The Next Climate Change Calamity?

MSNBC Ratings Spike • Trump Trial Date • GOP Impeachment Push [View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair Hive logo image]( The Next Climate Change Calamity? Good morning from the Hive newsroom! Charlotte Klein [reports]( how MSNBC’s ratings are growing alongside Donald Trump’s legal woes. (Speaking of, the DOJ’s election case is [now set]( to start in March). “MSNBC is firing on all cylinders just as its competitors face a period of instability,” she writes, with one CNN producer lamenting how their network has “lost a ton of audience to MSNBC.” “Call it a ‘microbial inconvenient truth,’” David Ewing Duncan [writes]( in an essay adapted from The Voyage of Sorcerer II, his forthcoming book with human-genome-pioneer Craig Venter. Humans pouring the “chemical equivalent of fast food into the atmosphere and the oceans,” he writes, is “putting enormous pressure on critical, planet-wide systems that, in the coming decades, could face collapse.” [The Next Climate Change Calamity?: We’re Ruining the Microbiome, According to Human-Genome-Pioneer Craig Venter]( By [David Ewing Duncan]( [In a new book (coauthored with Venter), a Vanity Fair contributor presents the oceanic evidence that human activity is altering the fabric of life on a microscopic scale.]( [Read more button](   [MSNBC Is Having Its Super Bowl With Donald Trump’s Indictments]( By [Charlotte Klein]( [The network’s mix of weighty reflection, analysis, and schadenfreude is drawing in major ratings, surpassing Fox News and CNN as the go-to network for coverage of Trump’s criminal charges.]( [Read more button](   [Donald Trump’s Plan to Get Reelected and Pardon Himself Was Just Dealt Serious Setback]( By [Bess Levin]( [His federal trial on charges of trying to overturn the election will take place next March.]( [Read more button](   [Kevin McCarthy Suddenly Very Open to a Joe Biden Impeachment Push]( By [Eric Lutz]( [The House Speaker, who is currently battling to keep far-right members in line, said an impeachment inquiry would be a “natural step forward.”]( [Read more button](   [A Fourth Arrest and a Mug Shot Turned Out Pretty Well for Donald Trump’s Bottom Line]( By [Bess Levin]( [He may ultimately end up in prison, but he’s got money in the bank.]( [Read more button](   Get on the list Subscribe to our Hollywood newsletter for your essential industry and awards-season news, every day. [Sign Up Now](   [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn](   This e-mail was sent to you by The Hive. 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](newsletter=vf) Sent from Condé Nast, 1 World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007 Copyright © 2023 Condé Nast