Chris Smith
Contributing Editor
Chris Smith is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. He is the best-selling author of The Daily Show (the Book) and Till the End (with CC Sabathia). Smith joined VF after covering politics, entertainment, sports, and crime for New York magazine. Follow him on Twitter.
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“Deposing Trump Is Looking For the Icing on the Cake”: Letitia James’s Trump Investigation Is Nearing Its Endgame
The New York attorney general appears poised to take civil action against the former president and the Trump Organization, which also goes to trial in October on fraud charges brought by the Manhattan district attorney. Could the two probes bolster each other?“Trump Was His Last Lifeline”: Rudy Giuliani’s Faustian Bargain for Relevance
A conversation with writer Andrew Kirtzman, who is publishing his second biography of Rudy Giuliani—with insight from the former mayor’s ex-wife—on how the once-revered New York politician became the election-lie-peddling, hair-dye-sweating laughingstock of Trumpworld.“Plan B Is Complete Fucking Chaos”: What Will Dems Do If Biden Doesn’t Run?
With 2024 looming, Democrats are already feeling out their options. Pete Buttigieg? Kamala Harris? THE ROCK?!“We Always Bring a Butter Knife to a Gunfight”: How Democrats Failed to Respond to the Supreme Court, and What They Need to Do Now
A conversation with Brian Fallon, once a top aide to Democrats like Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton, who now runs Demand Justice, an advocacy group dedicated to reforming the courts.Raphael Warnock Should Trounce Herschel Walker. His Campaign Knows It Won’t Be That Easy.
The incumbent Democratic senator is facing an inexperienced candidate beset by stumbles and scandals—yet one who’s also Georgia football royalty and has Trump’s stamp of approval. As one strategist put it, “Those MAGA Republicans are going to look at him and go, ‘He’s for our tribe.’”Andrew Cuomo’s Comeback Is Going…Somewhere
While the state’s top Democrats marched in St. Patrick’s Day parades and drank green beer, Cuomo took his image-rehabilitation tour to the congregation of one of the state’s most controversial, most conservative Democrats.
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