THE LATEST ARTICLES
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December 6, 2022
The Confessions of S.B.F.
An occasionally chilling conversation with Sam Bankman-Fried about accountability, naivety, family, prison, politics, and the strategy embedded in his walk of shame.
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December 5, 2022
The S.B.F. Legal Meteor
Puck’s Teddy Schleifer and Eriq Gardner discuss the litigation minefield, financial casualties, and political backlash after the FTX supernova: Who’s getting sued? How will Washington crack down? Can crypto investors recover? And will Sam Bankman-Fried go to jail?
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December 2, 2022
S.B.F.’s McConnell Money Tickle
In his previous life as crypto boy king, S.B.F. was fetishized as a modern Soros. But he cared about power and relevance, which is why, yes, he gave some dark-money to Republicans, too.
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November 29, 2022
Thiel’s Midterm Hangover & More Hakeemology
News on Thiel’s Arizona “blackpilling” and Hakeem Jeffries’ first great Democracy Alliance donor gauntlet.
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November 28, 2022
An S.B.F. Ally in the Barrel
Sean McElwee, the ur-connected political operative, is the latest to get singed by the FTX scandal following a no-confidence vote at Data for Progress. His exit speaks volumes, not only about Sam Bankman-Fried, but about the power of social media contagion.
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November 22, 2022
The Lost Gospel of S.B.F.
New revelations illuminating the world-changing ambitions, aborted blueprints, utopian projects, and democracy-transforming money-bombs emanating from S.B.F., Inc., before the crypto billionaire’s house of cards came crashing down.
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November 18, 2022
The Bankman-Fried Mystique
A clear-eyed assessment of the past and future of the crypto-political-philanthropic machine, some two weeks after his scandal erupted.
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November 15, 2022
Inside the S.B.F. Blast Radius
The fate of Sam Bankman-Fried is being closely tracked at the highest levels of the Democratic Party, and by the dozens of allied political groups that are either racing to distance themselves from his surname or to find their next check.
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November 11, 2022
The S.B.F. Pandemic
The Bankman-Fried industrial complex is imploding, with massive turmoil brewing for the donor who was seen as the Democratic Party’s next great hope. Does all of that money just disappear?
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November 9, 2022
The Achilles Thiel
As Peter Thiel poured $33 million into his acolytes J.D. Vance and Blake Masters, Republican power brokers fantasized that they had found their heir to Sheldon Adelson or the Koch Brothers. The truth, it turns out, is quite different.