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5 Big Questions for Sports in 2026

After a year in which the U.S. sports business absolutely boomed — ratings up everywhere, billion-dollar rights deals signed one after another,...

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Will Leitch

2025’s Biggest Political Losers

2025 was a strange year in politics, with a lot of unexpected twists and turns. The second Trump administration began like a bat out of hell but...

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Ed Kilgore

Eric Adams and His Aides Are Not Out of Legal Trouble

Eric Adams is making the most of his last moments in office. He’s hopscotching the world — Mexico, Israel, Albania, Uzbekistan — and talking up his...

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Noah Shachtman

Trump Started 2025 Strong, Then His Approval Rating Crashed

While Donald Trump’s claims of a landslide victory and a huge mandate in 2024 were always ridiculous, he did begin his second term with some of the...

24.12.2025 3

Ed Kilgore

The 10 Most Compelling Sports Stories of 2025

I have been obsessed with sports for more than 40 years and writing about them professionally for more than 20, and I think I watched more sports...

24.12.2025 10

Will Leitch

Vance Rebrands MAGA Revenge As a Christian Crusade

When J.D. Vance arrived in Phoenix to make a speech concluding Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest 2025 conference, he had a challenge and an...

23.12.2025 10

Ed Kilgore

Bari Weiss Is in a Lonely Place

Bari Weiss is long past her supposed free speech era. The Free Press founder and CBS News editor-in-chief recently yanked a 60 Minutes segment from...

23.12.2025 2

Ross Barkan

Is the Economy Great or Terrible?

Torsten Slok may be the only economist whose work is routinely described as a banger — as in “another banger of a chart from Torsten Slok!” —...

23.12.2025 2

Jen Wieczner

Supreme Court Finally Reins In Trump’s Use of National Guard

More often than not in 2025, when the U.S. Supreme Court issued one of its highly procedural “shadow docket” emergency orders involving Donald...

23.12.2025 2

Ed Kilgore

Did Epstein Really Send Larry Nassar a Suicide Note?

The new batch of Epstein files released in recent days didn’t contain anything that explosive. We saw some new shirtless photos of Bill Clinton,...

23.12.2025 10

Margaret Hartmann

What Did Eric Adams Build?

Review Eric Adams’s public statements this year, and you will learn from his comms team that he is the most pro-housing mayor in history. “Mayor...

23.12.2025 1

Christopher Bonanos

Intelligencer’s 20 Most-Read Stories in 2025

In 2025, it felt like we simultaneously took a leap into the future and were hurtled back a few decades. So it’s no surprise that Intelligencer...

22.12.2025 5

Intelligencer Staff

Candace Owens Wants You to Think She’s a Moderate Now

This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. This summer, the podcaster Candace Owens says, she had a pair of...

22.12.2025 30

Brock Colyar

This Trump-Epstein Photo Wasn’t Fishy — Until DOJ Deleted It

President Trump does not seem to be furious at Attorney General Pam Bondi or anyone else at the top of the Justice Department for the Epstein-files...

22.12.2025 2

Margaret Hartmann

Why Did Bari Weiss Pull the 60 Minutes CECOT Segment?

For the past few months, all eyes have been on CBS News as the landmark network has undergone massive changes following the merger of parent...

22.12.2025 2

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5 Big Questions for Sports in 2026

Will Leitch

2025’s Biggest Political Losers

Ed Kilgore

Eric Adams and His Aides Are Not Out of Legal Trouble

Noah Shachtman

Trump Started 2025 Strong, Then His Approval Rating Crashed

Ed Kilgore

The 10 Most Compelling Sports Stories of 2025

Will Leitch

Vance Rebrands MAGA Revenge As a Christian Crusade

Ed Kilgore

Bari Weiss Is in a Lonely Place

Ross Barkan

Is the Economy Great or Terrible?

Jen Wieczner

Supreme Court Finally Reins In Trump’s Use of National Guard

Ed Kilgore

Did Epstein Really Send Larry Nassar a Suicide Note?

Margaret Hartmann

What Did Eric Adams Build?

Christopher Bonanos

Intelligencer’s 20 Most-Read Stories in 2025

Intelligencer Staff

Candace Owens Wants You to Think She’s a Moderate Now

Brock Colyar

This Trump-Epstein Photo Wasn’t Fishy — Until DOJ Deleted It

Margaret Hartmann

Why Did Bari Weiss Pull the 60 Minutes CECOT Segment?

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