Articles from Intelligencer https://nymag.com/intelligencer Sat, 16 May 2026 13:54:38 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 2026 Feed delivered by Clay https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/638/14b/116c29246a10f066750f1d719ee09d433f-fifa-tickets.1x.rsocial.w1200.jpg https://nymag.com/intelligencer games,sports,2026 world cup,fifa world cup john herrman,screen time,technology politics,tom kean jr.,new jersey,u.s. house of representatives tremendous content,donald trump,politics,early and often sam altman,elon musk,musk v. altman,openai,ai mêlée politics,early and often,2026 midterms,gerrymandering,battleground districts,battleground states,donald trump politics,china,donald trump,early and often,taiwan,trade,what we know politics,brian christine,cnn,hhs,department of health and human services politics,early and often,u.s. supreme court,louisiana v. callais,donald trump,gerrymandering,2026 midterms,hakeem jeffries,kamala harris tremendous content,rush hour 4,brett ratner,donald trump,politics,early and often jack schlossberg,politics,ny-12,new york times kevin warsh,central casting,federal reserve stop the presses,buzzfeed,jonah peretti,byron allen education,parenting,new york city,department of education,special education,private school,nyc public schools,public schools,audio article,hard paywall,one great story american affairs,ben shapiro,tucker carlson,candace owens,megyn kelly,israel,benjamin netanyahu,nick fuentes,hard paywall politics,early and often,china,donald trump,xi jinping,foreign policy politics,early and often,2026 midterms,california governor race,xavier becerra,tom steyer,katie porter,eric swalwell,steve hilton,top two primary john herrman,screen time,technology class of 2026,nyu,campus protests,jonathan haidt,pomp and circumstance,higher education,politics,free speech politics,early and often,louisiana v. callais,gerrymandering,voting rights act,donald trump,henry mcmaster,brian kemp,2026 midterms http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-good-news-about-extortionary-world-cup-ticket-prices.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=social_acct&utm_campaign=feed-part Sat, 16 May 2026 06:00:14 -0400 http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-good-news-about-extortionary-world-cup-ticket-prices.html http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-good-news-about-extortionary-world-cup-ticket-prices.html#comments games sports 2026 world cup fifa world cup Will Leitch It is rare that the current occupant of the White House says something that unifies every American. So I suppose it’s telling that the one time I can remember it happening has come at the expense of FIFA. More »]]> http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/why-amazon-put-down-rufus-its-loyal-ai-assistant.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=social_acct&utm_campaign=feed-part Sat, 16 May 2026 05:00:06 -0400 http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/why-amazon-put-down-rufus-its-loyal-ai-assistant.html http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/why-amazon-put-down-rufus-its-loyal-ai-assistant.html#comments john herrman screen time technology John Herrman After two short years, Rufus, Amazon’s “generative AI-powered conversational shopping experience,” has been sent to a server farm upstate. It will be remembered, almost, for appearing in the corner of hundreds of millions of More »]]> http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/vague-comments-add-to-puzzle-over-tom-kean-jr-s-absence.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=social_acct&utm_campaign=feed-part Fri, 15 May 2026 16:02:39 -0400 http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/vague-comments-add-to-puzzle-over-tom-kean-jr-s-absence.html http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/vague-comments-add-to-puzzle-over-tom-kean-jr-s-absence.html#comments politics tom kean jr. new jersey u.s. house of representatives Nia Prater For months, a Republican congressman has been absent from Capitol Hill due to an undisclosed medical issue. There is no clear return date in sight, and a series of new reports has prompted only more questions about the lawmaker’s condition. More »]]> http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-loves-gold-statue-doral.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=social_acct&utm_campaign=feed-part Fri, 15 May 2026 14:44:45 -0400 http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-loves-gold-statue-doral.html http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-loves-gold-statue-doral.html#comments tremendous content donald trump politics early and often Margaret Hartmann As we have previously established, the recently erected 22-foot golden statue of Donald Trump is not a false idol. But a... More »]]> http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/openai-jury-to-decide-do-you-trust-elon-musk-or-sam-altman.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=social_acct&utm_campaign=feed-part Fri, 15 May 2026 13:30:30 -0400 http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/openai-jury-to-decide-do-you-trust-elon-musk-or-sam-altman.html http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/openai-jury-to-decide-do-you-trust-elon-musk-or-sam-altman.html#comments sam altman elon musk musk v. altman openai ai mêlée Michael Calderone Over three weeks of testimony, Elon Musk’s legal team has tried hammering home one fundamental point to the jury: You cannot trust Sam Altman. On Tuesday, Musk attorney Steven Molo a... More »]]> http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/why-the-midterms-battleground-keeps-shrinking.