Air Mail is a digital weekly newsletter launched in July 2019 by former Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Graydon Carter and former New York Times reporter Alessandra Stanley. It provides articles on a wide range of subjects, including politics, environment, art, literature, style, fashion, and high-end crime, by some of the world’s finest journalists.

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Bill Rasmussen wasn’t trying to revolutionize media. Or sports. He was just trying to get to his daughter’s sweet-16 party. Bill and his 22-year-old son, Scott, were 30 minutes into a five-hour drive and already parked on I-84 West in a traffic jam on a sweltering August 1978 weekend.

Confined to an un-air-conditioned Mazda GLC, Bill was three months removed from getting fired … from two jobs. Scott was growing testy as Bill pitched ideas for a new venture he’d been considering after, on a lark, acquiring rights to a recently launched RCA transponder that enabled 24-7 broadcasting via satellite.

“I knew there was value but wasn’t sure what to broadcast.... Scott was getting tired of my pitches,” Bill recalls. “We had decided we weren’t going to talk business that day ’cause we were getting mad at each other,” Scott says. “So at one point I burst out: ‘I don’t care what you do with it, Dad. It’s your transponder—show football all weekend, see if I care.’” Jackpot.

Bill Keenan shares the untold story of how a father-son duo created ESPN, sports programming’s North Star, on a wing, a prayer, and a chunk of Getty cash—and walked out with almost nothing.

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In a couple of different races during the 1970s, three partners at the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison ran as Democrats for U.S. senator from New York. None of them won a seat, but their efforts offered a clue about the kind of people who worked at the firm. Paul, Weiss was the definition, the epitome, of the civic-minded law firm. 

Not anymore. The world of Big Law has been transformed into one where attorneys often switch firms. There’s no longer any such thing as a WASP law firm or a Jewish firm—not even a Black or white firm—because the only color that matters now is green. Paul, Weiss, where a top partner can now make $25 million a year, is still a storied place; it’s just that the story is a different one than it used to be. Jeffrey Toobin, an alumnus, reports how the law firm became a soulless moneymaker.

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It’s time to raise a glass—Jeremy King is back in business. The relentless restaurateur has reigned over London’s social life since 1981, when he opened Le Caprice, once a hub for London’s luminaries including Mick Jagger, Elizabeth Taylor, and Princess Diana. Now, King is reopening under the original roof—while businessman Richard Caring is using the Le Caprice name for a restaurant of his own. Ashley Baker shares the tale of the two Le Caprices.

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