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Illustration: Tim Bouckley They call him an opportunist and a vulture who’s capitalizing on a tragedy to promote his dangerous Medicare for All agenda. Over and over, they invoke his name alongside those of left-wingers the likes of Bernie Sanders. For the target of these attacks, Wendell Potter, it’s a familiar playbook — after all, […]

Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/Getty Images On Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced the latest in his ongoing volley of tariffs, levying a 25 percent tax on all automobiles and car parts imported into the United States. “I think our automobile industry will flourish like it hasn’t before,” he told reporters in the Oval Office. Though the

Photo: Kent Nishimura/Getty Images You have to figure Elise Stefanik has been getting pretty antsy lately. She announced way back on November 10 — so long ago that DOGE was just an evil glimmer in Elon Musk’s eyes — that Donald Trump had offered her the Cabinet-level position of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Photo: Kena Betancu/AFP/Getty Images If the capitulation of Columbia University to President Donald Trump was, in retrospect, inevitable, it was still among the darker moments in the modern history of academia. A prestigious, powerful institution that was, theoretically, dedicated to the concept of academic freedom had decided, in a matter of days, it was better

Illustration: Illustration by Owen Freeman This article was originally published in November 2020. It is now the basis of a Netflix docuseries, Gold & Greed: The Hunt for Fenn’s Treasure. Growing up in Arizona in the 1990s, Justin Posey wanted to be Indiana Jones. At age 9, he started wearing the archaeologist-adventurer’s trademark khaki pants,

Illustration: Illustration by Owen Freeman This article was originally published in November 2020. It is now the basis of a Netflix docuseries, Gold & Greed: The Hunt for Fenn’s Treasure. Growing up in Arizona in the 1990s, Justin Posey wanted to be Indiana Jones. At age 9, he started wearing the archaeologist-adventurer’s trademark khaki pants,

Photo: Richard Meek/Sports Illustrated/Getty Images The one constant through the years, James Earl Jones famously said as he stood in the middle of a cornfield, has been baseball. And as long as baseball has been a constant, so too has the umpire. The looming figure in blue with a booming voice and the personality of

John Filmanowicz Last October, William Banks posted on Instagram that he was looking for a subletter: $1,025 a month for eight months in a prewar building in Crown Heights with three roommates. It’s the kind of message that many New Yorkers put out, hoping to cover their rent during an arts residency or a luxurious

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: Getty Images There was a time in media when having a billionaire owner was an asset. For many outlets, this is still the case, particularly those publishing super-secretive group chats of powerful government officials who seem eager to trample on the rights of the press. But for others, like the Washington Post

Photo: Angelina Katsanis/POLITICO/AP Photo Just when you thought jingoistic gestures couldn’t get much dumber than Trump’s designs on Canada and Greenland, Colorado congresswoman Lauren Boebert outdid her idol by suggesting that plans are underway to rename the District of Columbia “the District of America.” Boebert was annoyed at Democrats for mocking Trump’s determination to rename