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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Margaret Hartmann

The Pope’s AI Warning Comes at Just the Right Time

One strange feature of the last few years of AI discourse has been spiritual vocabulary creeping into the speech of secular leaders. CEOs, VCs, and...

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John Herrman

All the Pain Was Worth It

One of the more amusing videos to come out in the wake of the New York Knicks’ thrashing of the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday night, which completed...

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Will Leitch

Republicans Are Lost in the AI Wilderness

Going into the midterms, the bipartisan backlash against AI gives Democrats a number of politically attractive options. They can try to tap into the...

26.05.2026 6

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John Herrman

The Big Little Penis Panic

“God blessed me in a lot of ways except for one,” Jon, a 30-year-old aspiring actor, tells me one night in April over dinner. “He made me big in...

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Brock Colyar

How Ukraine Put Russia on the Back Foot in Year 5 of the War

Iran, not Ukraine, is currently at the center of America’s volatile foreign policy. But while the U.S. has shifted its focus elsewhere, Ukraine has...

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Benjamin Hart

The World’s First Work-From-Home Football Coach

Most football offensive coordinators rise early on game day but not as early as Max Campbell, who is up hours before sunrise. That’s not because of...

24.05.2026 6

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Adam Elder

The SpaceX IPO Reveals What Really Happened to Twitter

If you want to know what has happened to Twitter, the app and the website, in the past few years, you can just open up X and see for yourself. Like...

23.05.2026 10

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John Herrman

Trump Is Becoming the Un-Populist

Less than four months from now, early voting begins in the 2026 midterm general elections. Political scientists differ on exactly when voting...

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Ed Kilgore

Trump’s Weaponization Slush Fund Is ‘Completely Insane’

This week, the Justice Department announced that President Trump intended to settle his unprecedented $10 billion lawsuit against the U.S. Treasury...

22.05.2026 10

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Nia Prater

Autopsy Report Shows Democrats Really Are in Disarray

Complaints among Democratic activists and influencers over the DNC’s decision to abort its 2024 “autopsy report” was based on a craving for two...

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Ed Kilgore

Louisiana v. Callais Belongs in Supreme Court’s Anti-canon

Justice Thurgood Marshall did not dissent from the bench in Mobile v. Bolden, the fractured 1980 decision that interpreted the Constitution and the...

22.05.2026 5

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Cristian Farias

Ken Paxton’s Campaign May Have Been Saved by Staffer’s Joke

On Tuesday afternoon, Donald Trump dropped a last-minute endorsement in the GOP’s Texas Senate primary, giving the nod to MAGA stalwart Ken Paxton...

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Ben Jacobs

SpaceX Warns of Mass Extinction in Eye-Popping IPO Pitch

After years of operating in relative darkness for a company of its size and ambitions, Elon Musk’s SpaceX finally pulled back the curtain on...

21.05.2026 8

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Bess levin

The Race to Be the Face of Manhattan Is Extremely Tight

On June 23, New Yorkers will finally cast their ballots in midterm primary elections. A series of new polls from Emerson College and PIX 11 are...

21.05.2026 9

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Nia Prater

Biotech Barbie Had a Hard Year

At 3:30 p.m. on a Friday, Cathy Tie sat in Carnegie Hall, wearing a pink sweatsuit bedazzled with cherries, eating a gyro. Tonight was her...

21.05.2026 7

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Elizabeth Weil

The Man Who Explains Israel to John Fetterman

Over the last three years, Democratic Party support for Israel has undergone a dramatic reversal. In 2024, 18 Democratic senators backed a measure to...

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Alex Shultz

Mamdani Puts Off the Pain — for Now

We won’t know for sure until the state budget is officially closed in the next few days, but it seems clear Mayor Zohran Mamdani did an...

21.05.2026 10

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Errol Louis

Trump’s Iran Regime-Change Plan Was Crazier Than We Realized

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. That’s who the U.S. and Israel reportedly planned to install atop Iran’s decapitated regime. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the...

20.05.2026 9

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Chas Danner, Benjamin Hart, And Matt Stieb

Trump Mobile Phone Beats Expectations By Actually Existing

Are the Trump boys actually business geniuses? The short answer is no, absolutely not. The long answer is still no, but Donald Trump Jr. and Eric...

20.05.2026 10

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Margaret Hartmann

Trump Gets Revenge on Massie, But Primary May Haunt GOP

Six states held primaries on May 19 in what some observers called a “mini–Super Tuesday.” The headline contest was in Kentucky, where hardcore...

20.05.2026 10

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Ed Kilgore

Why the Amish Are Falling in Love With AI

It’s Sunday afternoon in the heart of Ohio Amish country, and after driving their horse and buggy home from church, the Wengerd family is teasing...

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Erik German

Trump’s Worst Executive Order Yet Is Hiding in Plain Sight

Quick: Which of President Donald Trump’s second-term executive orders currently threatens to do the most damage to our collective political order?...

20.05.2026 9

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Elie Honig

Trump Says Ballroom Is His ‘Gift’ While Demanding $1 Billion

From the very start, Donald Trump has framed the White House ballroom as a generous gift from him to the American people. The president’s initial...

19.05.2026 10

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Margaret Hartmann

Meta Employees Brace for the Ax to Fall in AI Pivot

Two years ago, after the multibillion-dollar disaster known as the Metaverse failed to take off, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expressed confidence that...

19.05.2026 6

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Matt Stieb, Adam K. Raymond, And Chas Danner

Trump’s Texas Endorsement Is Great for Paxton — and Talarico

Two days into early voting in the Texas runoff that ends May 26 and after months of teasing his choice, Donald Trump endorsed Texas Attorney General...

19.05.2026 10

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Ed Kilgore

The Billionaire Who Wired San Francisco

Chris Larsen, co-founder of the crypto company Ripple Labs and the 252nd-richest person on the planet, is studiously unostentatious. He speaks in an...

19.05.2026 10

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Lauren Smiley

The SpaceX IPO Could Make Elon Musk a Trillionaire

Elon Musk’s rocketship-AI company SpaceX is expected to go public on June 12, and when it does, the richest man in the world hopes investors will...

19.05.2026 10

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Bess levin

The Relentless Fantasy of the Tradwife

Over the last decade, the tradwife has become unavoidable. She haunts our screens in The Testaments, in Mormon reality shows, in TikToks and on...

19.05.2026 10

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Sarah Jones

Why Did Trump Post a Sexy Captured-Alien Image? 4 Theories.

There was a time in the not-too-distant past when you’d only encounter images of the president hanging with aliens at the checkout counter, tucked...

18.05.2026 10

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Margaret Hartmann

Mamdani’s Enemies Find Their Talking Point

For months, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s opponents have looked for ways to knock him down a peg. They tried calling him an antisemite. They tried calling...

18.05.2026 10

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David Freedlander

Kamala Harris Didn’t Lose Because of Rogan or Gaza

At this point, the 2024 Democratic autopsy has taken on something of a mystical air. The still-unreleased report was meant to provide a comprehensive...

18.05.2026 10

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Benjamin Hart

No One Loves This 22-Foot Gold Statue As Much As Trump Does

As we have previously established, the recently erected 22-foot golden statue of Donald Trump is not a false idol. But are people gathering around...

15.05.2026 10

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Margaret Hartmann