The 2020 Circus Hits Prime Time; Ghislaine Maxwell’s Prison Demands; and More

Plus: Welcome to the Conspiracy View in your browser | Update your preferences     A daily digest of things to discuss over drinks August 16, 2020   The 2020 Circus Hits Prime Time The hosts of Showtime's The Circus talk Biden, the Bernie left, and the future of campaigning. R E A D  M O R E »   Maria Ressa's Press-Freedom Fight Puts Democracy on Trial in the Philippines The Rappler cofounder's conviction signals a crossing-the-Rubicon moment in strongman president Rodrigo Duterte's war against the news media: If an internationally acclaimed journalist can be imprisoned, then no one is safe. R E A D  M O R E »   Sputnik, Russia's Hit New Sci-Fi Thriller, Is Familiarly Unfamiliar Director Egor Abramenko's feature debut has its charms, though you'll probably see them coming. R E A D  M O R E »   How Jared Kushner's Secret Testing Plan "Went Poof Into Thin Air" This spring, a team working under the president's son-in-law produced a plan for an aggressive, coordinated national COVID-19 response that could have brought the pandemic under control. So why did the White House spike it in favor of a shambolic 50-state response? R E A D  M O R E »   Why Prince Harry and Meghan's Fairy Tale Deserved to Be Retold Omid Scobie, who wrote the bombshell royal book Finding Freedom along with Carolyn Durand, talks about how he got to know the real Meghan, and why the royal family's relationships may still recover. R E A D  M O R E »   Ghislaine Maxwell Won't Get the Prison Move She Asked For Prosecutors said on Thursday that she'll remain separate from the general population. R E A D  M O R E »   From the Archive: Welcome to the Conspiracy Galvanized by 9/11, conspiracy theorists added the War on Terror to a multi-millennial narrative involving aliens, the pyramids, Freemasons, black helicopters, Skull and Bones, and, inevitably, the Jews. In the theorists' oddly self-comforting worldview, Rich Cohen reported in 2004, nothing is accidental, everything can be explained, and someone is always in control. R E A D  M O R E » This e-mail was sent to you by VANITY FAIR. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2020. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.