THE NEW ABNORMAL
The New Abnormal hosts Andy Levy and Molly Jong-Fast break down the latest GOP book announcements, including one by Jared Kushner that Andy says no one cares about.
Mandy Velez is a former managing editor at The Daily Beast where she focused on audience development and overseeing off-platform products like podcasts and newsletters. She did reporting, too. She was a Beast after all! You can also find her work at Yahoo, Teen Vogue, The Washington Post's The Lily and more. Follow her without a filter on Twitter @mandy_velez or Instagram @mandyvel.
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‘I WON’T SEE IT’
What does it say about representation in film when the starring character is specifically supposed to be Puerto Rican yet casting chooses someone who is not?
BOLD
Proenza Schouler staged their NYFW show with Gigi Hadid and other models posing beside the Hudson. Plus, Duncan, Elena Velez, and Fried Rice served up glamor and retro-made-new.
SUPPORT SYSTEM
Social media users—from normies to celebrities—are sharing ways to aid refugees coming to the U.S. from Afghanistan, including donating airline miles and volunteering transport.
DUMB AND INEVITABLE
People online are measuring supposed vaccine status. Pfizer leads, Moderna is second. And if you had the Johnson & Johnson or AstraZeneca jabs, sorry, you’re not even in the race.
TEA IS SERVED
Tim Teeman and Tom Sykes, the team behind The Daily Beast’s Royalist newsletter and royal coverage, held a Zoom Live to make sense of what we all heard in the Oprah interview.
SIGNS FOR HOPE
Even against the deadly South African variant, the vaccines are having an impact, White House COVID adviser Andy Slavitt says.
opinion
THREE STRIKES
Biden said that he'd made a “mistake.” My family has paid for it.
BEAST BEAST
I wasn’t planning on adopting a dog internationally, but after a few weeks Cannoli flew from Korea to be mine. Here’s why I—and many other Americans—got our pets from overseas.
THEY DO
In a COVID-19 world, the former wedding rules—large venues, long guest list, and packed dance floor—do not apply. Will “microweddings” and “minimonies” become the norm?