Andrew Cuomo spent $1 billion to build a factory for Elon Musk — a would be solar panel factory that was supposed to save Buffalo. What the state got in return: “the biggest economic development boondoggle in American history.” From Julie Bykowicz and me. wsj.com/articles/elon-…

“I think we’re coming to a fork in the road,” Mike Pence told me last weekend. The fork has arrived. nytimes.com/2023/08/04/us/…

EXCLUSIVE: The secret hand behind Andrew Cuomo’s online army? His sister, it turns out. For 18 months, Madeline Cuomo back channeled with grass-roots groups to help smear Andrew's accusers and rehab his image. He was “seeing everything,” she said. 1/x nytimes.com/2023/08/07/nyr…

“Rudy loves opera,” Bill Bratton said. “Few operas end in a happy place.” Maggie Haberman and me on a long-fraught subject for Giuliani allies -- his drinking -- and the attention it's earned from prosecutors in Trump's election case. nytimes.com/2023/10/04/us/…

"In a life of myriad miseries, the girl resigned herself to more." A remarkable and harrowing investigation into juvenile lockup from Seven Days: sevendaysvt.com/vermont/woodsi…

“Maybe I’ve just been called a right-wing crazy for so long that I thought I was,” Tucker Carlson told me. “But if I agree with pretty much everything Russell Brand says, I don’t know what I am.” For NYT Magazine this week: “Russell Brand's Alternate Reality.” nytimes.com/2023/11/13/mag…

I wrote about a, uh, treasured family tradition for New York Times Travel. nytimes.com/2024/01/05/tra…

Drilling 3s, working refs, signing bald heads: Caitlin Clark is the biggest star in college basketball. What comes next? nytimes.com/2024/02/06/us/…

Excited to announce "I Don't Want to Go Home," my oral history of The Stone Pony, is available for pre-order! With 100s of interviews, from @Springsteen, @stevieVanZandt and Southside Johnny to The Gaslight Anthem, the Jonas Brothers & more. Out in early June! harpercollins.com/products/i-don…

.danawhite is the PT Barnum of people choking each other into submission, if PT Barnum also hawked a line of canned whiskey & cola & bet $100k/blackjack hand. Matt Flegenheimer & Joe Bernstein on the cultural, political & business influence of the UFC president. nytimes.com/2024/04/14/bus…

"He was born," Mike Tyson told us, "in the perfect time." NYT dive (w/ the great Joe Bernstein) on Dana White, his value to Trump (and vice versa) and his high perch in the cage-match politics era: nytimes.com/2024/04/14/bus…

“I never count money,” Don King told me. “If you can count your money, you ain’t got none.” The decades-long, highly explicable, “only-in-America(n)” friendship of two men who never especially changed: nytimes.com/2024/06/18/us/…

Stephen A. Smith would like to be Joe Rogan and things of that nature. nytimes.com/2025/05/15/sty…

“I don’t think I’m qualified to talk about politics,” Dr. Phil told me. And so, he insisted, he really hadn’t. nytimes.com/2025/08/10/sty…

The Wary, Warming, Wildly Consequential Alliance of Ocasio-Cortez and Mamdani Always give Matt Flegenheimer a read >> nytimes.com/2025/09/22/nyr…

"I’m going to do me," Eric Adams said. He kept that promise. nytimes.com/2025/09/28/nyr…

that and many other details about the mayoral candidate's life as a teenager in this carefully observed piece by Matt Flegenheimer and Ben Oreskes nytimes.com/2025/10/20/nyr…

Over the moon to that my Oz the Mentalist profile is today's "Great Read" in The New York Times! Gift link: nytimes.com/2025/10/23/sty…

“Andrew M. Cuomo, tieless but never casual…” With Cuomo on the ropes, read Matt Flegenheimer on the scion who has never really changed and who is making a big bet that the New York he ruled for so long has not either nytimes.com/2025/10/30/nyr…

"My father dropped dead. His headline lives on." The great Bill Brink on the keys! nytimes.com/2025/10/30/nyr…