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Julia Ioffe
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February 15, 2024
Catch-47
Barak Ravid has become one of D.C.’s most well-wired reporters during the Iran war, leveraging a direct line to the White House into endless scoops about the negotiations between Washington and Tehran. But what happens when your best source is an unreliable narrator?
Ian Krietzberg
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February 15, 2024
The Brain Trust
Of all the altruistic promises of A.I., none has been as tantalizing to frontier labs as curing disease. The Allen Institute has now launched an ambitious tech-fueled initiative, with $400 million and dozens of high-powered partnerships, to attack the most tantalizing target of all: brain disease.
Lauren Sherman
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February 15, 2024
Loro Piana Man
Frédéric Arnault, beloved son and École Polytechnique graduate, is using his perch as C.E.O. of Loro Piana to implement a key strategic change that’s been years in the making, and could secure the brand’s position in the top three of LVMH’s fashion and leather goods division.
Julia Alexander
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February 15, 2024
Fox’s Creator Studios Doesn’t Care Where You Watch… as Long as You’re Watching
Studios and streamers have had mixed success trying to graft YouTube stars onto their own platforms. Fox’s new Creator Studios is trying something different: investing in I.P. across the internet, regardless of where it shows up.
Marianna Sotomayor
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February 15, 2024
Mike Johnson’s Victory and a Half
After helping get Trump to drop his “anti-weaponization” fund to get DHS funded, Mike Johnson faces another challenge, and his name is Bill Pulte.
John Heilemann
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February 15, 2024
Trump’s Blanche Check
An extremely candid conversation with Andrew Weissmann, the former lead prosecutor in the Mueller investigation, about Trump’s slush fund, the Comey indictment, and a man for whom he has special loathing: acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.
Dylan Byers
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February 15, 2024
The Bari Matchmaking Sweepstakes
By all accounts, Bari Weiss could use some help running CBS News. But hiring the right executive with the right skills will be tricky, especially when the usual suspects are probably too cautious, myopic, or smart to join the gang.
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Rachel Strugatz
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February 15, 2024
Trickle Down Blazy-nomics
Chanel insiders are wondering when—and how—the Matthieu Blazy effect will start to bolster the brand’s skincare and makeup categories.
Marion Maneker
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February 15, 2024
Condition Report: Cybele Maylone, The Aldrich Museum
The director of Ridgefield’s overachieving contemporary art museum is turning her institution’s gaze to Connecticut artists, making a case for the Constitution State as something more than the land of finance bros and old WASPs.
William D. Cohan
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February 15, 2024
Free Solomon
My candid chat with Goldman C.E.O. David Solomon.
Marianna Sotomayor
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February 15, 2024
Espaillat Goes Negative
As outside spending sluices into the Democratic primary for New York’s 13th District, the candidates are attacking one another over respective donors.
Leigh Ann Caldwell
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February 15, 2024
The Bipartisan Problem-Starters Caucus
An event honoring female veterans, hosted by the House Bipartisan Women’s Caucus, has been canceled for the first time in its 28-year history, in part over its D.E.I. connotations.
Lauren Sherman & Malique Morris
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February 15, 2024
Chanel’s Hardcore Hard Luxury Play
With a new hire to run fine jewelry, the house is looking to make waves in the category. Plus some modest Ssense pay bumps and Apple developer conference fit-ology.
Eriq Gardner
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February 15, 2024
Netflix’s “Dark Patterns” & A New Legal Front in the Platform Wars
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general running for Senate, is suing Netflix for being too appealing to kids. It might be a long shot, but the power of recommendation algorithms has never really been litigated—and Netflix, along with TikTok, may be in more trouble than it seems.
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Peter Hamby
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February 15, 2024
Fahrenheit 250
The nation is feeling queasy about celebrating its birthday in the Trump era—but the national political narrative feels distinct from how regular Americans actually view their country, at least according to some fascinating focus groups.
John Ourand
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February 15, 2024
YouTube’s NFL Discipline & NFL Partner Math
Rich Greenfield, the LightShed partner and sports guru, weighs in on the looming NFL rights renegotiation bonanza: who wins, who blinks first, and why the league still has all the leverage in the post-cord-cutting era.
Malique Morris
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February 15, 2024
Make Net-a-Porter Great Again
The Mytheresa-ification of Net-a-Porter is underway, but can LuxExperience C.E.O. Michael Kliger remind customers why they loved the platform in the first place?
Jamie Lincoln Kitman
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February 15, 2024
The Nissan Skyline R34 Named Desire
The collectible car market is finally moving past its beloved Boomer classics as a younger, Nintendo-raised generation chases high-performance Japanese rarities never meant for the American market. $2 million for a 20-year-old Nissan? That’s just the beginning.
John Heilemann
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February 15, 2024
The Optimist’s Case for A.I.
An unusually uplifting conversation with Josh Tyrangiel, the longtime media executive and journalist, about more than just the dreams and schemes of A.I.’s poster boys: namely, where the technology is being deployed to do real work, how it can benefit medicine and government, and whether our political leaders can keep up.
Kim Masters
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February 15, 2024
Bari’s War of Ideology & How Scorsese Embraced A.I.
News and notes from around town: It’s been a disastrous stretch for CBS News, so what’s still making Bari Weiss tick? Plus, the backstory on how Michael Ovitz procured Martin Scorsese’s endorsement for an A.I. startup that riles up the creative community.
Marianna Sotomayor
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February 15, 2024
The Other Maine Event
In the vast 2nd congressional district, four primary candidates are fighting to succeed Jared Golden—and become a general-election underdog to G.O.P. former Gov. Paul LePage.