Issie Lapowsky

4 days ago | vanityfair.com | Issie Lapowsky

Xavier Becerra walked into one of the toughest jobs in Washington when he became Joe Biden’s secretary of health and human services at the height of the COVID pandemic in early 2021. “The day President Biden was sworn in, we essentially lost 10 jumbo jets of Americans,” he told Vanity Fair in an interview. Now, less than six months after leaving that role—as he watches the work he did at the Department of Health and Human Services be effectively dismantled by successor Robert F.

1 week ago | vanityfair.com | Issie Lapowsky

Despite Elon Musk's disdain for traditional journalism—“You are the media now,” he wrote to his followers X in January—the Tesla and SpaceX CEO has sat for a battery of interviews in the last week. Speaking with CNBC, CBS, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, and Ars Technica, Musk’s apparent goal seems to be to salvage his reputation and to reverse the damage done to his companies by his political maneuvering at DOGE.

1 week ago | vanityfair.com | Issie Lapowsky

Donald Trump was still a recently canned reality star and an underdog candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 when he first started picking on Apple. "We're going to get Apple to build their damn computers and things in this country instead of in other countries,” he said in a speech at Liberty University. But that promise never panned out. Not during Trump 1.0. Not during the Biden years.

2 weeks ago | vanityfair.com | Issie Lapowsky

Just hours after House Republicans passed a budget package that could strip healthcare from more than 7 million people and deprive some 3 million of food assistance, President Donald Trump, and Department of Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held an event at the White House where they insisted with straight faces that they were trying to make America healthy. “We will not stop until we defeat the chronic disease epidemic in America,” Trump said.

2 weeks ago | vanityfair.com | Issie Lapowsky

Gone was the black MAGA hat. So too, the chainsaw. Little X AE A-12? Perched presumably somewhere other than his father’s shoulders in the Oval Office. Instead, as Elon Musk sat down for an interview Tuesday inside Tesla’s gigafactory, a sleek fleet of electric vehicles parked just behind him, he seemed determined to send a clear message: That he was getting back to the serious business of being a CEO.