"I try to respect my audience in a particular way," Steve Inskeep tells Ben Smith and Max Tani. "I think the audience is extremely smart and extremely well-informed. They're just not informed about every single thing at 5:25 in the morning."

As Mayor Eric Adams is meeting with busy leaders, Zohran Kwame Mamdani has been talking to Partnership for New York City CEO & biz powerhouse Kathryn Wylde. Wylde tells me she’s organizing a big CEO meeting w/ Mamdani next month, to introduce him to that world& give him a chance to pitch his vision.

Anna Wintour is giving up (some) control at Vogue. Opulent magazine days are over. So why do we keep recreating Condé Nast's status-obsessed world? First excerpt of my new book is live now at The New York Times: nytimes.com/2025/06/27/bus…

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Being mayor of New York is so complicated! Zohran Kwame Mamdani will have to weigh in on this one, while trying to keep the commissioner, while ....

LISTEN: Semafor senior Washington editor Elana Schor joins Jane Coaston 🏔️ on Crooked Media's What a Day to discuss the make-or-break week ahead for Congressional Republicans and their "Big Beautiful Bill." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gop…

Abundance is very much still in its elite persuasion stage, but elite persuasion matters!

"This is the most common question that I get asked..." Steve Inskeep is a part of the daily morning routine for many people, so what do his mornings look like?

US halts weapons deliveries to Ukraine including Patriot air defence missiles just as Russia ramps up attacks. This is also Trump going back on his word once again. Last week at NATO he suggested he might give them more Patriot systems. Instead he’s done the opposite.

Fascinating Mixed Signals conversation with Mamdani media consultants on what they saw link.chtbl.com/8lqVodXQ

The secret to the media strategy that shocked New York City’s mayoral primary? “Let Zohran cook.” “We have this extraordinary candidate with a clear vision on the kind of race he wants to run,” Morris Katz tells Max Tani. “But we gotta trust our guy.”

katz says "zohran is our best strategist," which is 1. i'm sure true and 2. very similar to how obama's staffers talked about him