Jacob Rosenberg
@jacobrosenberg.bsky.social
Features Editor @nymag.com, jacob.rosenberg@nymag.com || former Mother Jones, Arkansas Times || "As for the scoffers, He scoffs at them"
He dated Allen Ginsberg, partied with Steve Rubell, and somehow has one of the buzziest albums of 2026. It only gets stranger from there.
Can Nirosta Steel Survive His Sudden Success?
He dated Allen Ginsberg, partied with Steve Rubell, and somehow has one of the buzziest albums of 2026. It only gets stranger from there.
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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...
Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous • EQUATOR
The student protesters who have swarmed Delhi are showing us a different future for India
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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...
Manchester City Verdict Strains UK-UAE Diplomatic Relations
A historic legal ruling against Manchester City Football Club has placed diplomatic ties between the UK and the United Arab Emirates under significant strain, with billions of pounds in projected fore...
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"'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...
An ICE agent shot and killed her partner in Maine. Now, she wants justice. - The Boston Globe
In her first sit-down interview with a newspaper, Martha Karolina Rojas Alvarez called for justice to be carried out for the killing of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, her partner and father of their ...
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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.
No One Can Fix School Segregation Alone
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.
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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.’
How Nick Shirley Became Republicans’ Favorite Poster
Nick Shirley’s videos on fraud helped push Trump to target Minneapolis. They were just the start of a ‘beautiful synergy.’
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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 College Students Finding New Ways to Cheat With AI
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.
nymag.com
The collapse of the towers is still sickening people. nymag.com/intelligence...
The Other Victims of 9/11
Twenty-five years after the attack, tens of thousands of people have gotten sick. I am one of them.
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This is a wild story of how Oklahoma prisons have incarcerated people doing push-polling for PACs www.governing.com/workforce/wh...
When Your Call Center Is Inside a Prison
Oklahoma allowed private companies to employ incarcerated workers for outside calling campaigns, including work that ultimately reached a presidential campaign.
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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 Other Victims of 9/11
Twenty-five years after the attack, tens of thousands of people have gotten sick. I am one of them.
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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.
The Other Victims of 9/11
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.
nymag.com
Belatedly: From "The Heart of Rock & Soul." Among the best 800 words of pop music criticism ever written.
Jack Hamilton@jackhamilton.bsky.social · 2mo agoRIP Dave Marsh, a writer who changed my life. a few years ago I wrote this about him slate.com/culture/2023...
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?
The Fear of Noncitizen Voting
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 rang charley crockett last week to try and cut through the noise and figure out what went left with jack white and twin temple www.vulture.com/article/char...
Charley Crockett Thinks Jack White Missed the Point
The country singer says the established rocker and liberal fans maligned him over a misunderstanding of his politics.
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I hope this gets a wider release. This series of films is really wonderful. www.vulture.com/article/revi...
The Bend in the River Is a Poignant, Profound Look at a Changing World
Director Robb Moss chronicles his friends’ lives from the glories of youth to the consolations of old age.
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Private travel leagues have made youth sports expensive, hypercompetitive, and all-consuming for families. At least investors are making a killing.
The Pay-to-Play Childhood
Private travel leagues have made youth sports expensive, hypercompetitive, and all-consuming for families. At least investors are making a killing.
nymag.com
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 ...
Against the wind: despite Trump’s attacks, unions are fighting for good US clean energy jobs
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 ...
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Feel like this nicely encapsulates my least favorite way of thinking about "politics"
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...
‘If I Leave, Who Is Going to Rescue People?’
In Lebanon, Israel’s bombs have wounded thousands, including my family. I visited the paramedics risking their lives to save them.
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