Matt Flegenheimer
National Politics Reporter at The New York Times
Reporter, @nytimes. ''Rob Thomas, circa 1998''-@NYTFridge
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Matt Flegenheimer
It was the three-word gavel-bang heard across Washington — the conversation-ender meant to cow colleagues and cabinet secretaries, deployed daily by a slight woman with a big job:“Elon wants this.”For months, Katie Miller, the all-purpose operative for the world’s richest man, had been entrusted to help execute Elon Musk’s merry rampage through the federal government, conveying his priorities, his vision, his likes and dislikes with the tacit force of an executive order.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Matt Flegenheimer
America's best-known sports-talker is hosting boldface Democrats and MAGA luminaries and teasing a 2028 run. But what he really wants is Joe Rogan-like influence, and things of that nature. Credit... Daniel Dorsa for The New York Times Stephen A. Smith has had something on his mind for a while now. "Let me switch to a subject near and dear to my heart," he said on his podcast recently. "Me."Mr. Smith, 57, is the terminally expressive face of sports media, ESPN's $100 million opinion-haver.
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Mar 8, 2025 |
businessandamerica.com | Matt Flegenheimer |Dana Rubinstein
Mayor Eric Adams won his office four years ago pledging to deliver New Yorkers from chaos and calamity — a former lawman entrusted to tame a proudly unruly city. It hasn’t happened that way. Over nearly 100 interviews with aides, allies and adversaries spanning Adams’s life and career, The Times Magazine found a mayor and a city unmoored, their fates entwined whether or not residents want them to be.
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Mar 8, 2025 |
nytimes.com | Matt Flegenheimer |Dana Rubinstein |Ashley Gilbertson
Mayor Eric Adams was milling around a Manhattan ballroom, tuxedoed and small-talking, on a Thursday night a few weeks before the 2024 election. Donald J. Trump made the first move. Since Adams's indictment in late September on federal corruption charges, those close to him told us, he had felt abandoned and isolated, a mayor unmoored. Here was a relative stranger, the once and future president, edging his way at a white-tie charity dinner.
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Mar 8, 2025 |
nytimes.com | Matt Flegenheimer |Dana Rubinstein
Mayor Eric Adams won his office four years ago pledging to deliver New Yorkers from chaos and calamity - a former lawman entrusted to tame a proudly unruly city. It hasn't happened that way. Over nearly 100 interviews with aides, allies and adversaries spanning Adams's life and career, The Times Magazine found a mayor and a city unmoored, their fates entwined whether or not residents want them to be.
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Stephen A. Smith would like to be Joe Rogan and things of that nature. https://t.co/YSMt4hYmEs
“I never count money,” Don King told me. “If you can count your money, you ain’t got none.” The decades-long, highly explicable, “only-in-America(n)” friendship of two men who never especially changed: https://t.co/TEWOcLP1Sz
"He was born," Mike Tyson told us, "in the perfect time." NYT dive (w/ the great @Bernstein) on Dana White, his value to Trump (and vice versa) and his high perch in the cage-match politics era: https://t.co/RJvFIsrbRM