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1 week ago | 
nymag.com | Matt Stieb
Since Donald Trump launched his meme coin on his inauguration weekend, Democrats haven't made too much noise about the president's efforts to make money in crypto, despite the obvious potential for corruption.
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1 week ago | 
nymag.com | Matt Stieb
Since last Monday, Newark Liberty Airport has been a mess, with as many as 30 percent of flights delayed and 10 percent canceled each day. The acute problem was reported by the press as a walkout among a group of air traffic controllers who stopped working over the weekend due to chronic labor shortages faced in the industry. One air traffic controller told MSNBC that it was "not safe to fly" into the nation's 12th busiest airport.
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1 week ago | 
nymag.com | Matt Stieb
President Donald Trump is planning a trip to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates in mid-May, where White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said he will be "strengthening ties" with regional leaders. After this week, those ties are going to be quite strong, thanks to a bunch of money coming his way from regional leaders in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Matt Stieb
15 hours agoImage source, Getty Images The signing of the much-anticipated natural resources deal has been warmly welcomed by both Ukrainian and US officials today, after it was announced on Wednesday. Here's a recap of the significant developments since then: The "Reconstruction Investment Fund" agreement - now …
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1 week ago | 
nymag.com | Matt Stieb
At least Donald Trump's Cabinet made it intact until the 101st day of his presidency. National security adviser Mike Waltz is expected to step down on Thursday in the first shake-up among the president's top advisers. The development, reported first by CBS News, comes just over a month after Waltz faced a barrage of criticism for adding The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg to a group chat on Signal in which Cabinet officials discussed war plans for a strike in Yemen.
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2 weeks ago | 
nymag.com | Matt Stieb
For over 50 years, a top environmental-science journal has been an influential clearinghouse for research on how pollutants like lead, forever chemicals, and polluted air impact our lives. But in the coming months, the journal, Environmental Health Perspectives, will indefinitely pause the publication of new research due to budget cuts at the National Institutes of Health. "It's going to a real loss," said deputy editor Dana Boyd Barr, a professor at Emory's Rollins School of Public Health.
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2 weeks ago | 
nymag.com | Matt Stieb
President Donald Trump held a rare televised cabinet meeting on Wednesday to commemorate the achievements of his first 100 days in office, which include gutting large parts of the federal government, starting an economically damaging trade war, and wrongfully deporting innocent people to El Salvador. "We have a lot of things going," Trump said, accurately enough.
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2 weeks ago | 
nymag.com | Matt Stieb
Calvin Darden Jr. was living it up in New York City and other people were paying for it. It was the early 2000s and Darden, a graduate of Howard University, was rising as a broker in top financial institutions like Salomon Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and Wachovia. He had an apartment on Wall Street and an uncanny ability to make business deals and get close to celebrities. "I was trying to hook him up with my sister because he was a young entrepreneur," said Cheryl James, the Salt in Salt-N-Pepa.
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3 weeks ago | 
nymag.com | Matt Stieb
Over the past four months, President Trump's entry into the world of cryptocurrency has been extremely fruitful and extremely unregulated, thanks to the fact that his administration has stripped pretty much all regulations from this world. But one of the president's many crypto ventures - and probably the dumbest one yet - was facing a potential disaster scenario in the last few days. The Trump meme coin is a token with no discernible value other than betting on the fate of the presidency.
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1 month ago | 
nymag.com | Matt Stieb
At any given time, there are a lot of people who are upset with Bryan Johnson, the very online guy who wants to live forever. The entrepreneur, philosopher, and "rejuvenation athlete" is in pursuit of the lofty goal of not dying. If he can't do that, he intends to at least slow down his own aging by taking 50-plus pills a day and eating his dinner around noon. At 47, his skin looks pretty good, if a little Draculean from years of abstaining from sunlight.
