April 2025

America May Be Staring Down ‘Economic Armageddon’

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images Markets around the world plunged on Thursday after President Trump imposed harsh across-the-board tariffs, igniting a probable global trade war. And if there were any hopes that Trump’s tariffs were merely a negotiating tactic, the White House attempted to squash them. Amid the chaos, I spoke with Dan Ives, the […]

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Intel’s New CEO Lip-Bu Tan Lays Out His Plan to Turn Around the Troubled Chipmaker

Earlier this week, Intel’s new CEO Lip-Bu Tan delivered a keynote speech at the Intel Vision conference—just 14 days into his tenure. He takes the reins at a critical moment for the once-dominant American chipmaker, now struggling to keep pace with rivals amid the A.I. boom. Intel still holds a commanding share of the CPU

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Newly ‘Independent’ Mayor Eric Adams Rails Against Democrats in Forum Debut

Mayor Eric Adams and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo appeared at a candidate forum for the first time on Thursday at a carefully choreographed event with nine mayoral hopefuls moderated by the Rev. Al Sharpton.  A defiant Adams railed against the Democratic Party and former allies at the National Action Network’s annual convention in Times Square

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Rikers Island Forced to Reopen Closed Jail as Understaffed State Prisons Refuse Transfers

The Adams administration is preparing to reopen a jail facility on Rikers Island to add space for convicted people who should be moved to state custody but can’t right now because of post-strike chaos.  The city Department of Correction is set to once again house detainees inside a small section of the Anna M. Kross

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Opinion: New Yorkers Support Community-Based Safety Solutions. You Just Have to Ask.

“When polls only ask people how they feel about ‘tough-on-crime’ solutions, they receive only validation for those very solutions.” A rally last year in support of the city’s mental health clubhouses. (Gerardo Romo/NYC Council Media Unit) As budget negotiations continue in Albany and the mayoral primary heats up in New York City, more and more

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Fusing Virtual World-Building and Brushwork, Emma Webster Reimagines the Landscape Tradition

Pushing the limits of figuration and abstraction and of fiction and fantasy in our relationship to nature, British-American artist Emma Webster has embarked on an aesthetic, philosophical and spiritual examination of contemporary perceptions of landscape, navigating the slippery terrain between sensorial reality and digital manipulation. She debuted new works during Art Basel Hong Kong at

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Amid Deepening Malaise, Radhika Jones Leaves Vanity Fair

Photo: Roy Rochlin/Getty Images Shortly after noon on Thursday, the staff at Vanity Fair received an email from Condé Nast’s Anna Wintour inviting them to a meeting with editor-in-chief Radhika Jones. To the surprise of almost everyone, including most of the magazine’s senior-most editors, a visibly emotional Wintour announced that Jones would be stepping down

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Fannie Mae, BNY accused of inflating rates on local loan foreclosures

Home lenders and their partners have been cheating New Yorkers by inflating what they owed on home equity loans that fell into foreclosure, according to lawsuits filed Thursday. The systematic miscalculations diverted thousands of dollars from people who fell behind on loans, homeowners said in documents filed in federal court in Brooklyn. The discrepancies allegedly

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