At 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 TwitterDon’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 Showdowns“Can they really?” Francis said, feeling sick to his stomach. All this time, he’d thought Augie was finally safe, that she had finally married money. Prince Julius poured…
Read more With ‘Lies and Weddings,’ Kevin Kwan Dives Back Into Ultrarich DramaRon 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 Inquisitor“That’s you,” I tell Smoke in my most reassuring voice, but she always forgets. And this is the catch-22 of confronting your doppelganger: Bark all you want, but…
Read more When Naomi Klein Realized People Regularly Confused Her With Naomi Wolf, She Went Down a Rabbit HoleI came into the mountains last June at the so-called golden hour, through cliffs the color of sand and grace. Wildfire smoke made the whole Western Slope seem…
Read more “The Guns Are the Most Important Thing”: A Day With Lauren Boebert’s Doomsaying Diners at Shooter’s GrillKasey watched as her sister, now living just a few blocks from where they had grown up, tried to put a girl-power branding on QAnon. When I talked…
Read more Time Travel, Brain Scans, and FBI Drop-Ins: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of a QAnon CommuneWhen you consider how the baby boom has affected America, it’s impossible not to contemplate its natural conclusion. There was a sudden, unexpected surge in births—and within a…
Read more “Reality Is Submerged in Fantasy”: The Villages Is a Boomer’s Utopia—And Demographic Time Bomb
