by Taxing the Rich

Can Democrats Stop Democracy From Crumbling?

APRIL

The Ballad of the OnlyFans Model and Her Multimillionaire Boyfriend

Republicans’ Plan to Sink Biden’s Infrastructure Bill

J.D. Salinger, Woody Allen, and the Parallels of Abuse

Vaccinated While Black

Why the Oscars Are More Uncertain Than Ever

“We Are Hoarding”

Did Prince Harry Put “Fame Over Family”?

Why Justice League’s Screenwriter Is Mad as Hell

Why Comedy Pioneer Anne Beatts Never Fit In

Prince Philp’s Life in Pictures

Will Your Friendships Survive the End of COVID?

Could Prince Philip’s Funeral Heal the Royal Family Rift?

A Goldman Intern’s Abuse Suit Moves Forward

The GOP Comes for Baseball

A Balck Lives Matter Meltdown at Dalton

Vanity Fair’s Cocktail Hour, Live! Act Three, Recapped

The Doomed Paradise of Myrtle Beach

How I Sniffed Out the Stench of Madoff’s Success

Could Prince Harry Extend His U.K Visit?

Derek Chauvin Found Guilty on All Charges

How Inclusive Could the Oscar Winners List Be?

Who Will Win at the Oscars?

The Making of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s Final Scene

The Clubhouse Party Is Over

The 2021 Oscars Red Carpet: See All the Looks

Hattie McDaniel’s Epic Double Life

After Derek Chauvin’s Conviction, What Comes Next?

Capitol Officer Blasts Trump for Rewriting History

Ground Zero for the Cancel Culture Wars

The Bravery of Elliot Page’s Interview

MAY

Bethenny Frankel Won’t Be Muzzled

The Start of the Royal Media Obsession

Is a Liz Cheney Purge Upon Us?

The Sacklers and Me

Caitlyn Jenner’s Political Gift to Gavin Newsom

Meet America’s Secret Rescue Force

Zooming In on the Relatable Narcissism of YouTubers

The Sacklers Launched OxyContin

They Were Sons

Can Mark Zuckerberg Pull Off His Next Balancing Act?

Inside the Collapse of the Golden Globes

The Gaetz Scandal Gets Worse

How Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Became an Anti-vaxxer Icon

The Woman in the Window Isn’t Worth Staying Home For

Inside the Underdog Launch of MTV

The Democratic Civil War Never Materialized

The Only Thing That Makes Patti Harrison Cringe

Giuliani: The Next Generation

Kevin McCarthy vs. the January 6 Investigation

Larry Culp Puts GE in the Hot Seat

A New Era of Streaming Chaos

Progressive Pressure Mounts on Biden

A First Look at Stephen King’s Chapelwaite

The Making of a Future Cult Classic

Rethinking That Princess Diana Interview

The AP’s Social Media Maelstrom

Facebook Enters the COVID Theory Fugue

Black Culinary Traditions in the Spotlight

An Oral History of A Different World

The Art Thieves and the Terrorists

How the AP Entered the Social Media Maelstrom

JUNE

Greg Abbott’s Threat to Lawmakers

Trump’s Hush Money Undertakers Pay Up

Review: Julianne Moore Saves Lisey’s story

All Light, Everywhere Won’t Make a Story Out of Police Violence

Meet the Man Shaping Marvel’s Future

Sex Scenes in the Time of COVID-19

Bill and Melinda Gates’s Epic Divorce Saga

Armie Hammer Seeks Treatment

How Eric Adams’s Police Record Is Fueling His Rise

The Post-Trump News Cycle Is Stranger Than Fiction

Prince William and Kate Make Royal History

Vaccinated Wedding Season Chaos

The Summer of Sci-Fi Media Weirdness

Ron Johnson, COVID Quack

Does the Biden Agenda Stand a Chance?

Putin, Post-Summit: “There Is No Happiness in Life”

The Final Days of Andrew Yang’s Campaign

The Right’s Critical Race Theory Meltdown

Juneteenth and the Road Toward Reckoning

The Beatles: Get Back – A Revelatory New Movie

Eric Adams on Weed and the Housing Sleuth Haters

Will NYC’s Mayoral Election End in a Cliff-Hanger?

The Vaccine Skeptics Hobbling Biden on COVID

Ghislaine Maxwell’s Battle With the Bureau of Prisons

The Making of Josh Ruben’s Werewolves Within

Are These Rulings Stephen Breyer’s Parting Shots?

