2022: VANITY FAIR (304)

JANUARY

Chuck Schumer Seizes On January 6

Why Michael Greyeyes Was “Low-Key Terrified” to Do Something Brand New

A Rare Royal Family Photo

A TV Star’s Battle With Postpartum Psychosis

Eve Babitz Bared It All

Caitriona Balfe’s Celtic Conquest

The Life and Death of a Capitol Rioter

The Brazen Chaos of the Twitter Golden Globes

Joe Biden’s Message to Voting Rights Holdouts

Mike Pence Is Going Rogue in 2024

Everything’s Coming Up Priyanka

The Royal Family in Damage Control

Dave Chappelle and Black Patriarchy

Priyanka Chopra Jonas on the Future

Awards Season in Black and White

What to Know About the State of COVID

Andre Leon Talley Has Died at 73

Bringing Back Bond in Style

Joe Biden’s Tough Line

Anatomy of a Supporting-Actress Race

The Man Who Shaped TV and I Love Lucy

Inside Jerry Falwell Jr.’s Unlikely Rise and Precipitous Fall

Why Biden Can’t Escape Inflation Questions

Yet Another Classroom Culture War

Aunjanue Ellis on Why Recognition Matters

The Personal Recommendation’s Growing Currency

Prince Andrew’s Misguided Bid to Explain Away Epstein

Aunjanue Ellis on Why Recognition Matters

Trump Wants to Pardon Insurrectionists in 2024

FEBRUARY

WaPo Poaches Taylor Lorenz

Trump Demands Mike Pence Be Investigated

Conversations With Friends: Inside The intense TV Adaptation

Rudy Giuliani Can’t Pick a Narrative

Benedict Cumberbatch Asks the Tough Questions

APRIL

CBS’s Robert Costa on Donald Trump’s January 6 Gap

Leaked Documents Shed Light on the Lab-Leak Question

Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner Has Had Quite the Year

Biden Calls Putin a “War Criminal”

Remember When Movies Were Sexy?

Explaining the War in Ukraine to Europe’s Skeptics

The Jan. 6 Clock Is Ticking

Charlie Crist on DeSantis, Disney, and the Future of Florida

Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger’s “Profound Love”

Everything Everywhere All at Once Is All That and More

A “Remarkable” Moment in American Celebrity

China Will “Eclipse” Today’s Russia Crisis

Trump Team Still Trying to Overturn the Election

Nashville’s New Wave

Alexander Skarsgard’s Whole Viking Thing

Frank O-Hara’s Fatal Finale

A Bad Vegan Figure’s Republican Reinvention

The Most Expensive Artwork Ever?

How Camilla Became a Queen (Consort) for the Modern Era

Did Jared Kushner’s Father Set Up Former N.J. Governor Jim McGreevey?

Firing Back Against a GOp Smear

Behind the Scenes of CNN+’s Stunning Fall

The Billionaire Club’s Run on Cobalt

The Streaming Dream Is Over

Billionaire Bonanza at the Venice Biennale

It’s Elon Musk’s Timeline Now

Elon Musk’s Worst Hits

Bernie Sanders Wants Dems to Go Big on Unions

The Great Race to Buy Chelsea F.C.

Mikaela Shiffrin Embraces the Uncertainty

MAY

“The Nation’s Most Distinguished Superspreader Event”

The True Lies of Elisabeth Finch, Part 1

SCOTUS Is Ready to Burn It All Down

Samuel Alito’s Antiabortion Inspiration

“I Struggle to Have the Words”

“No One Did Anything”

Amber Heard on the Stand

The Republicans Who Won’t Stop at Overturning Roe

Rebecca Traister on the Death of Roe v. Wade

What Meghan Markle Revealed About Racism and the Royals

Trump Claims He’s Not Ignoring Subpoenas

GOP Lawmaker Likens Human Women to Sea Turtles

Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover Is on Ice

“The Days of the Blank Check Are Over”

Who Bought Andy Warhol’s $195 Million Marilyn?

