Will College Football Players Finally Get Paid?; Mike Pompeo’s Long Game; and More

Plus: Hurricane Katrina, 15 Years Later View in your browser | Update your preferences     A daily digest of things to discuss over drinks August 27, 2020   College Football Players Are Unpaid Stars on the Field—And Have No Power Off It Bomani Jones, the ESPN host, digs into the controversy, according to coaches, experts, and athletes themselves. R E A D  M O R E »   Lindsey Graham Talks TikTok, Online Conspiracies, and Why He's Sticking With Trump The South Carolina senator, facing a tough reelection fight, recalls warning Trump not to shut down TikTok after getting calls from Hannity, Petraeus, and his niece: "You're going to get kicked in the ass by a bunch of young people." R E A D  M O R E »   A COVID-Era Awards Show That Honors New York In addition to hosting Sunday's outdoor version of MTV's lively awards show, Keke Palmer, the multihyphenate star is also releasing Virgo Tendencies: Part 1, an E.P. of new songs, on Friday. R E A D  M O R E »   Tenet in Paris: Christopher Nolan's Movie Meets the French "I think you need to see it three or four times to really understand it," said a young theatergoer named Baptiste. "But I wouldn't go again tomorrow." R E A D  M O R E »   Tucker Carlson Defends Kenosha Shooter for Just Trying to "Maintain Order" The Fox News star's justification of vigilante violence is a running theme in right-wing media, where others, including Ann Coulter, have defended the teenager suspected of killing two protesters. R E A D  M O R E »   Mike Pompeo's Long Game Is Impossible to Ignore Diplomats and ex-officials Vanity Fair spoke to are once again incensed at the secretary's blatant campaigning. But as in so much of Trumpworld, the outrage may be the point. R E A D  M O R E »   From the Archive: How New Orleans Drowned As Hurricane Katrina bore down, and weather experts sounded the alarm, every hour counted. Yet Mayor Ray Nagin waited to order a mandatory evacuation; FEMA director Michael Brown held off on readying adequate relief; Governor Kathleen Blanco and President Bush exchanged form letters, instead of urgent phone calls. In an excerpt from his 2007 book, The Great Deluge, Douglas Brinkley laid out a life-and-death timeline of that desperate week of August 27, 2005, revealing the foolishness, fear, and politics that turned natural disaster into man-made catastrophe. R E A D  M O R E » Get on the list Subscribe to our Hollywood newsletter for your essential industry and awards-season news, every day. Sign Up Now     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.