Is a News-Cycle Slowdown Coming?

[View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair HIVE PS]( Is a News-Cycle Slowdown Coming? Good Saturday morning, and happy All Hallows’ Eve, dear reader! Please do forgive our interruption as you perform your divination rituals and prepare to collect your soul cakes. But even on this most haunting of days, 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 inside look at how the fourth estate is prepping for the future of the news. We hope you are enjoying what you’re reading (and listening to). And don’t forget to [subscribe to Vanity Fair.]( Emily Jane Fox, Joe Hagan [Will the Trump Show Ever End?]( [Inside the Hive hosts and a Hollywood writer brainstorm a bookend—or a cliff-hanger—for the past four years.]( [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]( Joe Pompeo [“It’s Gonna Get a Lot Worse Before It Gets Better”: For Political Reporters Burned Out on Trumpian Chaos, Is a News-Cycle Slowdown Coming?]( [A Biden presidency would likely be quieter—no predawn Twitter rants, “enemy of the people” attacks, or endless scandal—and also less leaky. The pace won’t change overnight, whoever wins, given ongoing crises. But, says one reporter, “It would be nice to have a life again.”]( [Read More]( [ELSEWHERE] [Enablement]( [From New York magazine]( [Read More]( [Data Disappeared]( [From HuffPost]( [Read More]( [The Death and Life of America’s Greatest City]( [From Gen]( [Read More]( [The Corporate Feminism of NXIVM]( [From the Paris Review]( [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.