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The Knicks Will Have to Do This the Hard Way

So much was swirling above Madison Square Garden before game three of the NBA Finals Monday night that you half expected a dimensional portal to...

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Will Leitch

Won’t Somebody Let Kevin O’Leary Build an AI Data Center?

It doesn’t take a business mogul on the level of a Shark Tank judge to know that data centers make up an enormous chunk of America’s economic...

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Matt Stieb, Adam K. Raymond, And Chas Danner

Trump to Make Magical New York Experience Highly Unpleasant

The New York Knicks hope to continue their dream playoff run and go up 3-0 over the San Antonio Spurs at game three of the NBA Finals in Madison...

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Nia Prater

Scott Pelley Wants Bari Weiss Removed and ‘Sanity’ Restored at 60 Minutes

One recurring charge leveled by ousted 60 Minutes correspondents is that the Bari Weiss–led regime at CBS News has tried to inject political bias...

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Michael Calderone

Corporate America Is Experiencing AI Sticker Shock

For a couple of years, the main problem AI firms had was convincing people — or, more specifically, people in charge of companies — to pay for...

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John Herrman

Tim Miller Wants Everyone to Be Angry About Trump

Tim Miller is thriving as an apostate. A onetime Republican campaign veteran — he served as Jeb Bush’s communications director in 2016 — Miller...

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Benjamin Hart

If Trump Isn’t Asleep, Maybe He Should Keep His Eyes Open?

Donald Trump won the last presidential election, in part, by successfully taunting “Sleepy Joe” Biden for his decrepitude. So it’s pretty...

05.06.2026 2

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Margaret Hartmann

Trump’s Job Approval Is Weakest on the Midterms’ Key Issue

The single most important measurable variable affecting the outcome of the 2026 midterm elections is likely the president’s job-approval ratings,...

05.06.2026 8

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Ed Kilgore

Knicks Finals Tickets Surge Into $100,000 Territory

Knicks mania is sweeping New York City, and with it comes the psychosis that some people say you would have to be experiencing to spend more than...

05.06.2026 0

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Bess levin

The Housing-Crisis Pitfall Mamdani Must Avoid

Mayor Zohran Mamdani needs to make some big changes before moving forward with the City Council’s well-intentioned but flawed effort to steer more...

05.06.2026 4

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Errol Louis

Knives Out for Morris Katz

Over the weekend, Democrats around the country were in a panic. Graham Platner, their presumptive nominee for a Maine Senate seat that is the linchpin...

04.06.2026 10

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David Freedlander

The Weird, Superstar-Free French Open Is Totally Thrilling

For over two decades, men’s tennis has been defined by something of a paradox: electrifying predictability. Starting with Roger Federer in 2003, a...

04.06.2026 8

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Benjamin Hart

More Than a Dozen Colleges Are Quietly Crossing the $100,000 Mark This Year

In the fall of 2005, I visited Bates College, a small liberal-arts school 40 miles north of Portland, Maine, which that year had the distinction of...

04.06.2026 9

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Jeffrey Selingo

Steve Kroft Says the 60 Minutes We’ve Known ‘No Longer Exists’

The meltdown at 60 Minutes has transfixed the media world this week, as CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss fired deeply respected staffers and...

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Michael Calderone

Iowa Republicans Reject Trump’s Pick for Governor

Donald Trump has been a powerhouse in 2026 midterm primaries, purging alleged RINOs like Bill Cassidy in Louisiana and stubborn rebels like Thomas...

03.06.2026 5

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Ed Kilgore

Bari Weiss Chooses War

In his termination letter to longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley on Tuesday, the show’s brand-new executive producer, Nick Bilton,...

03.06.2026 3

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Charlotte Klein

James Dolan’s Unlikely Redemption Arc

The James Dolan glare is a signature look of supreme disappointment. During bleak moments, he’ll sit slumped in a chair along the baseline at...

03.06.2026 3

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Chris Smith

The Fight to Free Ben & Jerry’s

One afternoon in Morningside Heights, toward the end of March, about a hundred socially conscious investors were getting fidgety. They’d convened in...

03.06.2026 3

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Carrie Battan

Scott Pelley Is Out at 60 Minutes

Scott Pelley, the longtime 60 Minutes correspondent, was fired on Tuesday, a day after confronting Nick Bilton, the program’s new leader, in...

02.06.2026 3

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Charlotte Klein

Would You Like That Video More If It Had Your Face in It?

Earlier this month, Spotify announced a new deal with Universal Music Group, the biggest of the big three, to add a feature “allowing fans to create...

02.06.2026 5

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John Herrman

Pentagon Bans Fat Troops From White House UFC

Are you a member of the U.S. military hoping to score tickets to the UFC fights being held on the White House lawn to celebrate President Trump’s...

02.06.2026 3

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Margaret Hartmann

11 Job Requirements Bill Pulte Met to Be Trump’s New DNI

With Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard departing the administration, President Donald Trump needed to find a new acting DNI to replace...

02.06.2026 2

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Chas Danner, Benjamin Hart, And Matt Stieb

The Right Kind of Pregnancy

Conservatives should have been pleased when Alex Cooper of Call Her Daddy announced her pregnancy this month. A famous blonde woman has married a man...

02.06.2026 7

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Sarah Jones

What You Need to Know to Hop on the Knicks Bandwagon

Not every team in the major professional sports leagues has won a championship since the Knicks last did, back in 1973, but it sure can feel that way....

02.06.2026 7

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Will Leitch

How FIFA Plays the Game

In late April, FIFA president Gianni Infantino convened soccer potentates from six continents in the Canadian city of Vancouver for a grandiose event,...

02.06.2026 7

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Andrew Rice

California Governor’s Primary Closes As a 3-Way Brawl

There have been plenty of dramatic story lines in the contest to choose a successor to term-limited California governor Gavin Newsom, from the sudden...