When Exactly Did Prince Charles Cut Off Harry and Meghan?

Trump’s Weekend Rally: A Dark Warning

How Dua Lipa Conquered International Pop

The Real-Life Stripper Story Behind Zola

JULY

Can Paramount+ Survive the Streaming Wars?

Will HBO Max Make a Big Emmys Splash?

The Secret History of Gavin McInnes

How Dua Lipa Shut Down the Trolls and Conquered Pop

Tavi Gevinson Shows No Signs of Slowing Down

Gossip Girl 2021: Why So Serious?

Vladimir Putin Tests Biden

How Yulia Navalnaya Became Russia’s Real First Lady

Our 2021 Emmy Nomination Predictions

Tony Hale: No One Does Funny-Strange Better

Are We in a Sketch-Comedy Renaissance?

Is This the Year Netflix Finally Conquers the Emmys?

The 2021 Emmy Nominations Are Here

How Loki Pulled Off Its Finale

Lizzie Borden Gets her Due

Cannes Still Matters, Despite Everything

Biden vs. Right-Wing Misinformation

Lizzie Borden Gets the Last Laugh

Confirmed: Prince Harry’s Memoir Is on the Way

The Visionary Behind WandaVision

Tearing Up the “Immigrant Mom” Trope

The Royal Rift That Changed History

Joe Manchin Ghosts West Virginia Union Workers

The Ballad Of Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee

The Republican Reckoning on COVID vaccines

What Will It Take To Get TV to Stop Censoring Titles?

Biden vs. the Delta Variant

Miami’s Mayor Is Charting a Course for a Post-Trump GOP

The “Ugly Truth” About Facebook

The Kennedy-esque Figure Mapping a New GOP

AUGUST

The Dark Righteousness of the January 6 Riot

How Uzo Aduba Conquered Her Greatest Challenge

From Puff Daddy to Diddy to Love

Reimagining Classic Y2K Movies

How Michael Douglas Became a Braver Actor

The Texas-Florida COVID Spiral

The Doris Duke Cold Case Reopens

The Private-Jet Travel Boom Is Not Going Anywhere

Revisiting the “Ground Zero Mosque” Meltdown

Barry Jenkins Concludes His Trilogy

Will Republicans Get Banned for COVID Conspiracies?

A Media-Elite Town

The Boys: 2020’s Most Urgently Political Show

Gwen Carr Is a Force to Be Reckoned With

What’s Next for Donatella Versace?

A Desperate Hour in Afghanistan

COVID, Catharsis, and Ali Wong

Inside Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Radical Directorial Debut

Inside Below Deck’s Climb to Emmy Contender

Amanda Peet’s Academic Game of Thrones

Barbara Lee on the Futility of “Forever Wars”

What’s the Post-COVID Future for Art Fairs?

The GOP Is Already Weaponizing Afghanistan

Cuomo’s Political Career Ends (Maybe) With a Whimper

Candyman Comes for the Privileged

An Exclusive Preview of Joe Wright’s Cyrano

Biden’s Afghanistan Nightmare Worsens

A Fatal Accident Upends South Dakota Politics

OnlyFans and the Myth of Owning Your Hustle

The Diplomatic Turf Wars That Doomed Afghanistan

Is a Royal Move in the Works?

SEPTEMBER

The Impact of Texas’s Near-Total Abortion Ban

Death at the Ballet

A Puzzling Girlboss Cinderella

How Turf Wars Mucked Up the Afghanistan Exit

A Ballet Company Built on Guns, God, and Trump

Who Will Inherit Trump’s MAGA Base?

How Vicky Krieps Found Her Return

The Sex Education of Jemima Kirke

R. Kelly’s Escalating Impunity

Inside the Mind of Ted Lasso’s Psychologist

Jeffrey Wright on The French Dispatch

Mr. Weber’s Confession

The Most On-Theme Met Gala Looks

the Lessons of Gavin Newsom’s Big Win

The Only NFT Explainer You Really Need

Nicholas Kristof’s Gubernatorial Ambitions

The Trials of Diet Prada

What Anthony Bourdain Left Behind

How to Fix the Emmys

New Allegations Against Leon Black

R. Kelly’s Moment of Reckoning

Murder in Sonora: A Father’s Desperate Quest

Inside the New York Times’ Trust Project

Murder in Sonora: A Father’s Quest for Cartel Justice

Warner Media’s Ann Sarnoff Steers Through a Storm

R. Kelly Is Found Guilty

Steven Van Zandt on making The Sopranos

Cori Bush Is Ready to Talk About Her Abortion

An Oral History of Zoolander

OCTOBER

It’s Now or Never for Nancy Pelosi’s Dealmaking Powers

The Battle Behind Dallas Buyers Club

The Strike That Could Cripple Hollywood

Facebook Exec: We’re Not Like Big Tobacco

The Case for the Best Bond

Facebook’s Days of Skating by May Be Over

Is the Pandemic-Fueled Facebook Reckoning Finally Here?

