To Panic, or Not to Panic: The 2024 Election Question

2024 Anxiety • Biden on Israel • Chris Christie Mea Culpa [View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair Hive logo image]( To Panic, or Not to Panic: The 2024 Election Question Good morning from the Hive newsroom. The Iowa caucuses are just days away, which means there’s no escaping the reality that it is indeed a presidential election year. For Inside the Hive, host Brian Stelter talked with Vanity Fair’s Michael Calderone and Claire Howorth about [the animating issues of 2024](, including how to cover Donald Trump and his authoritarian ideology, and the forceful objectivity that has tripped up some news organizations. Elsewhere, Eric Lutz [writes about]( rising pressure from within the Biden campaign for the president to call for a ceasefire as the crisis in Gaza worsens. “It is not enough to merely be the alternative to Donald Trump,” more than a dozen campaign staffers wrote in an open letter to the president. “This administration’s profound sense of empathy is one of the reasons we felt inspired to join your reelection campaign,” the staffers added. “Now, we have faith that you will listen to the two-thirds of the country and three-quarters of our fellow Democrats who support a ceasefire.” Plus, Bess Levin has [the latest]( on GOP presidential hopeful Chris Christie attempting to apologize for supporting Trump in 2016. [To Panic, or Not to Panic: The 2024 Election Question]( By [Brian Stelter]( [Vanity Fair’s Claire Howorth and Michael Calderone preview the animating issues of this presidential election year, including how to cover Donald Trump.]( [Read more button](   [Joe Biden Can’t Ignore the Internal Pressure Over the Israel-Hamas Conflict]( By [Eric Lutz]( [A second administration official resigned in protest over the president’s approach to the war, the same day more than a dozen campaign staffers in an open letter urged him to call for a ceasefire as the crisis in Gaza worsens.]( [Read more button](   [Chris Christie Apologizes for Previously Backing Trump, Who He Now Believes Will “Burn America to the Ground”]( By [Bess Levin]( [“I was wrong. I made a mistake.”]( [Read more button](   [Why the Epstein Document Release Probably Won’t Provide All the Answers]( By [Dan Adler]( [The much-anticipated release of court papers related to a defamation suit against Ghislaine Maxwell has so far provided clipped references to Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, and Prince Andrew and little in the way of revelation.]( [Read more button](   [Mark Cuban Explains to Elon Musk Why Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Is Not “Racism”]( By [Bess Levin]( [It’s not clear if Cuban has changed hearts and minds.]( [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]( Sent from Condé Nast, 1 World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007 Copyright © 2024 Condé Nast