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Michael Calderone
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Journalist Past reporting/editing: Vanity Fair, Politico, HuffPost, NY Observer. Teaching: Princeton, NYU https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlcalderone/
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Michael Calderone @calderone.bsky.social · 1d
Excited to be starting next week... I'll be editing and writing, so send tips!
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Talking Biz News @talkingbiznews.bsky.social · 1d
@thewrap.com has hired Michael Calderone as media editor: talkingbiznews.com/media-news/t...
The Wrap hires Calderone as media editor - Talking Biz News
The Wrap has hired Michael Calderone as media editor. He previously was the senior editor of Vanity Fair’s The Hive for five years. He previously reported for more than a decade on political media and...
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New York Press Club @nypressclub.bsky.social · 16d
[email protected] will cap this year's Fall Journalism Conference, where she'll talk to @calderone.bsky.social on all these journalism!

Be there for this fantastic event on Nov. 1!

Tickets now available:
2025 Conference on Journalism - Registration - The New York Press Club
The New York Press Club and New York Press Club Foundation are proud to present the 2023 Conference on Journalism brought to you in partnership with the Journalism Association of New York.
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Michael Calderone @calderone.bsky.social · Aug 14
Thanks Luke
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Michael Calderone @calderone.bsky.social · Aug 13
It's true... I’ve been honored to run the Hive for the last several years, working with some of the best in the business. I'm immensely proud of the work we did through two presidential elections and a pandemic, and amid the persistent news cycle churn—will be rooting for the VF team going forward.
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Talking Biz News @talkingbiznews.bsky.social · Aug 13
@calderone.bsky.social is leaving @vanityfair.com after five years: talkingbiznews.com/media-news/c...
Calderone departing Vanity Fair's The Hive after five years - Talking Biz News
Michael Calderone, the senior editor of Vanity Fair’s The Hive, is leaving the publication after five years. The magazine’s editorial director announced in an internal message earlier this week that T...
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · Aug 6
I wrote about Gov Pritzker and the Texas redistricting fight

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How JB Pritzker Is Fighting to Stop Trump From Redrawing the Map
The pugnacious Illinois governor, who is shielding Texas lawmakers avoiding a vote on partisan redistricting efforts at home, tells Vanity Fair, “I knew on day one this time around, we had to fight ag...
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Michael Calderone @calderone.bsky.social · Jul 21
We have an exclusive piece from Bernice King as the government releases MLK assassination files

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Bernice King Speaks Out as the Government Releases Files About Her Father, Martin Luther King Jr.
The declassification of a new round of MLK records conjures her mother Coretta’s words: “They keep trying to assassinate your father over and over again.”
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · Jul 17
"I wondered which border I had crossed without my knowledge" -- Rumeysa Ozturk, imprisoned for writing an op-ed in the Tufts University student newspaper. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...
“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison
Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · Jul 17
For the first time since she was freed from an immigration prison, Rümeysa Öztürk speaks. And she does so by ... writing:

"Writing is the heart of freedom of expression. Unbelievably, this single opinion piece, published in our student newspaper, would lead to my arrest and detention."
“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison
Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.
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Michael Calderone @calderone.bsky.social · Jul 17
In a powerful first-person account, Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up for the first time about her shocking arrest and 45 days in an ICE detention center.

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“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison
Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.
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Vanity Fair @vanityfair.com · Jun 27
Former Obama speechwriter David Litt has some ideas about what Democrats can learn from the manosphere.
Finally, a “Hillbilly Elegy for People Who Hate JD Vance”
Former Obama speechwriter David Litt on the lessons Democrats can learn from the manosphere.
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · Jun 27
Here’s my takedown of the Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship non-ruling:

Amy Coney Barrett takes balkanized, neo-Confederate approach where you’re only protected in areas where states or individual plaintiffs can sue—and nowhere else.

No way to run a railroad, let alone a nation of laws.
On Birthright Citizenship, the Supreme Court Gives Trump a Blunt Tool to Hammer Judges
The president applauded the conservative majority’s 6-3 ruling limiting nationwide injunctions to stop executive orders, a move sure to sow chaos and open the door to unchecked lawlessness. As Justice...
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · Jun 27
Make no mistake:

In all but nullifying nationwide, “universal” injunctions in these cases, where a uniform rule of law for birthright citizenship is gravely needed, the Supreme Court chose chaos.

Yes, the right still exists. But a lot of needless confusion, fear, and litigation lie ahead.
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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · Jun 27
Justice Barrett writes for the right-wing supermajority reining in nationwide injunctions and letting Trump unconstitutionally end birthright citizenship in areas of the country where judges have not yet blocked Trump's citizenship-stripping executive order. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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Vanity Fair @vanityfair.com · Jun 26
In an exclusive interview with VF, Wall Street tech analyst Dan Ives talks Musk’s return to Tesla, the AI boom, and the market impact of the Israel-Iran conflict: “The market has gotten used to chaos and uncertainty.”
“Bullish for Tech”: Wall Street’s Most Tireless Optimist Isn’t Rattled by Trump, Musk, or Conflict in Iran
As Trump bombs Iran and Musk melts down, Dan Ives says the future looks bright—for tech stocks, anyway.
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Michael Calderone @calderone.bsky.social · Jun 25
“For the first time, it became clear that young women today will have fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers,” @kamalaharris.com tells @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social on Dobbs anniversary. “But even in the face of that loss, we keep fighting.”

