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Photo: Steph Chambers/Getty Images The general consensus is that this year’s NCAA Tournament has been a huge bummer so far. This is, the thinking goes, primarily because it has lacked the driving force of the best tournaments of the past: Upsets. There is no St. Peter’s this year, no Fairleigh Dickinson, no Northwestern State. In […]

Photo: Claudine Doury/Agence VU’/Redux It is exceptionally hard to know how long long-lived animals endure. For the vast majority of species there are no growth rings to count, no blood tests to perform, no methods beyond marking time. The way scientists assess the longevity of wild animals is to tag them, go away, and hope

Photo: Al Drago/Bloomberg/Getty Images It’s not often that the U.S. Supreme Court sees a lawsuit that directly invites it to overturn a long-established precedent. So given the overall atmosphere of authoritarianism and Donald Trump’s very specific and long-standing interest in muzzling media criticism, many legal eagles trembled when Las Vegas casino mogul and Trump donor

Photo: Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images After the debacle over Senate passage of a spending bill earlier this month, it’s abundantly clear that congressional Democrats do not have the power to get in the way of Donald Trump’s aggressive 2025 plans. The administration and its own congressional allies now plan to bundle most of his legislative agenda

Photo: Christian Klindt Soelbeck/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP/Getty Images Donald Trump’s expansionist dreams have become a hallmark of his second term. The president continues to advocate for the annexation of Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal despite the strong opposition of the involved citizens and their leaders. The administration has announced its plans to send a delegation to

Getty Images Some rare daylight showed up today, displaying for the first time that J.D. Vance and his best friend and boss, Donald Trump, do not march in lockstep. In an jaw-dropping report today from The Atlantic, editor Jeffrey Goldberg revealed that earlier this month he was added to a private Signal chat group with

Photo: Thomas Peipert/AP Photo Between bullying America’s allies, harassing federal judges, and acting as an amateur Tesla salesman, Donald Trump has a lot on his plate. But the president took a break from his busy schedule to complain about a portrait of him that’s been hanging in the Colorado State Capitol for five years. In

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: AP Images If éminences grises like Graydon Carter embody the glory days of New York print media in the 1980s and ’90s, Nick Denton is perhaps the prime avatar of the city’s freewheeling early digital media era. Denton founded Gawker Media in 2002, and oversaw its expansion into a profitable mini-media empire

Photo: Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Getty Images Not so long ago, the F-35 fighter jet was the hottest ticket in the international arms market. Though it had suffered teething pains in development, going over budget by 50 percent in its first decade, Lockheed Martin’s Lightning II glowed up into a remarkably capable weapons platform. Stealthy, supersonic, and

Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images For most of its existence, Tesla being synonymous with Elon Musk has been an asset for the company. Though the world’s richest man was often embroiled in weird public scandals, customers and investors largely waved off his behavior and continued to adore Tesla — presuming that the benefits Musk