The Biggest V.F. Stories of 2020: Kushner’s Foibles, Ghislaine on the Lam, and More

The Most Captivating Articles of a Very Strange Year View in your browser | Update your preferences     A daily digest of things to discuss over drinks December 31, 2020   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 »   "Ghislaine, Is That You?": Inside Ghislaine Maxwell's Life on the Lam For a year leading up to her arrest, the vanishing act of Jeffrey Epstein's longtime friend, lover, and alleged accomplice vexed the authorities, the press, and the women who accuse her of luring them into a web of sexual abuse. R E A D  M O R E »   Ivanka Trump Was My Best Friend. Now She's MAGA Royalty Lysandra Ohrstrom met Ivanka Trump at an all-girls school on the Upper East Side, and they were inseparable for more than a decade. Gradually, though, their differences divided them—"Why would you tell me to read a book about fucking poor people?" Ivanka once asked—and Ohrstrom watched her blow up her carefully curated image of refined privilege to embrace her father wholesale. R E A D  M O R E »   Princess Anne Opens Up About Her Lifetime as a Royal The only daughter of Queen Elizabeth talks philanthropy, family, and royal change. R E A D  M O R E »   On Witness and Respair: A Personal Tragedy Followed by Pandemic Acclaimed novelist Jesmyn Ward lost her beloved husband—the father of her children—as COVID-19 swept across the country. She writes through their story, and her grief. R E A D  M O R E »   What Else Made Our Top 10? From Rudy Giuliani to Baby Yoda, read the rest of our biggest hits here. 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.