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I've been working on a profile of Lauren Boebert for @nymag, and it's finally out today: The Last Stand of a MAGA Party Girl.
She bucked Trump on Epstein, got ensnared in a sex scandal, and is now fighting for her political life. nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
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“My political engagement is a continuation of the writing. When I write, I feel a sense of responsibility, one that entails not cheating myself. It is about truth: the truth of form, the truth of the writing.”
—Annie Ernaux for NY Mag, 2026
Annie Ernaux talks student protests, Nobel Prizes, and giving away “absolutely everything” in Vulture today! WRITING THE OTHER LIFE and HOTEL CASANOVA are out now vulture.com/article/annie-er…
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all of the answers i was hoping i would get about YCSE from that nathan interview are actually in this (fantastic) profile of lance oppenheim: he explains how [redacted] got involved, holmes' relationship dynamics IRL, and whether nathan was being real vulture.com/article/lance-op…
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"Having a class awakening after clubbing too hard gives new definition to the concept of Champagne socialism."
So many great lines in @svzwood's big Hasan Piker profile, and perceptive pasages like these:
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incredible story and especially @svzwood army crawling under Hasan Piker's livestream: "She said I was jejune. Which, I didn’t even know the word. It means ‘shallow, stupid.’” I told him The New Yorker’s Andrew Marantz had also once called him jejune." nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
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Gift link to "The Country Cramming for the AI Revolution": nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
Regular link: nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
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A new piece from me on @NYMag is out today. It is the second installment in a reporting trilogy I’m calling “AI and the Chinese society.”
Earlier this year, I visited China’s largest get-rich-with-AI company, which sells AI courses for profits. It has more than 80,000 paying members. Its meeting rooms have names like “Apostle of the Method” and “Evangelist.” Their membership system resembles a pyramid scheme.
I was greeted by Mr. Tree, an in-house influencer and AI educator whose social media bio promises to “search for 100 business answers in the age of AI”—an echo of Beijing’s “AI Plus” plan. The company felt like a prosperity-gospel church, and salvation meant adopting AI as fast as you can.
In Liangzhu, China’s vibe-coding capital, which I wrote about, young people give one another AI lessons for free in their living rooms. I also met Xiaokai, a 25-year-old filmmaker who became a pro on AI video generation through free classes, built a business earning several million yuan in profit, and now walks red carpets in Shanghai and Beijing.
To understand this AI education craze, I found peoples’ fear of being left behind, their religious faith in education, and millions of ordinary people trying to find a place for themselves in a AI future Beijing is summoning on behalf of everyone.
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Earlier this week, @KaiserKuo and I chatted about this trilogy on the great @SinicaPodcast in detail and some behind-the-scenes stories. You can listen to it now (links in the comments)!
Also. Many thanks to my wonderful editor, Joy Shan; my fact-checker, Jessica Suriano; and some friends who read the draft and offered feedback.
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Some pretty jaw-dropping details in here
I asked Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand if it bothers her that her staff trades crypto while she works on legislation that benefits the industry. “This is not a nanny state,” she said.
Profiled crypto’s favorite Democrat for @NYMag:
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I asked Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand if it bothers her that her staff trades crypto while she works on legislation that benefits the industry. “This is not a nanny state,” she said.
Profiled crypto’s favorite Democrat for @NYMag:
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Hung out with Andrew Watt before he linked up with Michael Stipe in the studio: "Am I excitable? Abso-fucking-lutely" vulture.com/article/andrew-w…
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"some hunks, some twinks...that's the beauty of cinema" vulture.com/article/luca-gua…
ALT The teaser trailer features a scene of Altman bounding through his property, shirtless men scattered about like ornaments, before entering an underground lair with walls of guns, as though he has long been prepping for the doomsday scenario. “There was a comment on YouTube that said, ‘I’ve been a twink and I’ve been invited to parties and that’s how it was,’” Guadagnino says. “So I’m proud of that. It’s also really fun because it’s a bit ridiculous, right?” He describes a shot of Altman’s husband picking strawberries by hand in the garden and a maid cleaning the house. “And then the hunks!” he says. “Or the twinks, sorry. Some hunks, some twinks.” “Twunks,” I offer. “Twunks,” he agrees. “That’s the beauty of cinema. To create a world like that.”
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On the campaign trail and behind the scenes with Hasan Piker as he blew up into the most volatile and argued over force in American politics. My story in the latest issue of @nymag
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I finally got to interview Todd the God. "I represent the musicians who are supposed to get recognized but often get overlooked," he says. "All I have to do is keep the IRS at bay" vulture.com/article/todd-run…
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Finally had time to read the OTHER big Maine politics of the day by the great @rtraister, which has been getting litigated in my group texts all day. She has far more reporting inside the campaign than I do, but lots of it is consistent with what I'm seeing from the outside on the ground in Midcoast Maine (which may be different from other parts of state).
Many Dems I talk to feel like they still don't know Troy Jackson. Worry he's kind of MIA. Worry he's not doing enough public events to generate earned media to counter Collins' spend. Grass tops activists eager to help, but having trouble getting campaign to respond. Complaints about delayed deliveries of, you guessed it, yard signs.
There's lots of sympathy for Jackson and his campaign, acknowledging they were put in a tough situation and that it takes time to spin up. And many feel like it doesn't really matter since this race is all about Susan Colins anway. But early voting starts Oct. 5 and Demxiety is real. nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
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Stephen Morris isn’t beating the funniest drummer alive allegations vulture.com/article/stephen-…
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A campaign team that tries to sand down a candidate’s “rough” edges or hide the candidate’s authentic self completely misunderstands what voters are hungry for in 2026. Realllllly hope the Jackson staff takes the obvious frustration to heart here… nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
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Big day for Maine political news. My story about what's been going on with Troy Jackson's campaign, where fight between establishment & grassroots, so public around Platner, has moved inside the campaign, creating confusion & anger amongst supporters: nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
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I had the best day ever at Daisy Chain Fields last month and desperately wanted to talk to Kathleen Hanna all about it vulture.com/article/kathleen…
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The teams that oversee push notifications have quietly become some of the most important people in the newsroom: nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
