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Why Ben Shapiro’s Media Empire Is Collapsing

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,...

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Ross Barkan

Jonathan Haidt’s NYU Grad Speech Fittingly Became a Debate

New York University’s Jonathan Haidt checks a number of boxes for an in-house commencement speaker: best-selling author, public intellectual, and...

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Matt Stieb, Adam K. Raymond, And Chas Danner

Worried About AI? Here, Have Some AI.

Last month’s preannouncement of Anthropic’s Mythos, an unreleased AI model that the company warns is extraordinarily good at finding and...

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John Herrman

Getting Straight A’s at Harvard Might Not Be So Easy Anymore

America’s oldest and most prestigious university may soon be deliberately taking many of its students down a notch. This week, Harvard faculty...

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Chas Danner, Benjamin Hart, And Matt Stieb

Trump Touched Down in China With Elon Musk and Jensen Huang

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...

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Bess levin

House Democrats Must Think Bigger Than ‘We’re Not Trump’

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...

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Errol Louis

Something Weird Is Going On With Cole Allen’s Prosecution

The evidence against would-be presidential assassin Cole Tomas Allen is overwhelming. Dozens of people saw him run through the Washington Hilton hotel...

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Elie Honig

White House: Trump Didn’t Sleep, He Blinked (for 18 Seconds)

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...

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Margaret Hartmann

Musk Liked Showing Memes to Sam Altman Before Their Breakup

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...

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Matt Stieb, Adam K. Raymond, And Chas Danner

Trump’s DOJ Cracks Down on Iran Coverage

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...

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Michael Calderone

Get to Know the Banker Behind JPMorgan “Sex Slave” Claims

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...

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Bess levin

Musk and Amodei Are Burying the Hatchet in Sam Altman’s Back

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...

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John Herrman

Help! My Kindergarten Is All In on AI.

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...

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Matt Stieb, Adam K. Raymond, And Chas Danner

Trump Posts: Dear Diary, Why Is Supreme Court So Mean to Me?

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...

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Margaret Hartmann

The Quiet Shame of Fearing Your Own Child

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,...

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Julie brener davich

Has Trump Made the Threat of a Nuclear Iran Even Worse?

President Donald Trump’s most consistent, and perhaps most compelling, justification for choosing to go to war with Iran was the “imminent...

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Jonah Shepp

How California’s Governor’s Race Became Such an Unholy Mess

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...

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Benjamin Hart

Gerrymander Blitz Could Undo GOP Progress With Black Voters

Republicans from Donald Trump on down are excited that the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Louisiana v. Callais has invited a wave of partisan...

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Ed Kilgore

Why Zohran Mamdani Picked a Fight With Ken Griffin

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...

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Ross Barkan

Sean Duffy Filmed Reality Show Over Past Seven Months

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?...

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Margaret Hartmann

Virginia Court Blows Up Democrats’ 2026 Redistricting Gains

In a decision that caps a disastrous ten days for Democrats struggling to offset Republican congressional gerrymanders, a 4-3 majority of the Virginia...

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Ed Kilgore

Why the Jim Comey Prosecution Is About to Fall Apart (Again)

When James Comey appears in federal court in North Carolina on Monday, it’ll mostly be about housekeeping. The parties will set schedules for...

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Elie Honig

Kalshi and Polymarket Are Worried About Their Reputations

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...

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John Herrman

Gold 22-Foot Trump Statue Definitely Isn’t a False Idol

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...

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Margaret Hartmann

I Grew Up in Poverty. Spirit Airlines Was My Lifeline.

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...

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Vanessa Ogle

How J.D. Vance Remade the Catholic Right

In an effort to smooth relations with Pope Leo XIV and Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni, the Trump administration is sending its best. Not...

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Sarah Jones

What We Know About the Cruise Ship Hantavirus Outbreak

An outbreak of the rare and dangerous hantavirus aboard the Dutch-flagged cruise ship MV Hondius has left three passengers dead, forced the medical...

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Nia Prater

The Exquisite Timing of Trump’s Indiana Revenge Campaign

When Donald Trump furiously ordered his minions to find and fund primary challenges to seven Indiana Republican state senators who refused to conduct...

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Ed Kilgore

Kash Patel’s War Against the Atlantic Intensifies

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...

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Michael Calderone

Trump Still Thinks His Confusion Can Crush Iran

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...

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Chas Danner, Benjamin Hart, And Matt Stieb

The Awful Voting-Rights Decision Could Screw With NYC

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...

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Errol Louis

The NBA Player and the Gambler Who Needed Him

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...

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Jay Bulger

Trump’s Polling Is Getting Into George W. Bush Territory

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...

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Ed Kilgore

The White Man Crying Discrimination at the New York Times

A white male New York Times employee filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging the paper had discriminated against...

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Charlotte Klein

If the Knicks Don’t Make the NBA Finals, They’re Hopeless

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...

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Will Leitch

The Cursed Generation

Every generation has it tough, but some are more burdened than others. Consider the millions of newly minted college graduates entering a labor market...

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Ryu Spaeth

Mamdani Is Treading a Little Too Cautiously With the NYPD

A year ago, Zohran Mamdani may have been on the pavement outside Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Bushwick. The Brooklyn neighborhood, which ICE has...

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Ross Barkan

Trump’s Heartfelt Truth Tirade for Hospitalized Giuliani

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...

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Margaret Hartmann

Trump ‘Wants Action,’ May Restart Iran War

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...

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Nia Prater

Saying ‘Me Too’ in an Empty Courtroom

Harvey Weinstein?” the court-information officer repeated blankly when I asked for directions one morning — as if to say, “Are you sure?”...

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Irin Carmon

The Big OPEC Shakeup Is About a Lot More Than Oil

In a blockbuster announcement last week, the United Arab Emirates announced that it would leave the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries...

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Matt Stieb, Adam K. Raymond, And Chas Danner

The Race to Be the Face of Manhattan

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...

04.05.2026 10

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David Freedlander

What Democrats Can Do to Restore Voting Rights Post-Callais

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...

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Ed Kilgore

The Mystery of ‘Human Meat’ for Sale on Temu

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...

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John Herrman

Palantir Comes to Campus

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...

02.05.2026 10

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Alex Bronzini-Vender

Trump’s Iran War Is Now Officially Illegal

Despite President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that his widely unpopular military misadventure in the Middle East is going great and ahead of...

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Chas Danner, Benjamin Hart, And Matt Stieb

Nobody Embodies MAGA’s Clownish Menace Like Pete Hegseth

The MAGA movement remains a dangerous force in American life, but it has never been weaker. Nobody embodies this dark impotence quite like Defense...

01.05.2026 10

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Ross Barkan

Don’t Bet on a Prediction Market Insider Trading Crackdown

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,...

01.05.2026 10

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Elie Honig

How a Boomer-Lib Wine Importer Took Down Trump’s Tariffs

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...

01.05.2026 9

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Matt Stieb, Adam K. Raymond, And Chas Danner

Graham Platner Has Won the Battle. Can He Win the War?

On Thursday morning, Maine Governor Janet Mills announced that she would suspend her struggling senate campaign. Mills’s decision was not a...

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Benjamin Hart