Best of the Hive: New Year’s Edition

Trump’s 2020 Campaign • The Privacy Policy • An Unforgettable CBS Exit [View this email in your browser]( [Advertisement]( [Powered by LiveIntent]( [AdChoices]( Best of the Hive: New Year’s Edition Good morning! What a year it has been, dear reader: Donald Trump’s campaign manager and personal lawyer were both sentenced to prison, Mark Zuckerberg lost $22 billion, Elizabeth Warren announced she is running for president, and our 401(k)s took a nosedive. But who are we to get nostalgic? Say adieu to 2018 properly, with these sterling examples of Hive reportage, and then gird your loins for the year ahead. We hope that you’re enjoying what you’re reading. Have a great day! [Colorful cartoon illustration of Trump's election "competitors"]( [Inside the Trump 2020 Campaign’s Wild, Disorganized Plan to “Keep America Great”]( By [Gabriel Sherman]( [The president is running his re-election campaign precisely the way he governs—playing three opposing power centers off each other, and listening mainly to his own instincts. It’s going to get ugly, and soon. “We’re going to call them out,” says Steve Bannon. “Elizabeth Warren? Kamala Harris? Howard Schultz? He’s going to cut through these guys like a scythe through grass.”]( [“He Doesn’t Believe in It”: Mark Zuckerberg Has Never Cared About Your Privacy, and He’s Not Going to Change]( By [Nick Bilton]( [From Facebook’s earliest days, Zuckerberg has followed the same pattern: take two steps forward, only to be pushed one step backward and land exactly where he wanted to be.]( [Is Donald Trump a Racist? Michael Cohen Opens Up About the President’s Sordid Past]( By [Emily Jane Fox]( [As he awaits his fate, Trump’s former lawyer says that he wants to clear his conscience and warn voters about what he sees as the president’s true nature.]( [“Everyone’s for Sale”: A Generation of Digital-Media Darlings Prepares for a Frigid Winter]( By [Joe Pompeo]( [Vice, Vox, and BuzzFeed, among other companies that once heralded the dawn of a new media age, are now grappling with decidedly old-media problems.]( [Les Moonves Admits to Unwanted Kissing of His Doctor 19 Years Ago]( By [William D. Cohan]( [Another wrinkle emerges in Moonves’s negotiated exit from CBS, and within one of the more head-spinning #MeToo story lines yet.]( [Advertisement]( [Powered by LiveIntent]( [AdChoices]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn]( This e-mail was sent to you by The Hive. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, [vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com]( to your address book. View our [Privacy Policy]( [Unsubscribe]( Copyright © Condé Nast 2018. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.