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Kushner used private email to conduct White House business
The senior adviser set up the account after the election. Other West Wing officials have also used private email accounts for official business.
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Fake News Problem Isn’t Going Away
Facebook has 2 billion users, record profits, vast influence, and big problems in Washington.
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Mark Zuckerberg Can’t Stop You From Reading This Because The Algorithms Have Already Won
And the machines are running the asylum.
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The Slutty Resurgence of New York's Underground Gay Sex Parties
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Ivanka Trump Used a Personal Email Account for Government Work: Exclusive
A White House spokesperson pointed out that Trump was not a federal employee at the time.
Tucker Carlson Is Sorry for Being Mean
A profile of the Fox News anchor, who started his media career as a promising magazine writer.
The David Carr Generation
Memories from journalists he mentored.
RT, Sputnik and Russia’s New Theory of War
How the Kremlin built one of the most powerful information weapons of the 21st century — and why it may be impossible to stop.
The Graduate
On navigating the New York media world as a young journalist.
The Weekly Package
In Cuba, hand-delivered hard drives bring the web into people’s homes.
It Took a Village
A history of the Village Voice.
Critical Failure
What happened to film critic Armond White?
The Secret Lives of Tumblr Teens
Inside a world where a user named Pizza can amass millions of followers, transform internet humor, get caught peddling diet pills in get-rich-quick schemes, and have her blog shut down—all before graduating high school.
The Fallout From Sportswriting's Filthiest Fuck-Up
Twenty years later, looking back at an infamous paragraph.
Down the Breitbart Hole
How dangerous is the media company that Steve Bannon called “the platform for the alt-right”?
How SB Nation Profits Off an Army of Exploited Workers
The underbelly of Vox Media’s success.
Zoë and the Trolls
Video-game designer Zoë Quinn in the aftermath of Gamergate, an act of web harassment with world-altering implications.
What Goes Up
How a daredevil helicopter pilot helped birth modern news.
Journalism Under Putin
“The murder of Anna Politkovskaya was at once unbelievable and utterly expected.”
Will I Get A Ticket?
A conversation with Lucinda Chambers shortly after she was fired from British Vogue, where she had been fashion editor for the last 25 years.
Is the Staggeringly Profitable Business of Scientific Publishing Bad for Science?
Inside the economics of scientific publishing, an industry that’s somehow nearly as profitable as film and has changed the course of science in the process.
The Not-So-Bitter Rivalry of Dean Baquet and Marty Baron
They’re friends who once vied for the same jobs. Now, as editors of The New York Times and The Washington Post, they’re locked in a daily battle for Trump scoops.
Covering the Cops
A profile of Edna Buchanan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning crime reporter for the Miami Herald during its heyday.
A Whimsical Wordsmith Charts a Course Beyond Twitter
Jonny Sun created a beloved, mega-popular alien character on Twitter. Now he’s trying to figure out everything else.
Welcome to Poppy's World
Her creepy, surreal YouTube videos have millions of views, but no one knows Poppy’s full story.
How The Jordan Rules Created the Era of NBA Gossip
Remembering the book that changed the way journalists covered the NBA.
East Side Story
Blazers and bloodbath near the 6 train.
Wanna Know What Donald Trump Is Really Thinking? Read Maggie Haberman
A profile of the New York Times White House correspondent.
Meet Matt Boyle, Breitbart’s (Other) Man in the White House
A profile of Steve Bannon’s 29-year-old protégé, the Washington bureau chief at Breitbart, who according to a former editor “has two modes: murder and blowjob.”
