Posts Tagged ‘Vanity Fair’

An Affair to Forget: Today, Rebranding Becomes Him (Petraeus, Et Al)

An Affair to Forget: Today, Rebranding Becomes Him (Petraeus, Et Al)

[Originally posted on Forbes.com.] Years ago I wanted to write a book, Another Woman: From Cleopatra to Marla, but now that seems to take us only halfway through the evolution of the mistress. After Marla Maples, who secretly dated Donald Trump for two years in the ’80s while he was still married to Ivana (before [...]


Moved to Action

Moved to Action

Originally posted on the Huffington Post. In my travels around the world, I’ve (over)heard a lot of ways for people to say they’ve reached a point of no return with their frustration, feeling so full of stress that they’re stirred from passive acceptance to action. Some cultures say it’s “the drop that makes the jar [...]


Tina Brown’s New (Old) Venture

Tina Brown’s New (Old) Venture

On Monday, the new, redesigned version of Newsweek, the first with Tina Brown’s editor-in-chief stamp on it, debuted on newsstands. On NPR this week, Brown talked about how her career has come full circle, saying, “It was ironic, because I had abandoned print, having spent a life in print, and gone into the digital world. [...]