Bess Levin is a politics correspondent at Vanity Fair. An essential voice of our current tragicomedy, she is an incisive, hilarious daily narrator of the horrors that never seem to stop.

AP Dhillon's current food obsession is a plate full of poha.

If there's one tool you can add to your kitchen to save time on prep is a food processor. A food processor can blend, chop, shred, grind and even make ice cream and pizza dough. Even if you're an ...

Bess Lovejoy is a writer and editor who lives in Brooklyn. She is the author of Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses. Tasked with curbing a 1907 outbreak, Esther Pohl emphasized the ...

After succeeding Franklin Roosevelt in 1945, Harry S. Truman won the presidency in his own right in 1948, defeating Republican Thomas Dewey and achieving one of the most stunning political comebacks ...

Both Gardner and Hoey had married well; Gardner was married into the politically powerful Webb family, while Hoey had married Gardner’s sister, Bess. Gardner earned a reputation as a most able ...