Inside Hearst’s Game of Thrones

[View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair HIVE PS]( Inside Hearst’s Game of Thrones Good Saturday morning, dear reader. Please do pardon the intrusion as you peruse Empedocles’s Fragments, say, a fitting work for the reality in which we find ourselves. But we would hate to deprive you of the latest episode of Emily Jane Fox and Joe Hagan’s Inside the Hive podcast, or Joe Pompeo’s dish from inside Hearst, where a unionization push and a leadership vacuum are throwing the magazine empire’s future into question. We hope you are enjoying what you’re reading (and listening to). And don’t forget to [subscribe to Vanity Fair.]( Emily Jane Fox [“Down the Road We Go”: On Loss and Leadership]( [Remembering John Homans, a giant among magazine editors and the Hive’s peerless leader.]( [Listen]( From the Archive: Gabriel Sherman [All the King’s Rivals]( [Trump’s advisers insist he’s on track to win reelection. So why are top Republicans lining up to take his place? Gabriel Sherman goes inside the chaotic campaign to fend off challengers right and left and Make Trump President Again.]( [Read More]( Joe Pompeo [After Troy Young’s Flameout, Can Hearst Untangle Its Management “Morass”?]( [The employee union is ascendant at the magazine publisher behind Esquire and Cosmo—and the search is on for a new president. David Carey? Not again. Kate Lewis? Not Likely. Debi Chirichella? Well, maybe.]( [Read More]( [ELSEWHERE] [A Rolling Tribute to John Homans]( [From New York magazine]( [Read More]( [I Went to Disney World]( [From The Atlantic]( [Read More]( [Barack Obama’s Eulogy for John Lewis]( [From the New York Times]( [Read More]( [Portland’s Front Lines]( [From The Cut]( [Read More]( [(image) Condé Nast Spotlight | Stay on top of the issues that matter now. The most popular stories from Vogue, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Wired, Architectural Digest and more. STAY INFORMED]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn]( This e-mail was sent to you by HIVE PS. 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.