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America May Be Staring Down ‘Economic Armageddon’

America May Be Staring Down ‘Economic Armageddon’

Markets around the world plunged on Thursday after President Trump imposed harsh across-the-board tariffs, igniting a probable global trade war....

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Benjamin Hart

AOC Leads Schumer in Hypothetical 2028 Matchup, Says (Just One) Poll

AOC Leads Schumer in Hypothetical 2028 Matchup, Says (Just One) Poll

Last month, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer rebuffed criticism of his handling of the government-spending bill, arguing that averting a...

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Nia Prater

The Purpose of Trump’s Cruel Deportation Theater

The Purpose of Trump’s Cruel Deportation Theater

Donald Trump recaptured the White House by convincing voters to trust him on two issues: the economy and immigration. So far, the first is not...

yesterday 1

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Zak Cheney-Rice

Who Owns That Penthouse? Now No One Will Know.

Who Owns That Penthouse? Now No One Will Know.

For the past five years, in its slow and grinding way, the federal government labored to bring some sunlight into the shadowy realm of corporate...

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Andrew Rice

Trump Gives TikTok Another Extension

Trump Gives TikTok Another Extension

Donald Trump once again extended TikTok’s deadline to be sold, this time for an extra 75 days. “We hope to continue working in Good Faith with...

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Jason P. Frank

Will the Tariff Fiasco Screw Up Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill?

Will the Tariff Fiasco Screw Up Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill?

To those of us who have been closely watching the slow unfolding of Donald Trump’s legislative agenda in Congress, it all looks like a giant Jenga...

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Ed Kilgore

Will the Tariff Fiasco Screw Up Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’?

Will the Tariff Fiasco Screw Up Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’?

To those of us who have been closely watching the slow unfolding of Donald Trump’s legislative agenda in Congress, it all looks like a giant Jenga...

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Ed Kilgore

Trump on Tariffs: Relax, I’m ‘Purposely Crashing the Market’

Trump on Tariffs: Relax, I’m ‘Purposely Crashing the Market’

After President Trump announced sweeping tariffs this week, the financial markets saw their steepest one-day declines since 2020, Americans started...

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Margaret Hartmann

These Legal Agreements Are Trying to Live Forever

These Legal Agreements Are Trying to Live Forever

At any given time, there are a lot of people who are upset with Bryan Johnson, the very online guy who wants to live forever. The entrepreneur,...

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Matt Stieb

Trump’s Tariffs Might Help Amazon — and Hurt Its Customers

Trump’s Tariffs Might Help Amazon — and Hurt Its Customers

America’s top tech stocks plunged after Donald Trump’s tariff announcements, with the so-called Magnificent 7 — Nvidia, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft,...

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John Herrman

How Trump’s Tariffs Might Help Amazon — and Hurt Its Customers

How Trump’s Tariffs Might Help Amazon — and Hurt Its Customers

America’s top tech stocks plunged after Donald Trump’s tariff announcements, with the so-called Magnificent 7 — Nvidia, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft,...

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John Herrman

Trump’s War on Big Law

Trump’s War on Big Law

You’ll be forgiven if your heart isn’t breaking over the fate of the handful of elite law firms recently targeted by Donald Trump. So a few...

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Elie Honig

There’s Nothing Conservative About Trump 2.0

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Ed Kilgore

What Cory Booker Learned After Speaking for 25 Hours

What Cory Booker Learned After Speaking for 25 Hours

An adrift Democratic Party received a much-needed jolt of energy this week when Democratic senator Cory Booker took to the Senate floor to speak in...

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Nia Prater

Senate Republicans Decide Against Having a Real Budget

Senate Republicans Decide Against Having a Real Budget

Time is running out for House-Senate agreement on a congressional budget resolution necessary to “unlock” a future budget-reconciliation bill,...

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Ed Kilgore

Meghan Markle’s As Ever Is Selling an Identity Crisis

Meghan Markle’s As Ever Is Selling an Identity Crisis

Well before Meghan Markle’s As Ever products launched on April 2, it was clear that confusion was at the heart of her brand. Shouldn’t her jams and...

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Margaret Hartmann

Then They Came for People With Disabilities

Then They Came for People With Disabilities

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. In 1959, a teenage...

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Sarah Jones

Democrat Eric Adams to Run As Independent, Is Still Doomed

Democrat Eric Adams to Run As Independent, Is Still Doomed

After months of speculation about the status of his largely dormant and seemingly doomed reelection campaign, New York City mayor Eric Adams...

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Nia Prater

Donald Trump’s Tariff Blitz Is Political Suicide

Donald Trump’s Tariff Blitz Is Political Suicide

Give Donald Trump some credit: He is following through, absolutely, on a campaign promise. While few Americans imagined that electing Trump again...

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Ross Barkan

Trump’s Global Trade War Has Begun: Latest Updates and Consequences

Trump’s Global Trade War Has Begun: Latest Updates and Consequences

Buckle up. The fallout is well underway after tariff-obsessed President Donald Trump effectively declared a world trade war during his “Liberation...

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Intelligencer Staff

Let’s Game Out What a Trump Third Term Might Look Like

Let’s Game Out What a Trump Third Term Might Look Like

It’s time to consider the remote possibility that Donald Trump will attempt to violate the Constitution and seek a third term. In a recent...

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Ross Barkan

What Do Polls Say About Public Support for Trump’s Tariffs?

What Do Polls Say About Public Support for Trump’s Tariffs?