01.06.2026 8

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Ed Kilgore

6 Good Questions in Light of Platner’s Sexting Scandal

A few weeks ago, the New York Times published an interview with Maine’s scandal-plagued but resilient Democratic Senate candidate, Graham Platner,...

01.06.2026 8

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Chas Danner, Benjamin Hart, And Matt Stieb

How a Federal Judge Is Blowing Up Trump’s Slush Fund

The end has begun for Donald Trump’s universally reviled $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” slush fund, and now it’s only a matter of time...

01.06.2026 6

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Elie Honig

Platner Tries to Find Someone to Blame for Latest Scandal

There have been moments when Graham Platner’s first-time Maine Senate campaign has felt undeniable and moments when it has felt untenable. The...

01.06.2026 7

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Nia Prater

Why Democrats Shouldn’t Write Off the South

Twenty years ago, after two presidential elections in which George W. Bush won every electoral vote in the former Confederate states, there was a...

01.06.2026 20

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Ed Kilgore

Knicks Diehards Wrestle With Attending Finals or Cashing In

Brian Rivel’s first seats as a New York Knicks season ticket holder 35 years ago were up in the Madison Square Garden rafters, beneath championship...

01.06.2026 7

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Tom kludt

Andy Kim Wants Delaney Hall to Outrage You

Delaney Hall, a federal immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, has been the site of escalating clashes in recent days as demonstrators...

01.06.2026 10

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Nia Prater

Why the Oklahoma City Thunder Are a Deserving Villain

If you have been following this year’s NBA playoffs and, like me, prefer to do so in the company of your fellow armchair-pundits on social media...

30.05.2026 10

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Jake Nevins

Trump’s Great American State Fair Is Running Out of Acts

When a colleague first shared the announced headliners for this summer’s Great American State Fair concert series on the National Mall, my first...

29.05.2026 9

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Chas Danner, Benjamin Hart, And Matt Stieb

A Reality Check on Spencer Pratt’s L.A. Mayoral Run

In its initial phases, the 2026 Los Angeles mayoral contest was as low-key (bordering on boring) as the parallel California gubernatorial race. Mayor...

29.05.2026 9

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Ed Kilgore

The Civil-Rights Veterans Watching Their Victories Wiped Out

In 1972, Dr. Press Robinson Sr. decided to run for the school board in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. A chemistry professor at Southern...

29.05.2026 9

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Zak Cheney-Rice

Who Is Bettina Anderson? Don Jr.’s Socialite Wife, Explained

One minor-yet-persistent irritation of the second Trump administration is that there are constantly new First Family members you’re expected to know...

29.05.2026 9

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Margaret Hartmann

The Plot to Eliminate Gaza

On January 22, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jared Kushner presented a “Master Plan” for the future of Gaza. Kushner’s...

29.05.2026 10

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Mohammed R. Mhawish

How Nick Bilton Took the Helm at 60 Minutes

Nick Bilton recently flew to New York to meet with director Martin Scorsese to discuss the screenplay he adapted from his forthcoming book with Dwayne...

28.05.2026 9

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Michael Calderone

A Brief Investigation Into Trump’s Knicks Fandom

New Yorkers are still riding high after the Knicks soundly defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday and booked their first appearance in the NBA...

28.05.2026 10

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Nia Prater

The Trump Admin Democrat Urging Media to ‘Stiffen Its Spine’

When Disney settled with Donald Trump for $15 million over his defamation suit against ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos, the corporate maneuver was...

28.05.2026 9

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Michael Calderone

Nonfiction Book Publishers Aren’t Remotely Ready for AI

Steven Rosenbaum started writing his book The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality in 2022, around when ChatGPT launched. Initially he didn’t...

28.05.2026 10

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Charlotte Klein

How Mamdani Plans to Solve New York’s Most Pressing Problem

A smiling Mayor Mamdani was in full cheerful-salesman mode when he invited journalists to City Hall to discuss “Block by Block,” his...

28.05.2026 10

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Errol Louis

The Degenerates of the Drone Stock Bubble

Late last summer, the founders of a small company in Ukraine that made software to manage swarms of drones were weighing whether to work with Erik...

28.05.2026 10

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Sharon Weinberger

The JPMorgan ‘Sex Slave’ Accuser Needs a New Lawyer

The JPMorgan saga involving a former banker accusing a colleague of allegedly drugging and sexual assaulting him took another strange turn on Tuesday,...

27.05.2026 10

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Bess levin

Iran War in Another Confusing Endgame, Maybe: Live Updates

The Iran war has reached yet another confusing potential endgame, maybe, after the U.S. and Iran seemed to near an agreement of some kind over the...

27.05.2026 10

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Intelligencer Staff

Can Democrats Seize the Anti-Interventionist Vote?

This spring, in the weeks after U.S. bombs hit Iran, Maryland Democratic senator Chris Van Hollen found his party’s stance on the war...

27.05.2026 10

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Jasper Craven

Todd Blanche Is in a Tricky Spot

There was never any chance Donald Trump would self-correct his gleeful political abuse of the Justice Department. And despite initial hopes that Todd...

27.05.2026 10

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Elie Honig

Paxton Crushes Cornyn as Texas GOP Embraces MAGA Extremism

When Donald Trump dropped his shock endorsement of controversial Texas attorney general Ken Paxton against four-term Republican Senator John Cornyn a...

27.05.2026 20

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Ed Kilgore

Don Jr. & Bettina Anderson’s Wedding: Top Snubs & Surprises

Donald Trump Jr. and Bettina Anderson got married on a private island in the Bahamas on Saturday, May 23. This was a bit of a surprise. First, Don...

26.05.2026 10

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Margaret Hartmann