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=social_acct&utm_campaign=feed-part Fri, 15 May 2026 13:18:36 -0400 http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/why-the-midterms-battleground-keeps-shrinking.html http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/why-the-midterms-battleground-keeps-shrinking.html#comments politics early and often 2026 midterms gerrymandering battleground districts battleground states donald trump Ed Kilgore Democrats and Republicans spent much of the past year engaged in a gerrymandering competition. The race was to reshape the maps pushed into overtime by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in More »]]> http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/did-trumps-china-trip-accomplish-anything-at-all.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=social_acct&utm_campaign=feed-part Fri, 15 May 2026 12:19:00 -0400 http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/did-trumps-china-trip-accomplish-anything-at-all.html http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/did-trumps-china-trip-accomplish-anything-at-all.html#comments politics china donald trump early and often taiwan trade what we know Chas Danner President Donald Trump and his big entourage of Cabinet officials and CEOs are on their way back from More »]]> http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/brian-christine-covid-conspiracist-erection-expert-leads-us-hantavirus-response.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=social_acct&utm_campaign=feed-part Fri, 15 May 2026 11:30:53 -0400 http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/brian-christine-covid-conspiracist-erection-expert-leads-us-hantavirus-response.html http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/brian-christine-covid-conspiracist-erection-expert-leads-us-hantavirus-response.html#comments politics brian christine cnn hhs department of health and human services Nia Prater In his second term, President Donald Trump has enacted a significant overhaul of the federal government’s approach to public health, overseeing extensive changes of policy... More »]]> http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/callais-scotus-alito-gaurantee-extreme-polarization-outlasts-trump.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=social_acct&utm_campaign=feed-part Fri, 15 May 2026 08:00:04 -0400 http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/callais-scotus-alito-gaurantee-extreme-polarization-outlasts-trump.html http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/callais-scotus-alito-gaurantee-extreme-polarization-outlasts-trump.html#comments politics early and often u.s. supreme court louisiana v. callais donald trump gerrymandering 2026 midterms hakeem jeffries kamala harris Ed Kilgore Lots of well-meaning folks in and beyond both major political parties have quietly hoped that the poisonous atmosphere of partisan polarization in Washington and around the country will dissipate once More »]]> http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/rush-hour-4-movie-trump.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=social_acct&utm_campaign=feed-part Fri, 15 May 2026 05:00:01 -0400 http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/rush-hour-4-movie-trump.html http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/rush-hour-4-movie-trump.html#comments tremendous content rush hour 4 brett ratner donald trump politics early and often Margaret Hartmann Does Donald Trump really care about Americans’ affordability concerns? The jury is out on that. But we d... More »]]> http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/4-wild-details-from-new-york-times-jack-schlossberg-report.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=social_acct&utm_campaign=feed-part Thu, 14 May 2026 15:36:07 -0400 http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/4-wild-details-from-new-york-times-jack-schlossberg-report.html http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/4-wild-details-from-new-york-times-jack-schlossberg-report.html#comments jack schlossberg politics ny-12 new york times Nia Prater Next month, voters will get to cast their vote in the highly contested race to succeed veteran Democrat Jerry Nadler in the More »]]> http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/kevin-warsh-fed-chair-donald-trump-sock-puppet.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=social_acct&utm_campaign=feed-part Thu, 14 May 2026 15:28:10 -0400 http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/kevin-warsh-fed-chair-donald-trump-sock-puppet.html http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/kevin-warsh-fed-chair-donald-trump-sock-puppet.html#comments kevin warsh central casting federal reserve Bess Levin Jay Powell is out; Kevin Warsh is in. On Tuesday, the Senate confirmed Donald Trump’s nominee for chairman of the Federal Reserve, and Powell’s time running the central bank will expire on Friday. For the outgoing Fed chair, it will mark the conclusion of years of abuse by the president of the Un... More »]]> http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/why-byron-allen-wanted-to-buy-buzzfeed.