A True-Crime Story You’ve Never Heard Of

What “Bad Art Friend” Says About Facebook

How Marlon Brando Became the Godfather

Ivanka and the World Bank

Steve Scalice and the GOP’s Dangerous Path

The Democrat Begging Biden to Get It Together

The Oscar Race Might Already Have a Diversity Problem

The Trump Immigration Policy That Won’t Die

Katie Porter Has the Floor

Matthew Dowd Is Trying to Turn Texas Blue

Katie Hill’s Next Chapter

A New Lens

The Voting Rights Emergency

The Metaverse Is About to Change Everything

Mike Pence Is Living His Best Life

NIH Admits Funding Risky Virus Research in Wuhan

Obama’s Plea to Virginia Voters

Remembering Halyna Hutchins

The Trump Allies Are Singing

What’s the Real Crime on Impeachment?

The Art World’s Most Wanted Man

The NRA’s Miscast Leader

Joe Biden’s Compromise Bill

NOVEMBER

Inside Kathryn Hunter’s Tragedy of Macbeth Transformation

The Supreme Court Looks at Texas

What Glenn Younkin’s Win Means

Why Democrats Need to Shred the Playbook

Why Hackers Love Cracking the Art World

What’s Next for Nikole Hannah-Jones?

Revenge of the Suburban Moms

Biden’s Long-Awaited Victory Lap

The Audition That Changed Will Smith’s Life

The World According to John Wilson

Inside Trump’s Disastrous Tulsa Rally

A Win, Finally, for Paul Thomas Anderson?

Ozy Is Being Investigate by the Feds

How Do South Koreans Feel About Squid Game?

The Bannon Indictment Backlash

The Rare Remake That Works

The People v. Janet Jackson

A Top Kamala Harris Aide Heads for the Exit

Zaha Hadid’s Dreams Rise in the Desert

A Requiem for “Unapologetic Messiness”

New Jersey Democrats’ 2022 Hellscape

“I Didn’t Have a Life. I Thought I Should Go Get One”

A Private-Jet Battle in East Hampton

The Right’s Ongoing Deification of Kyle Rittenhouse

A Private-Jet Battle in East Hampton

Andy Jassy Enters the Ring

Jennifer Lawrence on Love, Fame, and Boundaries

“First They Came for My P.J.s, and I Said Nothing”

Could Trump Take the 2024 Election?

It’s Here: Billie Eilish, Year Five

DECEMBER

Maxwell Trial: The First Accuser Speaks

30 Rock’s Shaky Foundation

“Our Entire Strategy Is on Hold”

The Second Coming of Guru Jagat

The Chris Cuomo Drama Isn’t Over

The GOP’s Dumbest COVID Claims Yet

Marc Short Flips for the Jan. 6 Committee

Are the Balkans Headed for Another Civil War?

Joe Biden’s Vexing Press Strategy

Ghislaine Maxwell’s Prosecutors Rest Their Case

What Ghislaine Maxwell’s Trial Has Revealed

The 2021 Black List

Gavin Newsom’s One Strange Trick

A Black-and-White Ode to Childhood

What We Lost When Vaping Got Political

Ghislaine Maxwell’s Defense Rests Its Case

Prince Andrew and the Pedophile

The Tech Revolution Reaches Warp Speed

The Best Performances of 2021

Ghislaine Maxwell Awaits Her Fate

Emily in Paris Gets a Chic Fashion Upgrade

The Rapid-Test Plan That Wasn’t

The Most Read Vanity Fair Stories of 2021

How the Earliest COVID Coverage Shaped Our World

In Memoriam: Those We Lost in 2021

How Will Bill de Blasio Be Remembered?

Reading the Maxwell Verdict

V.F.’s Most Read Stories of 2021

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