The Math Nerd Who Taught Poker to Think
David Sklansky died March 23, but the New York Times didn't notice for 19 days — a gap that tells you everything about how America processes its subcultural geniuses.
Maya Calloway
Bureau: New York
Justin Fairfax Bought the Gun With the Kids' Horseback-Riding Money
Court filings show Justin Fairfax bought the murder weapon with money set aside for his children's horseback lessons, two weeks before the divorce would have been final.
MacKenzie Scott Has Given a Billion to the Schools the Administration Is Squeezing
Her giving patterns map the schools this administration is not targeting; one pattern implies the other.
Eliot Engel, 79, Held a Bronx Seat for Thirty-Two Years and Lost It in One Sentence
The Foreign Affairs chair whose 2020 epitaph was a hot mic — a career ended by the exact indifference it had been built to conceal.
Your Tax Refund Is Late Because the IRS Has 27 Percent Fewer People
The IRS is a smaller agency than it was a year ago, and the refund check is where the shrinkage becomes visible to the taxpayer.
Home Depot's Five-Day Mandate Moves the 2026 RTO Tracker From Forecast to Record
Five days a week effective April 6, 800 corporate cuts on top, and remote work at 22.6 percent nationally — the rollback is no longer coming, it is here.
A Month After the Rialto Evacuation, 350 Orlando Residents Have Nowhere to Go
Evacuated March 19 for structural failure, denied FEMA aid for lack of a federal disaster, hit with hundreds of code violations — the Rialto is a template.