| MATTHEW LYNCH,
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A few weeks ago, Vanity Fair's Katherine Eban introduced readers to Casey Means, the onetime surgical resident now nominated to be surgeon general. Casey Means's personal story, that she saw the ills of the health care system from the inside before turning against it, has been key to her rise. Today, Eban profiles another Means sibling, Casey's older brother, Calley, who has also become a prominent figure in the MAHA movement. Calley Means has told a similar conversion narrative, that he was a pharma and food lobbyist who saw the light. That he is now one of the architects of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s takeover of the federal health apparatus speaks to the power of his story. But ex-colleagues of Calley's shared with Eban experiences that differ widely from the one he has often presented in public. Or, as one put it, "Maybe there was a six-month window when we all blacked out." Read more in her wide-ranging profile of a MAHA warrior.
Elsewhere today, we examine a new report that Elon Musk's ride on the Trump roller coaster was more heavily drug-induced than previously known; take a closer look at who, exactly, is getting presidential pardons these days; and examine whether the air itself could have played a role in the serial-killer wave of the 1970s and 1980s. |
One of the primary architects of the Make America Healthy Again takeover of the federal health apparatus, Calley Means has risen to power in part on the strength of his personal narrative: He was a Big Food and Big Pharma lobbyist who saw the light. Yet, a six-month Vanity Fair investigation raises questions about whether Means has embellished his personal story. "Calley Means is not a whistleblower. He is an opportunist, peddling junk science to make millions," says his former boss and mentor Steve Schmidt. |
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Sources told The New York Times that when Musk jumped on the campaign trail last year, he was "using drugs far more intensely than previously known." |
Though the Princess of Wales may not have gotten to drink the single-malt whiskey she smashed on the hull of the HMS Glasgow, she went home with a much nicer souvenir. |
The president's "no MAGA left behind" approach "makes a mockery of the idea that we are a nation of laws, not men," Senator Adam Schiff tells VF. |
Emmy-winning casting director Meredith Tucker reveals to VF how she and White find the HBO hit's stars, and why certain actors just won't make the cut: "Not everyone does fit in this world." |
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The Pacific Northwest is known for five things: lumber, aircraft, tech, coffee, and crime. Weyerhaeuser, Boeing, Microsoft, Starbucks, and serial killers.
In 1961 Tacoma, Washington, a smokestack leached toxic lead into the water and air. Living nearby: three men who would become some of the country's most notorious serial murderers.
What are the odds? In an excerpt from Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers, author Caroline Fraser maps out a decades-old mystery. |
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