Joe Hagan

2 months ago | vanityfair.com | Joe Hagan

For nearly two years, as members of the storied Kennedy family reluctantly went public to warn that their brother and cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was a dangerous man unfit for higher office, the one voice conspicuously missing was that of Caroline Kennedy, daughter of John F. Kennedy. The greater Kennedy family has long maintained a code of silence around family matters, whether a tragic death or a darker secret. Speaking out against one of their own would be verboten.

Nov 13, 2024 | vanityfair.com | Joe Hagan

Josh O’Connor has carved out a very English profile in his career, having translated Prince Charles in The Crown for Netflix and imported an Oscar Wilde-ian insouciance to the American tennis player Patrick Zweig in Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers. O’Connor’s face, in close-up, can telegraph a deep well of unspoken emotion or an arch invitation to bad behavior. He is, in short, a romantic.

Oct 23, 2024 | vanityfair.com | Joe Hagan

In a presidential election so tight that no single poll can possibly be predictive—or comforting—experience is a premium. Stuart Stevens, the campaign cowboy who famously left the GOP to turn his fire on Trump as a member of the Lincoln Project, is nothing if not experienced. I first met Stevens 20 years ago when he was a media consultant on George W.

Oct 4, 2024 | vanityfair.com | Joe Hagan |Joe Hagan

When I first see Stephen Malkmus, he’s lounging on a park bench in Chicago, gangly and relaxed in a Japanese Racketto t-shirt, tan Ellese shorts, and well-worn Adidas sneakers, looking like a country-club tennis pro from the 1980s. Thirty years after “Cut My Hair” hit MTV and very nearly but didn’t quite vault his band Pavement to Nirvana-like success, he remains boyish and vaguely collegiate despite the creases in his eyes and silver shag under his baseball cap.

Sep 9, 2024 | vanityfair.com | Joe Hagan

Pete Buttigeig spends his days fulfilling his duties as Secretary of Transportation, but he is probably more famous as the rogue Democrat on Fox News, slicing and dicing GOP talking points with cool, calm, inconvenient facts. His sharp messaging and imperturbable persona is what made him a rumored replacement for Joe Biden before Biden decided to step down. And back in 2020, after his own brief primary run at the presidency, he became part of Kamala Harris’s debate prep team against Mike Pence.