Shortly after 10 p.m., press secretary Pierre Salinger stepped before reporters in a makeshift pressroom at the Statler Hotel. For the first time he acknowledged that Patrick had…
Read more Inside the Heartbreakingly Brief Life of Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, JFK and Jackie’s Youngest SonAt around 9:00 a.m. on October 27, 2022, Parag Agrawal, the CEO of Twitter, summoned his leadership team into one of the large glass-doored conference rooms that lined…
Read more “Are You Saying No to Elon Musk?”: Scenes from the Slash-and-Burn Buyout of TwitterDeSantis told Trump and Stepien that he thought Wiles lied and leaked to the press.“Fair enough,” Stepien replied. “But you won, and so did Donald Trump in Florida…
Read more The Woman Who Engineered Donald Trump’s Rise From the Ashes of 2020Don’t worry about it, Little Marco …. Low energy …. You are the single biggest liar…. The first 2024 presidential debate is set for Thursday, and there may…
Read more As Biden and Trump Square Off in Their First Debate, Let’s Revisit Why Trump Won the 2016 ShowdownsIt’s common to meet the idea of intuition with an eye roll. We tend to value reason over everything else, using expressions like “think before you act,” “think…
Read more The Science of Intuition—And How to Tune Into Your OwnRon DeSantis and Donald Trump were, for the moment, great political allies. The two were even developing a friendship that, impressively, seemed to transcend the campaign trail. What…
Read more “Get Me the F–king Tape”: How Ron DeSantis’s “Build the Wall” Ad Put Him on the Outs With TrumpHanging over the whole saga of George Santos, the congressman from New York who made up almost everything, is his mother, Fatima Devolder. One person who helped on…
Read more The Unvarnished Story of George Santos and His MotherThe absurdity of the situation was captured in McEntee’s interview with the January 6 Committee: Q: Is it typical for the Presidential Personnel Office to draft orders concerning…
Read more “You’re Telling Me That Thing Is Forged?”: The Inside Story of How Trump’s “Body Guy” Tried and Failed to Order a Massive Military WithdrawalAs head of security, Comey reported to Dalio’s longtime deputy Greg Jensen, who seemed eager to prove that he took the protection of Bridgewater’s secrets as seriously as…
Read more Inside James Comey’s Bizarre $7M Job as a Top Hedge Fund’s In-House InquisitorIn the autumn of 1993, author David John Moore Cornwell, known to the world by his pen name, John le Carré, received a fan letter from a reader…
Read more The Love Letters of John le CarréIn one memory I am at Indian school in a Navy peacoat, my long dark hair hiding my face. I have a pen in my hand copying out…
Read more “A Holographic Poemsong”: Joy Harjo on Bob Dylan’s “Tangled Up in Blue”Without those two crucial scenes, there’s nothing about her feeling that she has lost her sense of self in Hollywood…nothing about being informed on…nothing about what actually forced…
Read more Barbra Streisand on ‘The Way We Were’ and Her Fight to Get It RightTaplin, the educator, writer (Move Fast and Break Things), and film producer (Mean Streets, The Last Waltz), is director emeritus of USC’s Annenberg Innovation Lab. His peripatetic career…
Read more How Musk, Thiel, Zuckerberg, and Andreessen—Four Billionaire Techno-Oligarchs—Are Creating an Alternate, Autocratic RealityPondering the relationship between the News Channel 4 team and their rivals in the early drafts of their script, McKay and Ferrell imagined them to be like the…
Read more “That Escalated Quickly”: Inside Anchorman’s Epic Battle SequencePeter Thiel, the arch-capitalist fifty-four-year-old cofounder of PayPal, was throwing one-hundred-dollar bills from the main stage, trying to signify their unimportance. When members of the crowd rushed to…
Read more Booth Babes, Bull Rides, and Volcano Bonds: A Walk Through Miami’s Bizarre Bitcoin Symposium“I live in constant fear,” Amy Chozick told me as she sat in my New York Times office. The rising-star reporter was worried about losing even a single…
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