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Sep 29, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Clara Molot

    Erika Kirk Doesn't Really Want to Talk Politics. So How's She Going to Lead Turning Point USA? (opens the original)

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    On the eve of America’s 250th birthday, JD Vance, Pete Hegseth, and Tulsi Gabbard braved the triple-digit DC heat in black tie— “my penguin suit,” Vance called it, grasping at his hillbilly roots—to show face at Turning Point USA’s donor ball. Inside Washington’s Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium under LED-projected stars, the crowd of more than 1,200 was a study in American exceptionalism, right down to the “250” shaved into one young man’s hair. Many of them weren’t there to see the vice president o

  2. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Clara Molot

    Unless You Have His Number, You’re Not Getting a Table (opens the original)

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    Four days after Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding, Este Haim and Fergie were still recovering over sour cream and onion martinis in a candy-striped booth on the corner of Houston and West Broadway. At a neighboring table, Vanessa Bryant, Kobe Bryant’s widow, and their daughter Natalia were sitting with the Bryants’ youngest girls, Bianka and Capri, as they excitedly ordered sodas. This was the same table where, two days later, Adrien Brody, wearing a tight black beanie in the middle of Jul

  3. Article · Aug 4, 2026 · Clara Molot

    How to Lose Billions (and Gain a Wife) in Two Days (opens the original)

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    Twenty-four-year-old AI wunderkind Leopold Aschenbrenner faced an unenviable situation in the days before his wedding to his fiancée, Anthropic chief of staff Avital Balwit: to sell roughly $3.5 billion worth of the private Anthropic stake held by Situational Awareness, his AI-centric $45 billion hedge fund, to stave off a margin call. Aschenbrenner, a German national, graduated as valedictorian at just 19 from Columbia University, where he cofounded an effective-altruism club (the movement, no

  4. Article · Jul 22, 2026 · Clara Molot

    From the Heritage Foundation to Drone Warfare: Inside the VC Firm Betting Big on Defense Tech (opens the original)

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    This is one of the many selling points investor Clint Brown gives for the San Diego–based defense-tech venture capital firm, which recently closed a $155 million fundraising round. Another selling point? Half of the fund’s 10 employees are former Navy SEALs, including founder and former Olympic swimmer Larsen Jensen. “There’s Andrew Couillard,” Brown says, listing another investor. “He was EOD.” When I ask what that means, Brown hesitates. “He knows how to defuse nukes,” he finally says, laughin

  5. Article · Jul 7, 2026 · Clara Molot

    Why Peter Thiel’s Secret Society Won’t Be Gathering in Ireland This Summer (opens the original)

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    Dialog, the private, invitation-only organization founded by Peter Thiel and Auren Hoffman, was headed to the Irish countryside for its secretive August retreat, until internet sleuths revealed key details about its guests and itinerary. Now, Vanity Fair can confirm, the five star hotel where the conference was scheduled to take place has canceled the event in response to backlash. In June, a person under the Bluesky account @crimew.gay posted that Dialog’s website, which appeared blank at fir

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