Experts’ reactions to President Trump’s big new protectionist push have been mostly negative. From economists, judgments have largely ranged from...

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Ed Kilgore

Mark Zuckerberg’s D.C. Mansion Is a 12-Minute Drive to the White House

Mark Zuckerberg’s D.C. Mansion Is a 12-Minute Drive to the White House

Mark Zuckerberg is the proud owner of a $23 million mansion in a nook of northwest Washington, D.C., directly across from the vice-presidential...

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Adriane Quinlan

Amid Deepening Malaise, Radhika Jones Leaves Vanity Fair

Amid Deepening Malaise, Radhika Jones Leaves Vanity Fair

Shortly after noon on Thursday, the staff at Vanity Fair received an email from Condé Nast’s Anna Wintour inviting them to a meeting with...

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Charlotte Klein

Cory Booker’s Speech Is the Broad Trump Indictment Democrats Need

Cory Booker’s Speech Is the Broad Trump Indictment Democrats Need

My initial reaction to the news that Cory Booker was going to hold the Senate floor for many hours to dramatize his opposition to Trump 2.0 was a...

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Ed Kilgore

Elon Musk Goes Bust

Elon Musk Goes Bust

Democrats easily won a competitive and much-heralded supreme-court contest in Wisconsin, where the liberal candidate they backed triumphed over a...

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Ed Kilgore

Republicans Say They Want More Elon Musk, Not Less

Republicans Say They Want More Elon Musk, Not Less

Republicans have a message for all the Elon Musk haters out there: He isn’t going away. That’s even after Musk put himself center stage in...

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David Freedlander

Eric Adams Gets Off Scot-free

A federal judge officially dismissed the pending corruption charges against Eric Adams in an unsurprising but big win for the long-embattled mayor,...

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Nia Prater

Does Luck Exist?

Does Luck Exist?

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Holly Davis didn’t...

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Eric Boodman

Musk-Bashing Is the Answer to Keeping Democrats United

Musk-Bashing Is the Answer to Keeping Democrats United

The most tiresome intra-Democratic debate of them all soon reached crisis levels after Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory. Should the “party of...

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Ed Kilgore

Eric Adams Gets Off Scot-free, Then Complains

A federal judge officially dismissed the pending corruption charges against Eric Adams in an unsurprising but big win for the long-embattled mayor,...

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Nia Prater

How Many Innocent Men Did Trump Deport to El Salvador?

How Many Innocent Men Did Trump Deport to El Salvador?

Last month, the Trump administration invoked the rarely used Alien Enemies Act to place hundreds of Venezuelan and Salvadoran migrants on...

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Nia Prater

The U.S. Wants to Execute Luigi Mangione

The U.S. Wants to Execute Luigi Mangione

The U.S. Wants to Execute Luigi Mangione Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered prosecutors on Tuesday to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione,...

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Benjamin Hart

Senate Parliamentarian Could Derail Trump’s Entire Agenda

Senate Parliamentarian Could Derail Trump’s Entire Agenda

This is a pretty big week in American politics. On Tuesday we’ll see the first special and off-year elections of the second Trump era, and on...

01.04.2025 3

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Ed Kilgore

Are the Yankees Cheating or Just Good?

Are the Yankees Cheating or Just Good?

For all the Shohei Ohtani worship or Paul Skenes hype, nothing in baseball breaks through to the broader public like the possibility of a cheating...

01.04.2025 1

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Will Leitch

James Boasberg Is the Most Important Judge in America

James Boasberg Is the Most Important Judge in America

The Saturday that Judge James Boasberg, the chief judge of the federal district court in Washington, D.C., was assigned the case challenging Donald...

01.04.2025 2

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Cristian Farias

The Most Important Judge in America

The Most Important Judge in America

The Saturday that Judge James Boasberg, the chief judge of the federal district court in Washington, D.C., was assigned the case challenging Donald...

01.04.2025 1

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Cristian Farias

The White Lotus, the Manosphere, and a World Without Women

The White Lotus, the Manosphere, and a World Without Women

Saxon Ratliff, the protein-shake–blending, muscle-bound bro at the center of the latest season of The White Lotus , is the man of our moment....

01.04.2025 1

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Ryu Spaeth

Is Cory Booker’s ‘Filibuster’ Doing Anything to Stop Trump?

Is Cory Booker’s ‘Filibuster’ Doing Anything to Stop Trump?

Since Inauguration Day, party activists have been begging elected Democrats to “do something” to interfere with Donald Trump’s agenda. Senate...

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Ed Kilgore

Economic Warnings About Trump’s Tariffs Are Piling Up

Economic Warnings About Trump’s Tariffs Are Piling Up

Donald Trump has made tariffs a staple of his second term, levying a flurry of taxes on foes and neighbors alike as an extension of his “America...

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Chas Danner And Nia Prater

Stagflation Would Blow Up Trump’s Second Term Like Nothing Else

Stagflation Would Blow Up Trump’s Second Term Like Nothing Else

For all his success in imposing his will on the federal government, Donald Trump may be deliberately engineering his own political downfall by...

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Ed Kilgore

Meghan Markle’s Latest Big Idea: Rinsing & Reusing Jam Jars

Meghan Markle’s Latest Big Idea: Rinsing & Reusing Jam Jars

Meghan Markle has taken a lot of flak for her two recent business endeavors: a Netflix lifestyle show and her product line, As ever. The...

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Margaret Hartmann