By Intellgencer Staff

The Weekend Reader

Required Reading for Political Compulsives

1. The Anti-Mamdani Movement Is Fizzling It now looks like Mamdani’s race to lose. Haters will understand this soon enough.

2. Suddenly, Silicon Valley Is Lowering AI Expectations Sam Altman is talking bubbles now, and Eric Schmidt is over the term “AGI.”

3. The Final Trial of the Menendez Brothers They’re prepared to testify they lied after killing their parents. Will it be enough to free them?

4. Trump’s D.C. Takeover May Be a Prelude to Something Far Worse He may have federalized D.C. law enforcement as a cover for growing deportations, to inflame Democratic divisions, or as a trial run for other cities.

5. Would This Supreme Court Ever Overturn Same-Sex Marriage? A close read of the justices and the case that might trigger a reexamination of Obergefell.

6. The Manifest Destiny of J.D. Vance Vance’s vision of a blood-and-soil America involves taking lots of vacations.

7. Are Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz Friends? Inside the rivalry that has already defined a new generation of tennis.

8. How Meta Became Uniquely Toxic for Top AI Talent Mark Zuckerberg’s nine-figure job offers were just one of multiple bad signs.

9. MS NOW: Everything Wrong With MSNBC’s New Name and Logo Morning Joe hosts claim they love it. Everyone else says it sounds like a multiple-sclerosis charity with MS Paint branding.

10. College Sports Has a Brand-New Villain The Big Ten conference, once rarefied, now represents everything vulgar about the NCAA.

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