The Ex-Trump Aide Fighting to Be America’s Household Conservative

Star Wars: The Rebellion Will Be Televised

A Battered BuzzFeed News Forges On

Bullets and Blindfolds in a Ukrainian City Under Siege

Team Biden Tries to Turn the Page on COVID

Bullets and Blindfolds in a Ukrainian City Under Siege

Dark Money Democrats Put on Notice

Substack’s Founders Dive Headfirst Into the Culture Wars

Kushner’s Comically Corrupt Saudi Check

America’s Elected Officials Don’t Have an Answer

Trump and Co. Still Attending Texas NRA Event

Joe Manchin: “This Time Feels Different”

Gabby Giffords on Finding Hope, and Demanding Change, After Uvalde

Elected Officials Don’t Have an Answer for Gun Violence

Renovation Frenzy Has Gripped the Hamptons

Monica Lewinsky’s Verdict on the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard Trial: We Are All Guilty

JUNE

Will SCOTUS Clerks Lawyer Up?

The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee: Live Updates

What Bowen Yang Had to Expose

Chaos in John Roberts’s Court

Sex, Fame, and Tragedy on Love Island

Why Do Democrats Suck at Messaging?

The L.A. Mayor’s Race Is Tearing Hollywood Apart

Matthew McConaughey’s Impassioned Gun-Reform Speech

The Race to Recover Qaddafi’s Ill-Gotten Billions

Donald Trump’s Predictable Tantrum

Lily Tomlin Answers the Proust Questionnaire

Inside The Washington Post’s Social Media Meltdown

A Test of Trump’s Power in Arizona

The Origins of the Prince Andrew Scandal

Joe Kahn Takes Charge

Will the Jan. 6 Committee Set Its Sights on the Supreme Court?

“Her Life Has Been Ruined”

“You Know What I Say About Men Who F— Asian Women?”

How Drag Became Big Business

Intervention Needs an Intervention

Juliette Binoche Always Fights for the Truth

The Fight to Make Abortion Rights Constitutional Law

He Flipped on a Notorious Mobster – His Father

The Supreme Court Has Struck Down Roe v. Wade

How the Three Liberal Justices Dissented on Roe

The Abortion Provider At the Center of Dobbs Is Not Backing Down

Are Democrats Sleeping on the New York Governor’s Race?

Dakota Johnson on Family, Sexual Agency – And the “Psychotic” Making of Fifty Shades of Grey

Val Demmings Is on a Mission

The Supreme Court Just Supercharged Climate Change

JULY

The Supreme Court Has Declared War on Governing

An End to the Separation Between Church and State?

Gabby Petito’s Life With – And Death By – Brian Laundrie

Behold Viola Davis as The Woman King

Trump: 2024 Run Beats Prison

Boris Johnson Is Out

Shinzo Abe Assassination Shocks World Leaders

A Guide to the Muskian Offspring

The Marvel Machine Breaks Down in Thor: Love and Thunder

Patina Miller’s “Super Magical” Broadway Return

The GOP’s Cultish Devotion to Trump

January 6 Committee’s Message: Trump Needs to Be Held Accountable

Elon Musk Versus Twitter: Everybody Loses

How Elon Musk Became the Internet’s New Main Character

Trump Should Never Hold Office Again: A Pocket Guide

“It’s Been a Devastating Several Weeks”

Will Biden Declare a Climate Emergency?

Audrey Gelman on Life After the Wing

Your First Look at The Good Nurse

The Jan. 6 Hearing Utterly Embarrassed Trump and Co.

Audrey Gelman on Life After the Wing

How Doctors Are Navigating a Post-Roe World

“He Paid No Price for His Lies”

A Risky Strategy Elevating MAGA Republicans

The Antiabortion Movement Is No Longer Hiding Its Extremism

Stephanie Grisham Sounds the Alarm on Trump 2024

The Antiabortion Movement Is No Longer Hiding Its Extremism

The DOJ Is Investigating Trump

AUGUST

How Sally Buzbee Is Putting Her Stamp on WaPo

An Exclusive Look at Creem’s First Rebooted Cover

GOP Governors Have Successfully Created a Migrant Crisis in Washington

Why Are HBO Max Original Movies Disappearing?

Jennette McCurdy’s Shocking Final Days at Nickelodeon

A Glimmer of Hope for Dems?

