It begins again: the messy bargain between Gawker owner and Gawker writer. | Continue reading
It begins again: the messy bargain between Gawker owner and Gawker writer. | Continue reading
It’s not even clear who is running Binance’s U.S. arm now. | Continue reading
The vaccines work very well, but current public health communications may be understating the frequency of infections among the vaccinated. | Continue reading
Christine Quinn said this! Let’s unpack! | Continue reading
The governor proclaims his innocence but says he is stepping down. | Continue reading
The trend of U.S. hospitalizations and deaths amid the Delta wave appears to be far worse that what many had expected. | Continue reading
Is clown fear among adults a jokey affectation that has become easy to adopt as clowns fade into irrelevancy and the number of people who’ve seen one in real life dwindles? | Continue reading
Why the variant’s spread may be less pervasive than we currently expect. | Continue reading
Customers are putting up with filthy interiors, petty surcharges (just to speak to someone!), and skyrocketing prices. | Continue reading
Boomers will bequeath more than $30 trillion by 2045. Some millennials will become beneficiaries of high housing costs and stock prices. Others won’t. | Continue reading
If you think it’s hard to find a good flight, wait till you try to book a rental car or a hotel room. | Continue reading
Why we should rethink COVID safety protocols for children — and everyone else. | Continue reading
It’s yet another frustrating aspect of this mysterious disease. | Continue reading
The Son of Rudy is working out his father issues on the road to Albany. | Continue reading
The epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch explains the risks of the virus research done at the Wuhan Institute. | Continue reading
Sicha will regularly write short-form pieces for Intelligencer, the magazine’s news vertical, along with longer essays and critical pieces. | Continue reading
If Biden executes his plan for full employment, heightened class conflict will ensue. | Continue reading
What about two-thirds economy, one-third coup, suggests Lindsey Graham. | Continue reading
Reporters turned an ambiguous story into “moral clarity.” | Continue reading
A case study in the social-media echo chamber. | Continue reading
On a mass scale, it could be used to fly airplanes or power heavy machinery, replacing petroleum in some situations. It even has a catchy name: eFuel. | Continue reading
An endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has rendered us manic information addicts. It broke me. It might break you, too. | Continue reading
How a spy-for-hire got closely guarded documents about the global elite, hawking them to the likes of Christopher Steele. | Continue reading
There’s a heated discussion going on over this question — and Elon Musk has staked out both sides. | Continue reading
The infections are not a surprise. They may even be a good thing. | Continue reading
The true figure in two California hospitals was off by at least 40 percent. | Continue reading
Revisiting the Trump-Russia mystery in light of the newest revelation. | Continue reading
The chasm between the ecologically necessary and the politically possible can only be bridged by technological advance. | Continue reading
Silicon Valley feels picked on by “woke” journalists “who can’t code.” Reporters feel picked on by petty zillionaires with anger-management problems. | Continue reading
Persist is an account of a campaign bubble that doesn’t know it was in a bubble. | Continue reading
For a socially anxious and solitude-loving few, the pandemic has been a sort of strange blessing they don’t want to lose. | Continue reading
The Cheney debate shows the party elite has made up its mind. | Continue reading
Two more trading exchanges have embraced the crypto, Elon “Dogefather” Musk is about to host SNL, and there’s some seller’s remorse too. | Continue reading
“The CDC’s recommendations are, frankly, senseless. Children cannot be running around outside in 90-degree weather in a mask. Period.” | Continue reading
The inquiry, announced by Merrick Garland, is the second such “pattern or practice” investigation into systemic police abuses in the past week. | Continue reading
The chilling spectacle of watching the political class redeem a criminal, again. | Continue reading
Carrying a piece of the Wright Brothers’ glider, Ingenuity achieved an interplanetary first on Monday. | Continue reading
For a select few, covering up has become a way of life. What is the cost? | Continue reading
Why is the former “angry centrist” pushing his party to go bigger, bolder, and more progressive? | Continue reading
Welcome to the non-fungible, memeified, cryptodenominated, degenerate future of finance. | Continue reading
Julia Galef on bringing the rationalist movement to the mainstream. | Continue reading
Scandals haven’t sunk the congressman yet, maybe because he’s more of a media figure than a politician. | Continue reading
What first looked like an inferior option has become popular, with many people seeking it out over Pfizer or Moderna’s jabs. | Continue reading
Complaints about the platform reflect broader discontents with the journalism industry and profession. | Continue reading
A police chief’s words to a reporter on January 6 upended a little New Hampshire town and roiled state politics. | Continue reading