A new podcast from Vogue and Vanity Fair culture journalist Michelle Ruiz about the sexiest stories in news. Michelle has been reading smut since she was definitely too young to be reading smut. She grew up to be a Cosmo sex editor and believes fading to black is criminal. At her first job at ABC News, an editor referred to a story as “sexy” - not in the literal sense, but the kind that's juicy, colorful and complicated, maybe a little salacious and gossipy. In addition to the actual smut of our times, those are the kind of all-consuming stories and people she'll get into on The Smut.