Revolutionizing Political Documentaries

[View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair HIVE PS]( Revolutionizing Political Documentaries Good Saturday morning, dear reader!As ever, please forgive the interruption as you contemplate Shunryu Suzuki’s Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind. But we could never deprive you of the latest episode of Emily Jane Fox and Joe Hagan’s Inside the Hive podcast, or Beandrea July’s incisive look at how new political documentaries are tackling race and gender. We hope you are enjoying what you’re reading (and listening to). And don’t forget to [subscribe to Vanity Fair.]( Joe Hagan, Emily Jane Fox [“Nationalism Will Run Roughshod Over Democracy”: What Can Nazi Germany Tell Us About Trump’s GOP?]( [As Trump’s fearmongering, demonization, and threats of violence have invited comparisons to Hitler’s rise, historian Peter Fritzsche separates fact from exaggeration.]( [Listen]( From the Archive: David Margolick, Evgenia Peretz, Michael Shnayerson [The Path to Florida]( [As the Florida recount ate away at George W. Bush’s margin of victory (1,784 votes…327…154…), the machinery of political power sprang to life. In Washington, stunned U.S. Supreme Court clerks watched justice become partisan, while in Florida, tens of thousands of citizens—thousands of them African American—found themselves disenfranchised by misleading, faulty, and uncounted ballots, or inexplicably purged from the rolls. Zeroing in on the frenzied 36 days that followed the 2000 election, David Margolick, Evgenia Peretz, and Michael Shnayerson investigate the “Brooks Brothers riot,” Jeb Bush’s high-tech felon hunt, and the new voting machines that leave no paper trail, and ask, Could it happen again?]( [Read More]( Beandrea July [“You Cannot Tell a Political Story in This Moment…Without Foregrounding Race and Gender”: A New Wave of Politics Documentaries Is Revolutionizing the Genre]( [From the Stacey Abrams–centric All In to the two-part PBS series And She Could Be Next, films led by and featuring an inclusive group of women symbolize both a changing documentary-making landscape, and how political power is shifting at this pivotal moment.]( [Read More]( [ELSEWHERE] [Do You Speak Fox?]( [From The Atlantic]( [Read More]( [Buying Myself Back: When Does a Model Own Her Own Image?]( [From The Cut]( [Read More]( [YouTube’s Plot to Silence Conspiracy Theories]( [From Wired]( [Read More]( [Woodward Bested Trump the Same Way He Bested Nixon: Understanding Power]( [From Politico]( [Read More]( 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]( [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.