Tyranny—It’s What’s for Dinner

Some of America’s finest cuisine has a new price: the customer’s wishes. Corby Kummer on the dining by decree at today’s hottest restaurants—and how an uprising is imminent.

The Kennebunk Crucible

As the local police precinct releases names of clients of Zumba instructor turned alleged prostitute Alexis Wright, a sleepy Maine town opens up on what residents knew all along—and how everything fell apart.

Jennifer Takes Aim

Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence poses for Ellen von Unwerth and opens up about how acting “is stupid”—and that time she almost shot suspected home intruders with her bow and arrow.

Cease-fire?

The week that Sandy Hook Elementary resumes classes, Kurt Eichenwald lays out the arguments for repealing the Second Amendment.

The Accidental Activist

Norma McCorvey, now 65, seemed the perfect poster child for abortion rights when she became Roe v. Wade’s Jane Roe 40 years ago. But since then, opposing forces have turned her into a career mouthpiece—and low-priced commodity.

Love in America

Do we believe in love at first sight? What if you’re already married? Our monthly Vanity Fair/60 Minutes poll asks Americans that and more about our complicated relationship lives.

In the News

Now that embattled ex-spouses Chris and Tory Burch have reached a settlement in the court battle over the company they founded, read the definitive account of how their glamorous marriage—and savvy billion-dollar business—fell apart.

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