Rachel Maddow Gives Her First Interview and Revs Up for Her Next Act

Lewis Hamilton on Racism, His Future, and the Shocker That Cost Him a Championship

How Axios Will Shake Out After $525 Million Sale to Cox

How Chef Mario Carbone Built the Most Celebrity-Studded Restaurant on Earth

One Year Later, Andrew Cuomo Still Regrets Resigning

“The Next Phase of The Information”

Returning to Afghanistan – One Year After the Fall of Kabul

Fox News Isn’t Ready to Dump Trump, Even If the Murdochs Are

Joan Didion and Eve Babitz’s Unlikely, Uneasy Friendship

How Unforced Errors Hobbled America’s Monkeypox Response

An Oral History of Superbad

The Ballad of Bitcoin’s Bonnie and Clyde

House of the Dragon Just Isn’t Game of Thrones

The Ballad of Bitcoin’s Bonnie and Clyde

The Many Ways Trump Is Legally Screwed: A Guide

Meet the Power Agent Behind Rachel Maddow’s Replacement

Liz Cheney Is Winning the War

Holding Russia to Account for War Crimes in Ukraine

Post-Roe, the Supreme Court Is on a Collision Course With Democracy

DHS Board Folds Under a Torrent of Threats and Online Abuse

SCOTUS Is on a Collision Course With Democracy

John Boyega Makes His Own Trilogies Now

“Deposing Trump Is Looking for the Icing on the Cake”

Ron Johnson’s Road to Reelection Is Getting Bumpy

Venice and Telluride Film Festivals: Updates, Reviews & More

SEPTEMBER

Inside Brendan Fraser’s Transformation: “I Wanted to Disappear”

Headaches Are Piling Up for Mitch McConnell

Pat Ryan Says Dems Win by Getting “Real”

The Jennifer Kushner Book-Blitz Playbook

The Fight for the Future of Abortion in Michigan

Inside Tilda Swinton’s Intense Dual Role in The Eternal Daughter

Photographer Lynsey Addario Reflects on Covering Wars and Global Crises

Remembering the Life and Legacy of Queen Elizabeth II

Inside Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles’s Complicated Relationship

Cover Story: Olivia Wilde Isn’t Worried

The Law Firm That Hitched the GOP Establishment to Trump

At Home With LeBron James and His Family

Is TikTok Turning Fashion Week Into Pure Chaos?

Will New Hampshire Send an Election Denier to the Senate?

Abortion-Rights Fight Is Taking Center Stage in Pennsylvania

Samuel L. Jackson and John David Washington Take the Stage

Ezra Miller’s “Messiah” Delusions: Inside The Flash Star’s Dark Spiral

The Difficult Road Ahead for Raphael Warnock

How the Royals Plan to Protect the Monarchy

The Perks of Being a Wallflower Comes of Age

Janelle Monae Wants You to Free Yourself

The Art World’s Original Pacemaker Is Starting Over

Our Ever-Increasing Participation in Celebrity Drama

CNN’s Long-Awaited Murdoch Saga Gets Its Network Debut

CNN Insists January 6 Coverage Won’t Be Sidelined

The Making and Remaking (and Remaking) af a MAGA Heir

Billy Eichner Subverts the Hollywood Status Quo

OCTOBER

Obama’s Most Famous Speech Almost Didn’t Happen

Noah Shachtman’s Raucous Reinvention of Rolling Stone

Obama’s Most Famous Speech Almost Didn’t Happen

Is IVF the GOP’s Next Target?

Love on The Big Bang Theory Set

“I Think Lacklan’s Trying To Peter Thiel Crikey”

Herschel Walker’s Secret Abortion Support

Almost Famous Reboots – On Broadway

Inside the Met’s Major Move Into Contemporary Art

One Ukrainian Family’s Harrowing Wartime Saga

Revisiting Prince Andrew’s Nosedive From Grace

Inside the Met’s Major Move Into Contemporary Art

Cover Story: Lizzo Is Here to Talk About All of It

The Faces of the Fight for Abortion Rights

A Look at the Influential Female Artists of Our Time

Frieze Honcho Ari Emanuel Sizes Up the Competition

The Faces of the Fight for Abortion Rights

A Look at the Influential Female Artists of Our Time

The Taliban Have Essentially Eliminated Women From Public Life

Republicans Embarrassed Themselves in Senate Debate

Inside Anthony Ritossa’s Wild Web of Lies

“The Path to the House Majority Goes Through California”

Meet Hollywood’s Favorite Pickleball Coach

The Wild True Story of The Good Nurse

How the First Abortion Speak-Out Revolutionized Activism

Liz Cheney Warns “the Party Will Shatter”