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Kamala Harris, Recalling “Devastating” Day of Dobbs Decision, Urges Women to “Keep Fighting”
The former vice president made a surprise visit to a conference of abortion storytellers, whose “voices,” she tells Vanity Fair, “are vital to our nation in the ongoing fight for reproductive freedom....
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Vanity Fair @vanityfair.com · Jun 23
JD Vance, Marco Rubio, and others say strikes on Iran aren’t meant to bring down the country’s leaders. But on Truth Social, Trump appears to say otherwise.
Trump and His Advisers Can’t Get The Message Straight on Regime Change in Iran
JD Vance, Marco Rubio, and others say strikes on Iran aren’t meant to bring down Iran's leaders. But on Truth Social, their boss appears say otherwise.
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Michael Calderone @calderone.bsky.social · Jun 23
Sioux City Dispatch: Eric Lutz catches up with Democratic Senate hopeful @jdscholten.bsky.social in the bullpen

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A Minor-League Pitcher Is Leading the Charge to Oust Joni Ernst
After Ernst dismissed concerns over Medicaid cuts with a glib, “We’re all going to die,” a Democratic Iowa state representative named J.D. Scholten launched a campaign to flip her Senate seat—after he...
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Michael Calderone @calderone.bsky.social · Jun 23
Get to know @barakravid.bsky.social, one of the go-to reporters on US/Israel/Iran right now via this @nataliekorach.bsky.social profile

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The Israeli Reporter Getting the Scoop on Trump’s High-Stakes Diplomacy
‘Axios’ journalist Barak Ravid has been breaking news on negotiations with everyone from Hamas to Iran to Ukraine—just ask Zelenskyy—while making his presence felt in Washington. He talks with VF abou...
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issielapowsky.bsky.social @issielapowsky.bsky.social · Jun 20
Elon keeps stiffing people. She keeps suing him.

Really fun interview with Shannon Liss-Riordan, the renowned labor lawyer, on how she's carving out a subspecialty in "billionaire justice." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/s...
Elon Musk Keeps Stiffing People. She Keeps Suing Him
Shannon Liss-Riordan is one of the country’s most renowned labor lawyers. Lately, she’s also developed a specialty in “billionaire justice.”
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Vanity Fair @vanityfair.com · Jun 20
On Thursday, the LA Dodgers issued a statement on social media saying that ICE agents had “requested permission to access the parking lots” at Dodger Stadium, but “were denied entry to the grounds by the organization.”
The Dodgers Are Thrust Into Trump’s LA Immigration Crackdown
While Kike Hernández, for one, expressed anger over his community being “ripped apart,” the team’s silence in recent weeks invited scrutiny. But the appearance Thursday of federal agents, and proteste...
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Vanity Fair @vanityfair.com · Jun 20
Shannon Liss-Riordan is one of the country’s most renowned labor lawyers. Lately, she’s also developed a specialty in “billionaire justice”––and she has her sights set on Elon Musk.
Elon Musk Keeps Stiffing People. She Keeps Suing Him
Shannon Liss-Riordan is one of the country’s most renowned labor lawyers. Lately, she’s also developed a specialty in “billionaire justice.”
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Vanity Fair @vanityfair.com · Jun 19
What is Curtis Yarvin planning for the US Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale? Hint: It’s not a retrospective of Jon McNaughton’s portraits of bloody, triumphant, muscly Trump. It’s somehow crazier.
“The Barbarians Are at the Gates”: Curtis Yarvin Has Big Art Plans for the US Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale
It’s not a retrospective of Jon McNaughton’s portraits of bloody, triumphant, muscly Trump. It’s somehow crazier.
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · Jun 18
If you're not placing today's ruling against gender-affirming care for trans youth in the context of John Roberts' lifelong campaign to suck the life out of the Fourteenth Amendment, and equality for actual humans more broadly, you're doing it wrong.

Here, for @vanityfair.com, I attempt to do that.
The Supreme Court That Ended the Fundamental Right to an Abortion Won’t Protect Trans Youth From Discrimination
Much like in Dobbs, the conservative supermajority has created a nation where kids with gender dysphoria, and their families, will be treated unequally depending on where they live.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · Jun 17
Worth the read.
How John Roberts Created the Anti-constitutional Monster Devouring Washington
From ushering in Citizens United to granting presidents broad immunity, no one in the capital is more responsible for Donald Trump’s destructive second term than the Supreme Court’s chief justice.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · Jun 16
The 250th Army anniversary military parade-slash-79th birthday celebration was the kind of patriotic (and self-promotional) spectacle that Donald Trump had longed for since early in his first administration.

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No Kings for a Day
Donald Trump’s long-desired military parade in Washington was overshadowed by millions of Americans speaking out in thousands of towns and cities. Let’s hope Democratic leaders were paying attention.
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · Jun 16
A light read from me on this dreary June day:

For the next issue of @vanityfair.com, I have a deeper exploration of all the ways John Roberts helped create the anti-constitutional monster that has been devouring Washington since January.

Necessarily, the story begins with Citizens United.
How John Roberts Created the Anti-constitutional Monster Devouring Washington
From ushering in Citizens United to granting presidents broad immunity, no one in the capital is more responsible for Donald Trump’s destructive second term than the Supreme Court’s chief justice.
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