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There was a time, not very long ago, when Ben Shapiro could reasonably call himself the king of all conservative media. His company, the Daily Wire,...
New York University’s Jonathan Haidt checks a number of boxes for an in-house commencement speaker: best-selling author, public intellectual, and...
Last month’s preannouncement of Anthropic’s Mythos, an unreleased AI model that the company warns is extraordinarily good at finding and...
America’s oldest and most prestigious university may soon be deliberately taking many of its students down a notch. This week, Harvard faculty...
Donald Trump landed in Beijing this morning for a two-day, high-stakes China summit — and he brought a clown car’s worth of delegates from the...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has grown used to batting away chatter that she wants to run for higher office. “I’m trying not to speculate and...
The evidence against would-be presidential assassin Cole Tomas Allen is overwhelming. Dozens of people saw him run through the Washington Hilton hotel...
We’ve all been there: You’re in some dull meeting and you’re fighting to keep your eyes open because you stayed up too late attacking your...
In the first two weeks of testimony in Elon Musk’s $134 billion lawsuit against Sam Altman, witnesses made some troubling remarks about the OpenAI...
President Donald Trump has complained for months about the media’s coverage of the Iran war, telling reporters in April that “if you read the New...
Banking giant JPMorgan has been home to many of Wall Street’s biggest scandals over the past 20 years, which include but are absolutely not limited...
Nobody quite saw last week’s deal between Anthropic and xAI coming, but as soon as it was announced, it was suddenly overdetermined. Of course...
Amira is listening to the kindergarteners read aloud. Her flowy purple hair and her big green scarf frame her face as she teaches the children to read...
When you were growing up, some well-meaning adult probably told you bullies are just insecure. Studies suggest that’s actually not accurate, but it...
One spring afternoon in 2022, Leslie was home alone in Park Slope with her 15-year-old son, Hunter. She asked him to clean his room, or take a shower,...
President Donald Trump’s most consistent, and perhaps most compelling, justification for choosing to go to war with Iran was the “imminent...
Is this really the best California Democrats can come up with? That question has hovered over this year’s gubernatorial race, in which the state’s...
Republicans from Donald Trump on down are excited that the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Louisiana v. Callais has invited a wave of partisan...
There’s a good argument to be made that Mayor Zohran Mamdani should not have gone to war with Ken Griffin, the hedge-fund billionaire and one of the...
What’s stopping you from celebrating America’s 250th birthday by loading your whole family in the car and road-tripping across this great nation?...
In a decision that caps a disastrous ten days for Democrats struggling to offset Republican congressional gerrymanders, a 4-3 majority of the Virginia...
When James Comey appears in federal court in North Carolina on Monday, it’ll mostly be about housekeeping. The parties will set schedules for...
The prediction-market industry has a lot of reasons to be optimistic right now. It’s growing extremely quickly, multiplying many times in size since...
It says a lot about our current president that in response to the news that a giant gold statue of Donald Trump was dedicated this week, you have to...
Spirit Airlines, the ultra-low-cost flyer that shut down operations last weekend, was often the butt of jokes. As a frequent Spirit flyer, this meant...
In an effort to smooth relations with Pope Leo XIV and Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni, the Trump administration is sending its best. Not...
An outbreak of the rare and dangerous hantavirus aboard the Dutch-flagged cruise ship MV Hondius has left three passengers dead, forced the medical...
When Donald Trump furiously ordered his minions to find and fund primary challenges to seven Indiana Republican state senators who refused to conduct...
On the heels of FBI director Kash Patel filing a $250 million defamation suit against the Atlantic, MS NOW reported Wednesday that his agency is now...
It has been more than nine weeks since President Trump started his war with Iran, and somehow he’s still keeping everyone guessing — about whether...
The recent gutting of the 1965 Voting Rights Act by the Supreme Court’s conservative majority will injure American democracy in ways that go far...
It was early spring 2024, and at an overlit food court in an Atlantic City casino called Resorts, a group of poker dealers was holed up at a table...
At this moment in his second term, it’s very difficult to find bright spots for Donald Trump — other than the perpetual loyalty of his MAGA base...
A white male New York Times employee filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging the paper had discriminated against...
This has to be the year, doesn’t it? The last time the Knicks made the NBA Finals was 1999, when their current star point guard was two years old...
Every generation has it tough, but some are more burdened than others. Consider the millions of newly minted college graduates entering a labor market...
A year ago, Zohran Mamdani may have been on the pavement outside Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Bushwick. The Brooklyn neighborhood, which ICE has...
Rudy Giuliani has been hospitalized and is in critical but stable condition. His spokesman, Ted Goodman, announced the news in a social-media post on...
President Donald Trump continues to insist the Iran war is essentially over after an April cease-fire agreement, but his order for the United States...
Harvey Weinstein?” the court-information officer repeated blankly when I asked for directions one morning — as if to say, “Are you sure?”...
In a blockbuster announcement last week, the United Arab Emirates announced that it would leave the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries...
The most important thing to know about the 12th Congressional District of New York is that it should not exist. Since time immemorial, Manhattan was...
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Louisiana v. Callais, much attention has been paid to its impact on the midterms and...
I should get this out of the way: I have no good reason to believe that Temu, the popular discount shopping app, is selling human meat disguised as...
On a Thursday in April, I headed to the north end of Yale’s campus and persuaded a passing fellow student to swipe me into a building. Fourteen...
Despite President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that his widely unpopular military misadventure in the Middle East is going great and ahead of...
The MAGA movement remains a dangerous force in American life, but it has never been weaker. Nobody embodies this dark impotence quite like Defense...
Welcome to the new age of insider trading. It’s not only for the Gordon Gekko–type Wall Street barons anymore; now it’s for the Jason Bournes,...
The only time that wine importer Victor O. Schwartz was in the same room with Donald Trump was during a lunch in the 1990s at Jean-Georges, the...
On Thursday morning, Maine Governor Janet Mills announced that she would suspend her struggling senate campaign. Mills’s decision was not a...