Inside Selena Gomez’s Most Personal Project Yet

A Pioneering Gamer Opens Up About Industry Sexism

Ben Smith Talks the Steele Dossier, James Bennet, and – Obviously – Semafor

Monica Lewinsky: Why These Midterms Really, Really Matter (Really)

Miami’s Longtime Art Patrons Bet Big on DC

Monica Lewinsky: Why These Midterms Really, Really Matter (Really)

CNN’s Chris Licht Stresses Relevance Over Ratings

NOVEMBER

The Supreme Court Is Ready to Gut Affirmative Action

What to Know Before Watching The Crown

Inventing Ivana Trump: Her Improbable Rise and Tragic Death

Jake Tapper Wasn’t the Answer to CNN’s Prime-Time Headache

News Outlets Are Bracing for Election Night Uncertainty

We’re Witnessing the Post-Truth Midterms

Trump Gave the DOJ Even More Reasons to Indict Him

John Fetterman Wins Pennsylvania Senate Race

The Fight to End a Systemic Miscarriage of Military Justice

Republicans’ Election-Denier Caucus Just Got Bigger

Black Panther and Its Delicate Dance of Grief and Legacy

Jacob Anderson Wants to Set Louis Free From Lestat

Margot Robbie Is Nobody’s Barbie

Inside Elizabeth Taylor’s Lonely Fight for AIDS Awareness

How Gabriela Hearst Turned Her Climate Obsession Into High Fashion

The House of Horrors Is Upon Us

“If it’s Not Biden, Then Who?”

Elizabeth Taylor’s Lonely Fight for AIDS Awareness

What Does Congress Do With a Problem Like Sam Bankman-Fried?

Billie Eilish Looks Back on 6 Years – And Teases a Few Updates

An Oral History of Planes, Trains and Automobiles

“The Most Dangerous Person in the World,” According to Mike Pompeo

The 21 Best Thanksgiving Movies to Stream

Inside Javanka’s Gilded Paradise – Far From Donald and 2024

Donald Trump, Sadly, Can’t Be Counted Out

Inside the World Cup’s Moral Dilemmas and Coverage Quirks

What Happens to Simon & Schuster Now?

Trump Doesn’t Want to Alienate His Antisemitic Supporters

The Same-Sex Marriage Vote Is Monumental – And Imperfect

DECEMBER

Hollywood’s Latest Diet Craze

Hakeem Jeffries’s Test of a Lifetime: Filling Nancy Pelosi’s Shoes

What Does the Future Hold for the Most Raucous Week in American Arts?

“Fuck Biden,” Don’t Tread on Me,” and a Wisconsin Death Trip for Our Era

Sarah Polley’s Radical Vision for Women Talking

Why Georgia’s Runoff Is Still a Must-Win for Democrats

Have Yourself a Very Matt Rogers Comedy Special

It’s Business as Usual for the Royal Family

Harry Styles and the Heartthrob-to-Hollywood Transition

Why the News Cycle Is Trapped in a Narcissist Vortex

The White Lotus Is Fantasy Island Plus The Love Boat

All the Easter Eggs You Missed in The White Lotus’s Finale

A First Look Inside Pamela Anderson’s New Documentary

Rian Johnsn’s Modern Take on Retro Mystery TV

Brothers on the Brink

Kate Hudson Breaks Free

Baby, This Was Keke Palmer’s Year

Tuning In to America’s Legacy of Race and Radicalism

Did TikTok Murder the Newsfeed?

The Best TV Coming in 2023

Evangelicals Are Quietly Ditching Trump

How the Great “Pivot to Christmas” Came to Be

Christmas in Kyiv: “The Cold and Loneliness Scared Me – Not the Russian Missiles”

Kamala Harris Reflects on a Very Turbulent Year in America

Billy McFarland Is Sorry – And He’s Got a New Pitch for You

Eric Adams Loves Being Mayor. Does NYC Love Him Back?

Vanity Fair’s Year in Photographs

2022’s Tech Mayhem Radically Changed Our Lives

7 Media Dramas We’re Watching Into the New Year

Turning Into America’s Legacy of Rage and Radicalism

The Year TikTok Made the Multiverse Real (and Murdered the Newsfeed)

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