The Strategist

1 day ago | nymag.com | Ed Kilgore

It's been over seven months since the 2024 presidential election, and you might assume everything there is to be said about it has already been said, perhaps redundantly. But the data we had on the components of the electorate that fed Donald Trump's victory over Kamala Harris was pretty rough in November and has grown steadily more reliable. Now (minor tweaks notwithstanding), we may have something like the final word.

1 day ago | nymag.com | Ed Kilgore

The creaking legislative machine congressional Republicans are using to enact Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill is getting really noisy and inefficient as it clanks toward a self-imposed July 4 deadline. The math doesn't really add up anymore. There's a host of provisions, growing each day, that various Republicans swear they cannot support (Democrats are entirely irrelevant to the process).

1 day ago | nymag.com | Will Leitch

The biggest sporting event on the planet is not the Olympics - it's not even close. It's the World Cup, specifically the men's World Cup. (While the women's World Cup has grown dramatically in the past two decades and regularly bests the men's World Cup in American television ratings, in terms of revenue and scope I'm sad to say it's also not even close.) There is no sporting event like the World Cup.

2 days ago | nymag.com | Tembe Denton-Hurst

Photo-Illustration: The Strategist; Photos: Retailers For this week’s Don’t Dillydally, we’ve rounded up a range of newly released products we’re particularly excited about, including a “sexy” Art Deco shower curtain, a baguette bag charm, and a kids’ backpack. Chef Daniel Humm, owner of Eleven Madison Park and Clemente Bar, has collaborated with Crate & Barrel on a furniture collection.

2 days ago | nymag.com | Ed Kilgore

One of the reasons Zohran Mamdani's smashing victory yesterday created such a sensation is that public polls (overall) did a poor job of predicting the size and shape of both his and Andrew Cuomo's coalitions in the Democratic mayoral primary. An average of these polls prepared by Race to the WH showed Cuomo with 36.4 percent of first-choice ballots and Mamdani with 28.6 percent.