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Zacharia Out as Press Secretary in Half a Scaramucci

Katie Zacharia has had a rough week. Rather than defending President Trump and his policies, the new White House press secretary spent the past few...

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Margaret Hartmann

What New York’s Governor Faces on Day One

After many hours of preparation, my Spectrum News colleagues and I settled on 11 substantive questions to ask Governor Kathy Hochul and Nassau County...

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Errol Louis

Katie Zacharia Didn’t Pass the Bar Exam in China, or Anywhere

Just moments after her disastrous first press conference on Tuesday morning, new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia found herself embroiled in...

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Margaret Hartmann

Trump Leaves Hegseth Hanging Over Livestream Execution

Sometimes, even during the Trump era, backlash still works. President Donald Trump on Thursday canceled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s plan to...

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Chas Danner

Questions Remain About the ICE Shooting of Oscar Belgal

It’s been more than a week since Oscar Belgal was shot in the neck by an ICE agent in the Manhattan and Bronx adjacent–neighborhood of Marble...

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Nia Prater

The Country Cramming for the AI Revolution

In May, I sat in a living room on the fringes of Hangzhou, one of the most technologically advanced cities in China and home to Alibaba, Unitree, and...

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Afra Wang

Podcaster Hillary Clinton Feels Like a ‘Walking Rorschach Test’

If you haven’t already heard, Hillary Clinton is hosting a new pop-up podcast with Kara Swisher focused on the looming midterms. In the debut...

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Intelligencer Staff

Dolan Is Using the Knicks Against Hochul

Next week, the New York Knicks will cap off their fairy-tale run with a moment that generations of fans thought they’d see only in their dreams: the...

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Nia Prater

Kirsten Gillibrand, Crypto’s Favorite Democrat

At first, Maple was by my side. Kirsten Gillibrand’s Labradoodle pressed herself against my legs, happily accepting scratches and offering up a...

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Nate Weisberg

Press Secretary Katie Zacharia’s Debut Was Pure Amateur Hour

There’s a rumor that President Trump decided he was done waiting for his staffers to find him a new White House press secretary to replace Karoline...

13.10.2026 4

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Margaret Hartmann

Guilfoyle’s Greek Tragedy: Too Corrupt Even for Trump

Donald Trump’s second term in office has been characterized by the most blatant displays of corruption in modern presidential history, complete...

13.10.2026 3

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Bess Levin

Unhappy Trump Voters Are the Midterms Difference-Makers

Just a few weeks from the end of the 2026 midterm elections, there are all sorts of variables that could affect the outcome on the margins. There...

13.10.2026 4

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Ed Kilgore

Why New York Republicans Still Love Trump

Across the country, in the reddest of red states and districts, Republicans — clinging to what were once thought to be safe seats with a Blue Wave...

13.10.2026 4

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David Freedlander

DoJ’s Doomed Pursuit of Cassidy Hutchinson

The Justice Department is virtually certain to try to indict Cassidy Hutchinson, a former Trump White House aide and a key January 6 witness. And if...

12.10.2026 5

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Elie Honig

When Only AI Can See the Cancer

Probing American health care. Pamela Jackson was seven months pregnant when she began to experience radiating, debilitating back pain. At first, she...

12.10.2026 3

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Vivian Manning-Schaffel

Trump Is Locked in a Posthumous Feud With Abe Lincoln

Donald Trump has serious beef with every living former president. While the Bidens, Bushes, Clintons, and Obamas have made a big show of their...

11.10.2026 7

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Margaret Hartmann

Mamdani’s School Plan Is Still MIA

Last week, Mayor Zohran Mamdani was pressed to respond to Nikole Hannah-Jones’s recent essay chronicling her daughter’s challenges in the city’s...

10.10.2026 4

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Nia Prater

The Problem With Facebook Was Facebook

In May 2020, Wall Street Journal reporters Jeff Horwitz and Deepa Seetharaman published a major story about Facebook. They quoted internal research,...

10.10.2026 8

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John Herrman

What Darializa Avila Chevalier Saw at the NYC ICE Shooting

Darializa Avila Chevalier was at a community meeting in Harlem on Thursday afternoon when her phone began blowing up with news that plainclothes...

09.10.2026 6

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Matt Stieb

Anthropic’s God Complex

Anthropic’s “constitution” for Claude, its large language model, contains a disarming pledge. The authors want AI to “be safe” and “a good...

09.10.2026 4

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Sarah Jones

With Livestream Killing, Hegseth Goes Full Barbarian

For a sizable majority of the world, capital punishment is a remnant of barbarism from an increasingly distant past. Its persistence in the United...

09.10.2026 6

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Ed Kilgore

Mamdani’s Real Test Is Curbing Antisemitism

Mayor Zohran Mamdani, like his predecessors, would like us all to pay close attention to numbers that show him to be successful and maybe spend less...

09.10.2026 5

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Errol Louis

The Social Reckoning Omits Way More Than Trump’s Name

There were signs of trouble for The Social Reckoning well before the film hit theaters this week. Some arose from the production itself; the movie...

09.10.2026 7

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Margaret Hartmann

Trump’s Vote-Buying Checks Are in the Mail

There is no better reflection of the purely transactional nature of Donald Trump’s politics than his love for buying Americans’ affections with...

08.10.2026 8

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Ed Kilgore

The Craziest Details of the Kimberly Guilfoyle Donor Scandal

When Donald Trump named Kimberly Guilfoyle the U.S. ambassador to Greece in late 2024, the prevailing wisdom was that it had less to do with her...

