Clare Malone

The founder of “House Inhabit” has grown her audience during the second Trump Administration with political gossip and what she calls “quality conspiracy.”

From the daily newsletter: how Jessica Reed Kraus has become a face of the new right-wing media.

The upheaval under Bondi has left the Justice Department hollowed out, with consequences likely to outlast her tenure and reshape the institution itself.

Donald Trump’s unpopularity hasn’t translated into strength among the Democratic Party. Why are key blocs of voters drifting away?

From the daily newsletter: what, exactly, is happening at the paper that brought down Richard Nixon. Plus: the economic foreshadowing in Warren Buffett’s retirement.

The Amazon founder was once thought to be the newspaper’s savior—now its journalists are fleeing for the exits. Clare Malone reports on how the paper that brought down Nixon is struggling to survive the second term of Trump.

For the first time in modern American history, a skeptic of medical research could be responsible for safeguarding public health.

The billionaire Frank McCourt is launching a “people’s bid” to buy the app, replace its addictive algorithm, and give users greater control of their data. Is it a publicity stunt or a sincere attempt to reform the digital age?

Peter van Agtmael’s images of war and domestic strife are arresting and almost cinematically spare, but it is the careful narrative arc of his new book, “Look at the U.S.A.,” that deepens the viewer’s experience.

From the daily newsletter: Clare Malone on R.F.K., Jr.,’s health crusade. Plus: more on Trump’s extreme Cabinet; the naïveté of post-election despair; and the gripping drama of “Say Nothing.”

From the daily newsletter: a shocking new poll. Plus: civil-war prep; courting the Kamala Harris vote; and the life of Quincy Jones.

Lackawanna County was once a Democratic stronghold. In 2024, it is a hotly contested battleground, where the stakes go far beyond politics.

The former President’s appeal has always been his sui-generis persona and politics—take him as he is—but, this year, the campaign seems more devoted to fan service than anything else.

As Kennedy’s 2024 election campaign collapses, he has embraced a new role as the former President’s latest ally.

The Times columnist was an early advocate for replacing Joe Biden at the top of the ticket; in recent weeks, his podcast has seemed like the smoke-filled back room of the Democratic Party.

The third-party Presidential candidate has a troubled past, a shambolic campaign, and some surprisingly good poll numbers.

If the Kahn era has been defined by anything so far, it is this struggle to police the newsroom culture at a moment when the paper’s size and influence have never been greater. According to one estimate, nearly seven per cent of American newspaper employees now work at the Times. The growth comes as almost every other corner of media has been beset by layoffs. The Times has become indispensable in readers’ lives but also an institution that sparks frustration across the political spectrum. In ou…

Is Hunterbrook Media a News Outlet or a Hedge Fund?

But, even by the standards of modern American politics, Cheung’s rhetoric can be shocking. “It’s downright bewildering why [Ron DeSantis] would cuck himself in front of the entire country who clearly doesn’t want him as president,” an official campaign statement that went out from Cheung last September read. In another, Cheung referenced the Trump campaign’s theory that DeSantis’s signature cowboy boots disguised high-heel lifts: “Ron shuffled his feet and gingerly walked across the debate set l…

I’ve thought a lot about that advice in the past year. A report that tracked layoffs in the industry in 2023 recorded twenty-six hundred and eighty-one in broadcast, print, and digital news media. NBC News, Vox Media, Vice News, Business Insider, Spotify, theSkimm, FiveThirtyEight, The Athletic, and Condé Nast—the publisher of The New Yorker—all made significant layoffs. BuzzFeed News closed, as did Gawker. The Washington Post, which lost about a hundred million dollars last year, offered buyout…