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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...
When a colleague first shared the announced headliners for this summer’s Great American State Fair concert series on the National Mall, my first...
In its initial phases, the 2026 Los Angeles mayoral contest was as low-key (bordering on boring) as the parallel California gubernatorial race. Mayor...
In 1972, Dr. Press Robinson Sr. decided to run for the school board in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. A chemistry professor at Southern...
One minor-yet-persistent irritation of the second Trump administration is that there are constantly new First Family members you’re expected to know...
On January 22, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jared Kushner presented a “Master Plan” for the future of Gaza. Kushner’s...
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...
New Yorkers are still riding high after the Knicks soundly defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday and booked their first appearance in the NBA...
When Disney settled with Donald Trump for $15 million over his defamation suit against ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos, the corporate maneuver was...
Steven Rosenbaum started writing his book The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality in 2022, around when ChatGPT launched. Initially he didn’t...
A smiling Mayor Mamdani was in full cheerful-salesman mode when he invited journalists to City Hall to discuss “Block by Block,” his...
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...
The JPMorgan saga involving a former banker accusing a colleague of allegedly drugging and sexual assaulting him took another strange turn on Tuesday,...
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...
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...
There was never any chance Donald Trump would self-correct his gleeful political abuse of the Justice Department. And despite initial hopes that Todd...
When Donald Trump dropped his shock endorsement of controversial Texas attorney general Ken Paxton against four-term Republican Senator John Cornyn a...
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...
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...
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...
Going into the midterms, the bipartisan backlash against AI gives Democrats a number of politically attractive options. They can try to tap into the...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
Less than four months from now, early voting begins in the 2026 midterm general elections. Political scientists differ on exactly when voting...
This week, the Justice Department announced that President Trump intended to settle his unprecedented $10 billion lawsuit against the U.S. Treasury...
Complaints among Democratic activists and influencers over the DNC’s decision to abort its 2024 “autopsy report” was based on a craving for two...
Justice Thurgood Marshall did not dissent from the bench in Mobile v. Bolden, the fractured 1980 decision that interpreted the Constitution and the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Over the last three years, Democratic Party support for Israel has undergone a dramatic reversal. In 2024, 18 Democratic senators backed a measure to...
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...
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. That’s who the U.S. and Israel reportedly planned to install atop Iran’s decapitated regime. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the...
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...
Six states held primaries on May 19 in what some observers called a “mini–Super Tuesday.” The headline contest was in Kentucky, where hardcore...
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...
Quick: Which of President Donald Trump’s second-term executive orders currently threatens to do the most damage to our collective political order?...
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...
Two years ago, after the multibillion-dollar disaster known as the Metaverse failed to take off, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expressed confidence that...
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...
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...
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...
Over the last decade, the tradwife has become unavoidable. She haunts our screens in The Testaments, in Mormon reality shows, in TikToks and on...
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...
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...
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...
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...