08.10.2026 10

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Bess Levin

The Battle for Kips Bay: Movie Fans vs. Big Medicine

Jack Greenberg, in his brown Merrells, white socks, and transition glasses working overtime on an unseasonably hot Friday afternoon in October, looks...

08.10.2026 8

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Matt Stieb

Nobody Is Ready for the AI-Agent Flood

In September, small businesses around the country started receiving strange phone calls. “Hi, this is [Name],” they would begin before informing...

08.10.2026 10

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John Herrman

Treasury Secretary Said to Spit in His Own Food When Angry

As Republicans facing down the loss of the House can tell you, the economy is not looking good for many Americans. Wages are not keeping up with...

07.10.2026 10

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Bess Levin

Mamdani Couldn’t Resist Attacking Israel in October 7 Statement

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s strained relationship with New York’s Jewish Establishment is not likely to improve after Wednesday morning. On the third...

07.10.2026 8

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Benjamin Hart

Ken Paxton Is Kicking the GOP Lifeguards Trying to Save Him

There are three central things to understand about the embattled U.S. Senate campaign of Texas attorney general Ken Paxton. The first is that his...

07.10.2026 10

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Ed Kilgore

Is Everything Suddenly Possible for Democrats?

Yes, we all know about the increasing possibility of a blue wave election in November. But the number and nature of states that could get caught up in...

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Ed Kilgore

Trump’s Shameless Collaborators

As the bottom falls out of Donald Trump’s second term, I find myself trying to imagine what’s going through the minds of his collaborators during...

07.10.2026 10

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Frank Rich

Like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Alito Is Gambling on Outliving His Critics

One of many recent turning points in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court is something that did not happen a little more than a decade ago....

06.10.2026 10

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Ed Kilgore

The Yankees Are Blowing It in the Most Frustrating Way

The New York Yankees’ defense is perfectly fine. It is! Every defensive metric in baseball ranked them as, at worst, average this year. They were...

06.10.2026 10

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Will Leitch

‘I Don’t Think We’re All F***ed Anymore’

Kevin Roose has been explaining artificial intelligence to normies for many years. From his almost decade-long perch as a business-and-technology...

06.10.2026 10

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Benjamin Hart

Why Letitia James Is the Wrong Choice to Prosecute the Cornell Case

While an alleged sexual assault at Cornell University has ignited intense public debate, this much is beyond meaningful dispute: Tompkins County...

06.10.2026 10

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Elie Honig

Chasing the Pope

In my more than 20 trips to countries around the world with the late Pope Francis, I never really knew what to say to him when he walked through the...

06.10.2026 10

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Jason Horowitz

Why Don’t Colleges Just Ban Fraternities?

I got my bachelor’s degree at a little Division III liberal-arts college set bucolically amid the cows and corn of northern Ohio. We did have a...

06.10.2026 30

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Jacob Bacharach

6 Midterms Takeaways With a Month to Go

We’re now past the one-month signpost for the 2026 midterm elections. Voting by mail is already underway in 21 states, and in-person early voting...

05.10.2026 10

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Ed Kilgore

The Inescapable Hasan Piker

By 8:30 p.m. on day one of the Socialism 2026 conference, Hasan Piker was tired and hungry and ready to leave. He had flown to Chicago from L.A. that...

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Simon van Zuylen-Wood

What Would You Do If Your Employer Could Destroy the World?

On September 8, Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old Anthropic employee, posted a resignation statement on X that ricocheted around the internet. Coxon was a...

05.10.2026 30

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Clara Collier

MAGA Can’t Let Go of Tricky Dick

Last month at the Midterm Republican Convention, Donald Trump asked the crowd to pledge allegiance to “the greatest president in the history of the...

04.10.2026 9

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Ed Kilgore

GOP Saving the Unpopular Stuff for After the Election

Many eyebrows were raised by reports of a quiet word from the White House to the Justice Department concerning the pace of litigation aimed at...

03.10.2026 10

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Ed Kilgore

The Most Polarizing Parenting Essay Ever?

Lane Anderson lives in Washington Heights. She is white, her husband is Black, and together they have a biracial third-grader. For the past ten days,...

03.10.2026 10

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Anya Kamenetz

Mamdani’s 2K Is a Mathematical Mess

For 13 years, Kim owned a small preschool — six classrooms serving children ages 2 to 5 — in a still-gentrifying part of Brooklyn. Many of the...

03.10.2026 10

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Claire Suddath

How Low Can Trump Go?

Donald Trump’s job-approval numbers have steadily eroded throughout his second term as president. Per the Silver Bulletin polling averages, he hit...

02.10.2026 10

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Ed Kilgore

Nikole Hannah-Jones Worries You’re Missing the Point

Nearly two weeks after it was published, people are still talking about the latest essay from New York Times Magazine staff writer Nikole...

02.10.2026 10

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Nia Prater

The Post–Me Too Generation Gets Its Me Too Moment

“One of them fucking works at Wells Fargo,” a friend texted me. Another told me that her classmate from high school had known someone involved. I...

02.10.2026 10

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Zoe Yu

Elon Musk Rewarded for DOGE Debacle With ‘Warfare’ Gig

Remember the Department of Government Efficiency, a.k.a DOGE? A little federal agency run by Elon Musk? Made big claims about how it was going to save...

01.10.2026 10

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Bess Levin

These Yankees Might Actually Be Something Special

The last time the Yankees won the World Series, they were so, so old. In 2009, the team was led by Derek Jeter (35), Alex Rodriguez (33), Jorge Posada...

01.10.2026 10

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Will Leitch