Jacob Rosenberg

He dated Allen Ginsberg, partied with Steve Rubell, and somehow has one of the buzziest albums of 2026. It only gets stranger from there.

From my new profile of Angie Nixon for New York Magazine: nymag.com/intelligence...

Fascinating to think that a post from a student in Boston started mass protests in India (and yet barely makes headlines in the US) www.equator.org/articles/coc...

Post presidency Obama loves to tell press through aides he's offering himself privately as a "sounding board"

The former owner and sporting director of Chelsea, the guys who built Qatar's World Cup stadiums, the brother of the owner of City Football Group, the brother of the guy who tried to buy the World Cup and the FIFA Peace Prize recipient plan to end the war in Ukraine by doing an oil deal with Putin

"Emirati officials have warned the UK government that the severity of the ruling could undermine their appetite for future grand-scale UK commitments, according to people familiar with the matter." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"'I saw him laying there,' she remembers. 'I saw him all bloodied.' 'What am I going to tell my daughter?' she asked aloud, in a haze." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/24/m...

Integration efforts of the 1950s were part of a movement. Today, Black parents are left with an unequal system and an uncoordinated push to change it.

i don't like that i feel like we're all getting dragged against our will into an all-media all-the-time LessWrong thread, an insanely annoying and disorienting experience that most people do not have sufficient experience or mental preparations to deal with

Nick Shirley’s videos on fraud helped push Trump to target Minneapolis. They were just the start of a ‘beautiful synergy.’

they just gave $70 billion in new funding to ICE, an agency *invented* after 9/11, but for people being slowly killed by 9/11 they had to pull out a street map to get anything nymag.com/intelligence...

Colleges are testing new ways to catch AI use. It largely isn’t helping. Instead of doing their work, many students are spending their time getting better at fooling AI detectors or degrading the tech’s output enough to make it look like a student’s.

The collapse of the towers is still sickening people. nymag.com/intelligence...

As we approach the 25th anniversary of 9/11 and remember all those who were lost, this is something I wrote for New York magazine looking at the tens of thousands of people who have since gotten sick. I am one of them. Here is the story of the ongoing tragedy of that day.

The picture most people have of a 9/11 victim does not include a growing group: the people who lived or worked near the World Trade Center — pushed to return to normal after the attack — who have since been diagnosed with serious illness.

Belatedly: From "The Heart of Rock & Soul." Among the best 800 words of pop music criticism ever written.

www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/28/t...

For Trump, noncitizen voting is the death of America. For liberals, past efforts to expand it in local elections are ‘Woke 1’ excess. How did the idea of some form of noncitizen voting become so terrifying?

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I hope this gets a wider release. This series of films is really wonderful. www.vulture.com/article/revi...

Private travel leagues have made youth sports expensive, hypercompetitive, and all-consuming for families. At least investors are making a killing.

Against the wind: despite Trump’s attacks, unions are fighting for good US clean energy jobs: Since Hurricane Sandy in 2012, a growing labor movement has addressed the climate crisis and economic inequality Ryan McElroen had spent years repairing the New York City subway underground when ...

Feel like this nicely encapsulates my least favorite way of thinking about "politics"

Hadn't thought about that to be honest www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/m...

A unique report from southern Lebanon. Mary Turfah—a resident surgeon with family who has been wounded in the country—visits both her family, who have been bombed, and the paramedics trying to save those attacked. It's a dispatch a bit unlike anything I've read before: nymag.com/intelligence...

A unique report from southern Lebanon. Mary Turfah—a resident surgeon with family who has been wounded in the country—visits both her family, who have been bombed, and the paramedics trying to save those attacked. It's a dispatch a bit unlike anything I've read before: nymag.com/intelligence...

ICE is offering police departments financial incentives to cooperate, which leads to more traffic stops, which leads to deportations, which led to the horrific murder of Glendy Marisol González de la Cruz and Nixon Giovanni Pérez Paz www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This seems like a big deal: Walmart signs its first ever union contract, at a distribution center in Toronto. Good discussion at Phenomenal World's new labor vertical. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/wal...

How a community of porn addicts tried to rescue the teenage camgirls they worshipped from the clutches of a violent Andrew Tate acolyte.

“The paramedics Israel is targeting in Lebanon are volunteers — jeopardizing their lives not to earn a living, but to help in their spare time,” writes Mary Turfah. The risks they’re taking are clear. And they are offered the option to leave. Very few of them do.

Savanna Batten went to an anti-ICE protest. Now she’s serving 50 years in federal prison.

How a suburban mom working at a seafood restaurant became a fugitive in Mexico and accidental cartel queen.

SCOOP: I obtained documents revealing the FBI used Cellebrite to extract data from at least 13 protesters' phones after a mass arrest at an anti-ICE protest in Spokane last summer. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Alan Greenspan, influential economic policymaker whom I once terrified at a party, is dead: defector.com/alan-greensp...

The Clubbed Thumb people just added a Fri matinee for Derangements, which is the first show to reduce me to helpless gasping laughter this year. When I say playwright Nadja Leonhard-Hooper has EXACTLY matched Danny Wolohan’s freak, I know some of you understand what’s at stake. Get on the waitlist

How a Long Island grandma and a crew of volunteer firefighters helped facilitate a ballot hijacking that changed New York elections forever.

A really interesting and important (and less covered story): How the *other* Amazon unionization effort — for all the drivers that are subcontractors — has been slowed www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Aww friends!

“I was struck with a taser, beaten with punches and kicks, insulted and humiliated. ... You entered through one door and a group of six or seven people would beat you mercilessly until you emerged from the other side.” apnews.com/article/gaza...

This is wild. nymag.com/intelligence...