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Plus: Inside Ronald Reagan's Diaries View in your browser | Update your preferences     A daily digest of things to discuss over drinks December 12, 2020   Why 2020 Made Us Ready for Fleetwood Mac and Steely Dan Again Boomer rock, rejected for decades, was just the right amount of stoned and sad for a year spent disconnected from whatever once made us too cool. R E A D  M O R E »   31 Charitable Holiday Gifts That Give Back From jewelry to T-shirts to a skateboard deck. R E A D  M O R E »   Review: Tom Hanks Navigates a Roiling, Post–Civil War America Paul Greengrass's lovely Western News of the World follows a traveling newsreader, an orphan girl, and a country that believes what it wants to believe. R E A D  M O R E »   After a Roller-Coaster Year, Things Are Looking Up for Harry and Meghan The Sussexes are on "much better" terms with the royal family—and "optimistic" about 2021. R E A D  M O R E »   Rick Perlstein Breaks Down America's Rightward Turn On Inside the Hive, the acclaimed historian discusses how the country's political shift four decades ago helped create the blueprint for Trump's rise. R E A D  M O R E »   The Best Vitamin C Treatments for a Winter Complexion Boost This hardworking antioxidant gives skin a brightening lift—and the time to re-up is now. R E A D  M O R E »   From the Archive: Reagan, Unscripted All the qualities that made Ronald Reagan one of the most popular presidents in modern American history are reflected in the diaries that he kept throughout his eight years in office. Here he is, losing his temper with the Soviets (and his son Ron), cracking jokes about Castro, protecting Nancy, holding the weeping mothers of Marines killed in Beirut. In 2007 an exclusive excerpt, edited and introduced by Douglas Brinkley, recalled the turbulent sweep of the era Reagan dominated, including his takes on being shot, Israel's bombing of Iraq, the Challenger explosion, Iran-contra, and his chemistry with Gorbachev. 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.