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Editor/writer/utility player @nymag.com's Intelligencer. Formerly of the blogosphere. Space and time-limited gardener.
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Analyst Dan Wang says that in an all-out China-U.S. trade war, Xi Jinping holds some clear advantages over Donald Trump.
Xi Jinping Has Something Trump Doesn’t
Analyst Dan Wang says that in an all-out China-U.S. trade war, Xi Jinping holds some clear advantages over Donald Trump.
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April 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Recently I realized that Smartfood white cheddar popcorn, the snack of snacks, did not taste as good as it used to. Was it me? Please accept my mad investigation into the recipe www.eater.com/24394718/sma...
Why Doesn’t Smartfood Popcorn Hit Like It Used To?
One woman’s quest to figure out why her beloved white cheddar popcorn started to disappoint.
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March 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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If you're a NYM subscriber and aren't signed up for the How to Be a New Yorker newsletter, you are seriously missing out: nymag.com/article/how-...
Do You Know How to Really Live in New York?
Introducing How to Be a New Yorker, a subscriber-exclusive newsletter series full of tips, tricks, and hacks to thriving in this city.
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March 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Wow. www.curbed.com/article/clau...
My Own Private Avignon
Claude-Noëlle Toly’s 275-square-foot studio feels worlds away from Bleecker Street.
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March 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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A fight between the Associated Press and the White House has revealed deep fissures among Washington journalists. Checking in with the DC press corps:
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How Trump Is Dividing and Conquering the White House Press Corps
A spat with the Associated Press has revealed deep fissures among Washington journalists.
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March 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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The president is addressing a joint session of Congress, assuming Elon Musk hasn’t already sold the U.S. Capitol Building to condo developers. Here are live updates.
D.C. Braces for Trump’s Address to Congress: Live Updates
The president is addressing a joint session of Congress, assuming Elon Musk hasn’t already sold the U.S. Capitol Building to condo developers. Here are live updates.
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March 5, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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He’s accused of doing terrible things. He also had some amazing successes. What will NYC voters remember? My latest in @nymag.com
Which Andrew Cuomo Will New Yorkers Remember?
The ex-governor has a case to make, but it won’t be easy under the strain of so much baggage.
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March 2, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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It's layoff morning in America nymag.com/intelligence...
Musk, who is arguably the second most powerful person in government, and the most successful capitalist in America, officially has "no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself, according to White House lawyers, but his constant (and constantly heeded) posts betray both his functional position and the minimum bound of his ambitions. Specifically, he wants to fire as many people as possible. Punishing workers is a cause and a purpose unto itself, inseparable from a grandiose conflation of personal desires and successes with the fate of humanity. It's an ecstatic project with an accelerationist character. "I am become meme," he declares, as his team of private sector loyalists harasses federal employees with spiteful emails threatening to get rid of them. The message from the largest employer in the country to its disfavored employees could not be much clearer: You are waste, you are fraud. We want to make a spectacle of your misfortune. We cannot wait to fire you. DOGE is certainly helping to achieve, to quote Project 2025 author and new director of the Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought, the goal of putting federal workers "in trauma" and casting them as "the villains." But Musk is more than a willing mercenary for someone else's project, and his stature and influence within and outside the government imbues his slash-and-burn campaign with greater significance. Within the scope of DOGE, Musk is playing the role of government auditor and contractor, which is conflict enough. But he's also a singular industrialist with multiple companies devoted to automation, a history of executing brutal and punitive firings, and a proudly hostile stance toward organized labor and regulation. Most relevant, however, is his longtime obsession with what he sees as the mother of all technologies. He's an Al guy. This might explain why DOGE's flamboyant and unprecedented performance feels both familiar and unsettling beyond the government workforce. We're committing all of our time and resources to eliminating your job, and by the way, the fate of the world hangs in the balance. We're chasing inconceivable power, and you might end up as collateral damage. We're making a new world, and this is our only chance to get it right. We're trying to fire you. This is how MAGA Republicans talk about the political moment. It's also how America's premier industry sounds when it's talking about AI.
February 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Re this @chrislhayes.bsky.social point, @edkilgore.bsky.social did a deep dive on this on Monday: nymag.com/intelligence...
February 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Seems like people wanna talk about all the locked-up stuff at chain pharmacies and big box stores today. Here’s a gift link to a feature I published a few months ago about why retailers started putting so much stuff behind plexiglass and how badly it’s backfired. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Retailers Locked Up Their Products—and Broke Shopping in America
CVS, Target and other chains have barricaded everything from toiletries to cleaning supplies. It’s backfired in almost every way.
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December 1, 2024 at 6:30 PM
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“The conflicts of Ukraine, Gaza and Lebanon all come together and overlap in Aleppo.” My @WSJ analysis of how events outside Syria have resulted in a stunning reversal of the Syrian war. www.wsj.com/world/middle...
Setbacks for Russia, Iran and Hezbollah Turn Into a Catastrophe for Syria’s Assad
The loss of Aleppo to Islamist rebels represents a stunning defeat for the Syrian regime, highlighting its dependence on enfeebled allies.
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November 30, 2024 at 1:45 PM
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I have some doubts about Melania and RFK Jr.'s alleged plot to take away Trump's McDonald's, though it pains me to question my beloved Page Six
Melania and RFK Jr.’s Plot to Take Away Trump’s McDonald’s
Supposedly they’ve joined forces, but the story is hard to swallow.
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November 22, 2024 at 7:24 PM
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; and never stop fighting.
November 19, 2024 at 2:53 AM