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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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How to Stay Hip

A man who helped start Saturday Night Live has some advice (and it doesn’t involve cocaine!)

Ivana Trump, Rehab, and Me

Writer Ivana Lowell reveals what she learned from the woman who escaped Donald Trump

The Only Podcast You Need

How did menopause suddenly get so sexy? We’ve got answers. Plus, Errol Morris on Donald Trump

The Other Other Paris

Still trying to book a summer getaway? Here’s a city you need to discover

The Big Books of Summer

A smart list of hot titles you won’t want to miss

The Old Man

The Summer of Discontent for the .1 Percent

Their fancy private jets can’t land; they’re angry at an Eleven Madison Park co-founder … Life is very, very hard

“Defense Debbies” and the Rise of Gun-Loving Mothers

Thanks to Instagram, “arms and the woman” is a style statement

Will This Be the Perfect Italian Summer?

Mediterranean beaches unspoiled by oligarchs! (Well, almost … )

A Cold War Spy Caper

Moviemaker Whit Stillman on the story behind his story. Plus, Errol Morris stops by

The Man Behind Bob Marley

A conversation about Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records

Gen Z’s Hot New Drug

This week on the podcast, a closer look at kratom. Plus, would you pay $700 to eat some ants?

Inside the Hit Comedy Hacks

A look at what awaits Jean Smart in Season Two

Barbarians Inside the Gates

What happens when the junior staff at Goldman Sachs doesn’t want to go back to the office?

The Little House That Rocked L.A.

In the 1960s, Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward’s place in the hills was the center of an arts explosion

The Inside Story on Anna Wintour

You bring the coffee; we’ll bring the buzz

What Is Princess Di’s Brother Talking About?

It’s the Bridgerton effect. Everyone wants to cash in on the U.K.’s great estates

Will Prince Andrew Tank the Firm?

He’s desperately clinging to Mummy in public, and that’s not good for Charles and William

Can Love Actually Explain Putin’s Behavior?

How a rom-com just might help us understand a very troubled man …

What Really Happened Inside Hollywood’s Hottest Party

Confessions of (and dirt-dishing from) a Vanity Fair dilettante

A “Band of Brothers” Re-unites for Ukraine

Behind the story of the photojournalism greats who came out of retirement to take on Putin

A New Russian Dissident Speaks Up

Why some Russians are choosing to stay and protest, rather than flee

One Journalist Who Actually Stood Up to Trump

The truth about what happened the night The Donald got turned away from a Vanity Fair party

David Lynch Comes to Greenwich, Connecticut

A very twisted sex scandal, the invasion of Ukraine, and more in this week’s podcast