| MATTHEW LYNCH,
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Reality Winner was a 25-year-old government contractor when she delivered a document on Russian election interference to a reporter, a crime for which she eventually served more than four years in federal prison. Today, in an exclusive excerpt from her upcoming memoir, Winner rather shrewdly observes that, like a lot of criminal behavior in American life, there’s a two-tiered justice system for leakers. “If you read newspapers or watch the news regularly, you’ll notice that the stories often include anonymous or background quotations from high-level officials in the United States government, who are revealing information they are not supposed to give to journalists, who are not supposed to have it,” Winner writes in a piece that may reframe some things for regular readers of the news.
Elsewhere today, Chris Murphy checks in on Jeremy O. Harris’s second (and third, and fourth, and fifth) acts; Prince Harry reportedly hopes to reunite with King Charles; and Donald Trump and his administration continue to rename anything in their sight line. |
Jeremy O. Harris’s first production, Slave Play, premiered off-Broadway and went on to nab a record 12 Tony nominations. His searing examination of sexual dynamics in interracial relationships became the hottest ticket in town, with mononyms like Zendaya, Rihanna, and Madonna rushing to see it. |
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Harris’s knack for exposing the darkest, rawest parts of the human condition and putting them on full display is why—love it or hate it—his work has generated so much discourse. As his latest wave of projects gains momentum, can he keep all the plates spinning? VF’s Chris Murphy checks in with the always busy Harris. |
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Stars—they’re just like us. Marc Brackett, founder of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and member of Selena Gomez’s Rare Beauty Mental Health Council, speaks to VF about working with Kate Middleton and the importance of regulating emotions. |
It seems unlikely that the president is going to stop with the Department of War, Mount McKinley, and the Gulf of America. Here are other things he could very likely be itching to rebrand. |
The Duke of Sussex is trying to schedule a face-to-face meeting with his father, whom he has not seen since February, during a four-day trip to the UK. |
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