Ava DuVernay Interviews Angela Davis; Biden’s Deadliest Weapon Against Trump; and More

[Plus: The Rise of Evangelical Thought]( [View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair's Cocktail Hour]( A daily digest of things to discuss over drinks August 26, 2020 [Image may contain: Human, Person, Clothing, Apparel, and Magazine]( [Ava DuVernay Interviews Angela Davis]( [The scholar and activist has spent more than 50 years working for social justice. This summer, society started to catch up.]( [R E A D M O R E »]( [Ashley Etienne]( [Biden’s Deadliest Weapon Against Trump]( [Political strategist Ashley Etienne was the mind behind Democrats’ impeachment messaging, which won over half the country. Now “the queen of the war rooms” is in the Biden camp, and her sights are trained on the president.]( [R E A D M O R E »]( [Image may contain: Hat, Clothing, Apparel, Human, Person, Advertisement, Collage, Poster, and Kate Valk]( [Moira Rose’s Best Looks]( [Catherine O’Hara and her brilliant Schitt’s Creek creative team remember the inspiration behind Moira’s most outrageously committed looks.]( [R E A D M O R E »]( [RNC Night 2]( [Trump’s Brand of Biblical Capitalism May Make Him Unbeatable]( [Democrats’ mistake is to assume that, under the Republican umbrella, there’s still an uneasy marriage between businesspeople and people of faith. Tuesday’s RNC proved Trumpism has blended the two in the face of an imagined threat—and that both may be beyond Democrats’ reach.]( [R E A D M O R E »]( [LOVE FRAUD, Showtime]( [The Addictive Love Fraud May Steal Tiger King’s Crown]( [In Showtime’s new docuseries, women who’ve been duped by the same smooth con artist team up with a bounty hunter for revenge.]( [R E A D M O R E »]( [Image may contain: Human, Crowd, Person, Flag, Symbol, and Melania Trump]( [Republicans Put COVID in the Rearview on Night Two of Trump’s Big Bash]( [In norm-obliterating fashion, Trump used the White House as a prop and cabinet members played politics during the primetime spectacle, which barely mentioned the pandemic. Larry Kudlow, for one, suggested the crisis was in the past.]( [R E A D M O R E »]( [From the Archive: American Rapture]( [In Tim LaHaye’s best-selling thrillers, evangelical Christians are “raptured” up to heaven, leaving secular humanists to perish in an epic bloodbath. To millions of Americans, that’s not fiction. It’s a theology that continues to touch the White House, Craig Unger reported in 2005.]( [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]( [(image) Condé Nast Spotlight | The breaking news and top stories everyone is talking about. All in one place. The most popular stories from Vogue, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Wired, Architectural Digest and more. STAY INFORMED]( [Vanity Fair Logo](www.vanityfair.com) [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [YouTube]( 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.