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Matthew Belloni • September 17, 2024

The Plan to CAA-ify Talent Managers

TPG leveraged its investment in an agency into a $7 billion sale and $2.4 billion return. Can it run the same playbook in the management space?
Peter Hamby • September 16, 2024
The Swift-Rogan Election
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In a mostly static, coin-flip race, the election may be determined by whether Harris can win back young men—the hyper-impressionable, internet-addled demographic that was once a competitive advantage for Democrats and is now drifting toward Trump. Can she reverse that deficit in the next 49 days? Or is the post-Dobbs coalition enough?
William D. Cohan • September 15, 2024
Inside S.B.F.’s Legal Bunker
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Notes on Sam Bankman-Fried’s fiery 102-page appeal, his demand for a new trial, and why he argues that everyone—well, at least Judge Lewis Kaplan, FTX’s attorneys, and the media—was out to convict him from the start.
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John Ourand • September 9, 2024
Full Nielsen
After enraging the sports media community last year by attempting to integrate Amazon’s numbers into its data, Nielsen will use some first-party data in its calculations for the NFL this season. But the devil is in the details.
Pieter Mulier
Lauren Sherman • September 9, 2024
A Man for Alaïa Seasons
The fabulous Guggenheim show was a testament to Pieter Mulier’s slow, steady, post-founder re-creation of Alaïa. Both Mulier and Alaïa are just what the industry needs right now… so hopefully he doesn’t bolt for Chanel.
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Matthew Belloni • September 6, 2024
Hollywood’s 10 Percent Problem
According to a new study, only one-tenth of the 500+ movies either released or scheduled for release by the major studios and streamers between 2022 and 2026 actually came from an internal development slate. Is this the new normal, or a wake-up call that the system has become far too risk-averse?
A conversation surrounding the state of the post-Biden Democratic Party, and whether Barack Obama is right that most Americans want to get along.
John Heilemann • September 1, 2024
A Biden Retrospective & An Obama Distillation
In a candid conversation, the Times’ Nicholas Kristof diagnoses the Democrats’ Thanksgiving challenge, looks back at the year of magical thinking about Joe Biden, assesses Tim Walz’s talent, and much, much more.
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Marion Maneker • September 1, 2024
The Kornfeld Stimulus Plan
I wouldn’t say that the immediate future of the art market depends entirely on the forthcoming sale of the late auctioneer’s extraordinary personal collection—Munch, Monet, Mondrian, Klee, Seurat, Degas, Kirchner, Giacometti, etcetera—but it should be a harbinger.
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John Ourand • August 26, 2024
Bend It Like Berman
National Women’s Soccer League commissioner Jessica Berman opens up about the league’s new partnerships, the soaring value of Angel City FC, expansion, and her long-term labor peace.
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Peter Hamby • August 26, 2024
Country First Kamala
In a new post-convention poll from Puck and Echelon Insights, Harris’s hard pivot from progressive to patriot appears to have neutralized Trump’s advantage on issues like toughness, strength, and keeping the country safe. Meanwhile, almost nobody knows what it means to be “brat.”