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Mitt Romney
Theodore Schleifer December 20, 2022
A blunt retrospective with Peter Hamby about partisan myopia, Twitter echo chambers, and the most underrated political narratives heading into 2024.
peter thiel
Theodore Schleifer December 15, 2022
Thiel’s first public comments since his midterm shellacking were a searing indictment of the G.O.P.—and a three-point playbook for 2024.
s.b.f.
Theodore Schleifer December 14, 2022
Inside the Bankman-Fried indictment is a tantalizing footnote to its most explosive allegations: a massive money-in-politics scandal. Here’s how to decode the various theories making the rounds over the last 24 hours—what’s real, what’s bullshit, and what we still don’t know.
Sam Bankman-Fried
Theodore Schleifer December 13, 2022
At the core of the S.B.F. dilemma is the brainy academic milieu in which he came of age: a place where effective altruism was discussed at the dinner table, shape-shifting was au naturel, and the pursuit of an ethical life undergirded it all.


s.b.f. interview
Theodore Schleifer December 6, 2022
An occasionally chilling conversation with Sam Bankman-Fried about accountability, naivety, family, prison, politics, and the strategy embedded in his walk of shame.
s.b.f.
Theodore Schleifer & Eriq Gardner December 5, 2022
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?
Mitch McConnell
Theodore Schleifer December 2, 2022
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.
Peter Thiel
Theodore Schleifer November 30, 2022
News on Thiel’s Arizona “blackpilling” and Hakeem Jeffries’ first great Democracy Alliance donor gauntlet.


Sam Bankman-Fried
Theodore Schleifer November 29, 2022
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.
s.b.f.
Theodore Schleifer November 23, 2022
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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