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=social_acct&utm_campaign=feed-part Thu, 14 May 2026 15:05:05 -0400 http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/why-byron-allen-wanted-to-buy-buzzfeed.html http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/why-byron-allen-wanted-to-buy-buzzfeed.html#comments stop the presses buzzfeed jonah peretti byron allen Charlotte Klein Earlier this week, after years of financial struggles, BuzzFeed got a lifeline. Byron Allen, a media entrepreneur known for making sometimes unsolicited bids on massive companies such as Paramount Global and Tegna, has agreed to pay $120 million for a 52 percent stake in the digital-media company... More »]]> http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/carter-case-lawsuit-new-york-city-education-special-education-tuition.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=social_acct&utm_campaign=feed-part Thu, 14 May 2026 14:00:40 -0400 http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/carter-case-lawsuit-new-york-city-education-special-education-tuition.html http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/carter-case-lawsuit-new-york-city-education-special-education-tuition.html#comments education parenting new york city department of education special education private school nyc public schools public schools audio article hard paywall one great story Anya Kamenetz This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. More »]]> http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/why-ben-shapiros-media-empire-is-collapsing.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=social_acct&utm_campaign=feed-part Thu, 14 May 2026 12:00:00 -0400 http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/why-ben-shapiros-media-empire-is-collapsing.html http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/why-ben-shapiros-media-empire-is-collapsing.html#comments american affairs ben shapiro tucker carlson candace owens megyn kelly israel benjamin netanyahu nick fuentes hard paywall Ross Barkan There was a time, not very long ago, when Ben Shapiro could reasonably call himself the king of all conservative media. More »]]> http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-china-trip-day-one-these-things-definitely-happened.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=social_acct&utm_campaign=feed-part Thu, 14 May 2026 11:57:00 -0400 http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-china-trip-day-one-these-things-definitely-happened.html http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-china-trip-day-one-these-things-definitely-happened.html#comments politics early and often china donald trump xi jinping foreign policy Chas Danner Nia Prater While you were sleeping, it was day one of President Donald Trump’s historic second high-stakes China summit. There were waving children (again) and bilateral talks, an American-i... More »]]> http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-xavier-becerra-surge-is-turning-into-a-pile-on.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=social_acct&utm_campaign=feed-part Thu, 14 May 2026 09:00:06 -0400 http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-xavier-becerra-surge-is-turning-into-a-pile-on.html http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-xavier-becerra-surge-is-turning-into-a-pile-on.html#comments politics early and often 2026 midterms california governor race xavier becerra tom steyer katie porter eric swalwell steve hilton top two primary Ed Kilgore During the last month, a very sleepy California gubernatorial contest has come alive — and gone sideways. Before More »]]> http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-anthropic-mythos-openai-google.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=social_acct&utm_campaign=feed-part Thu, 14 May 2026 07:00:49 -0400 http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-anthropic-mythos-openai-google.html http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-anthropic-mythos-openai-google.html#comments john herrman screen time technology John Herrman Last month’s preannouncement of Anthropic’s Mythos, an unreleased AI model that the company warns is extraordinarily good at finding and exploiting security vulnerabilities in everything from operating systems and web browsers to industrial software and health-care platforms, sent More »]]> http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/jonathan-haidt-nyu-commencement-speaker-campus-speech-debate.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=social_acct&utm_campaign=feed-part Thu, 14 May 2026 05:00:35 -0400 http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/jonathan-haidt-nyu-commencement-speaker-campus-speech-debate.html http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/jonathan-haidt-nyu-commencement-speaker-campus-speech-debate.html#comments class of 2026 nyu campus protests jonathan haidt pomp and circumstance higher education politics free speech Matt Stieb New York University’s Jonathan Haidt checks a number of boxes for an in-house commencement speaker: best-selling author, public intellectual, and high-profile campus figure. A social psychologist teaching “ethic... More »]]> http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/republicans-wind-down-their-post-callais-gerrymander-blitz.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=social_acct&utm_campaign=feed-part Wed, 13 May 2026 18:33:00 -0400 http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/republicans-wind-down-their-post-callais-gerrymander-blitz.html http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/republicans-wind-down-their-post-callais-gerrymander-blitz.html#comments politics early and often louisiana v. callais gerrymandering voting rights act donald trump henry mcmaster brian kemp 2026 midterms Ed Kilgore Two weeks have passed since the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, pouring rocket fuel on More »]]>