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Michael Hainey

Michael Hainey


Michael Hainey is a Writer at Large for AIR MAIL and co-hosts AIR MAIL’s weekly podcast, Morning Meeting, alongside Deputy Editor Ashley Baker. His first job was for Spy magazine, and most recently he was the Deputy Editor of GQ. Hainey, who lives in New York, is the author of After Visiting Friends: A Son’s Story.

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A Very British Scandal—and Why It Could Cripple The Washington Post

On this week’s podcast, Nick Davies reveals new discoveries about the phone-hacking scandal that has rocked the U.K.—and why Jeff Bezos might soon find himself in an awkward position

Billionaires Behaving Badly: The Summer Edition

On this week’s podcast, William D. Cohan reports from Nantucket

When Gen Z Discovered Dubya

On this week’s podcast, Carolina de Armas and Paulina Prosnitz explain why Gen Z thinks George W. Bush is so cool

Love in the Time of Content Creators

On this week’s podcast, Cazzie David tells us how Gen Z has taken all the fun out of wedding proposals

Inside the Great Canadian Gold Heist

On this week’s podcast, Harold von Kursk reports on one of the most audacious robberies ever

Gwyneth Paltrow: Triumph of a Mean Girl?

On this week’s podcast, go inside the new biography of her royal Goopness

What J.F.K. Could Teach Trump About Lying and Deceit

On this week’s podcast, the author of a new book on Kennedy looks at the character question

The Grift of His Friendship

On this week’s podcast, Jane Boon reveals the man she thought she knew … but didn’t

Who Was Thomas Crooks?

On this week’s podcast, Rich Cohen looks at the Trump shooting, one year later, and the mysteries around the gunman

When Robert Evans Got High on Himself

On this week’s podcast, James Sikura takes us behind the scenes of the Hollywood producer’s bizarre anti-drug special

The Island of Jared Kushner

On this week’s podcast, a look at the latest hustle from Trump’s son-in-law: a luxury resort with poisonous snakes

Save Venice! Inside the Bezos-Sánchez Wedding

On this week’s podcast, Stuart Heritage reports on what to expect at the bridezilla-iest wedding ever

Forget Roy Cohn. William F. Buckley Jr. Is the True Dark Knight of the Right

On this week’s podcast, Sam Tanenhaus reveals how the writer set the agenda for Trump’s presidency

Billionaire Boys’ Golf Club

On this week’s podcast, William D. Cohan reports on the latest power move for .01-percenters

Inside the Sexual-Abuse Scandal That’s Shocked Italy

On this week’s podcast, Elena Clavarino looks at how a scion of one of Venice’s storied families went bad

When a Billionaire Buys Your General Store

On this week’s podcast, Carrie Monahan looks at the latest oddity among the 0.1-percenters on Long Island’s East End

Save America—Deport Lorne Michaels!

On this week’s podcast, David Kamp discusses his modest proposal to return sanity to America

The First $100 Million and the First 100 Days

On this week’s podcast, Jacob Silverman details Trump’s epic grift

Taylor Swift, Harvard M.B.A.?

On this week’s podcast, Kevin Evers reveals the business insights we all can steal from Tay-Tay

“Brad Pitt’s” Kidney Transplant and the French Divorcée

On this week’s podcast, Mark Seal explains how amateur sleuths busted a multi-national cyber-scam

Another Reason to Hate on the Ivy League and Nepo Babies!

On this week’s podcast, Andrew Zucker looks at the Versailles-level housing being built for super-rich kids

Inside the Danny Elfman Sexual-Harassment Story

On this week’s podcast, Jacob Bernstein discusses his reporting on the #MeToo case that has baffled Hollywood

Mobbed Up: The Two Faces of Robert De Niro

On this week’s podcast, Michael Sragow takes us inside the new mobster movie from Nick Pileggi and Barry Levinson

Is Savannah, Georgia, the Next Chernobyl?

On this week’s podcast, John von Sothen reveals the bizarre story of Savannah and a missing nuclear bomb