When Private Equity Comes for Your Favorite Team
Last week, the owner of the Los Angeles Lakers announced he was selling the basketball team for $12.5 billion — the highest price ever paid for a professional sports team. The deal has shocked the spo...
21 Aug 34min
Who Moves Up, and Who's Pushed Out, in Pete Hegseth's Military
For the past 18 months, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has remade the top ranks of the U.S. military — dismissing or sidelining many whose rise he believes was aided by D.E.I. and replacing them with ...
20 Aug 30min
El Niño Is Back. And Worse Than Ever.
The global chaos agent known as El Niño is back, and this year it’s already on track to be, by far, the strongest and most severe on record, wreaking havoc on weather across the world. Today, Chico Ha...
19 Aug 23min
What Went Wrong on the U.S.S. Lincoln?
For the past two weeks, family members of sailors have been raising alarms about the conditions aboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, which has a crew of about 5,000 and has been at sea for almost nine m...
18 Aug 28min
Luigi Mangione’s High-Risk Legal Strategy
In the two years since a masked man shot and killed a health care executive, the national spotlight has turned to the primary suspect, Luigi Mangione. The overwhelming evidence has pointed to his guil...
17 Aug 24min
What Makes a Killer Thriller?
The New York Times Book Review recently released its list of the 50 best thrillers of the 21st century. To put it together, the team asked almost 300 authors and other experts to vote for the best hea...
16 Aug 42min
The Charming, Amusing, Surprisingly Low-Confidence Matthew Rhys
The “Widow’s Bay” star on his two Emmy nominations, his penchant for going dark and his wobbly self-esteem. Thoughts? Email us at theinterview@nytimes.com Watch our show on YouTube: youtube.com/@Th...
15 Aug 47min
The Secret Spy Network Feeding Russia’s War Machine
Ukraine is running desperately low on interceptor missiles, leaving its cities and people nearly defenseless against Russian missile and drone attacks. How Russia has been able to sustain those attack...
14 Aug 31min
