Bess Levin

1 week ago | vanityfair.com | Bess Levin

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday that the Department of Health and Human Services will no longer recommend that “healthy” pregnant women and children receive the COVID vaccine, despite the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention currently advising that all Americans six months and older receive the updated vaccine, and warning that pregnancy puts people at risk of becoming seriously ill from the virus, as well as suffering serious pregnancy complications.

1 week ago | vanityfair.com | Bess Levin

Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron whipped the internet and conservative media into a frenzy over the weekend, when video circulated showing the latter aggressively shoving the former’s face just before they stepped off a plane in Vietnam. Were they in the midst of a domestic dispute? Does the French first lady regularly manhandle her husband when she’s seemingly unaware that cameras are rolling? Is their marriage in trouble? According to the French president, none of the above.

Dec 18, 2024 | vanityfair.com | Bess Levin

Remember Herschel Walker? The NFL player who ran against Raphael Warnock for Senate in 2022, and whose his campaign for higher office could probably be best characterized by the words “what the fuck,” followed by “crash and burn”?

Dec 16, 2024 | vanityfair.com | Bess Levin

What can we expect of Donald Trump’s second term, besides mass deportations, January 6 pardons, a “virtual closure of [the] Department of Education,” and a potential end to some lifesaving childhood vaccines? A war on the media, it would seem!During a press conference on Monday, Trump was asked if he planned to file additional defamation lawsuits following the one he settled with ABC News over the weekend, which resulted in the network cutting a $15 million check.

Dec 16, 2024 | vanityfair.com | Bess Levin

As you’ve probably heard by now, a lot of people are deeply concerned about Donald Trump’s selection of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run the Department of Health and Human Services on account of Kennedy’s anti-vaccine views—which include the debunked idea that childhood vaccines can cause autism.