1. politics
    Obama Finalizes Sweeping Climate-Change Plan The new rules call for even higher cuts to greenhouse gas emissions and are designed to push and reward the adoption of renewable energy sources.
    By Chas Danner
  2. ink-stained wretches
    Why the Clinton Campaign Is Feuding With the New York TimesThey blasted the paper for “egregious” errors in a report about a criminal inquiry into Clinton’s emails.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  3. cable news news
    MSNBC Preps for Brian Williams’s Return by Canceling 3 Daytime ShowsSay good-bye to The Cycle, Now with Alex Wagner, and The Ed Show.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  4. media
    Gawker Announces New Leadership Following a chaotic couple of weeks.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  5. encounter
    Henry Blodget Is in the Middle of Another Tech Boom, With a New Product to SellBusiness Insider spinoff Tech Insider will focus on a niche while also trying to appeal to a larger audience with posts about “where tech meets life.”
    By Jessica Pressler
  7. profile
    How Obama’s Confidant Became His Greatest Adversary on Climate ChangeLaurence Tribe is fighting the White House on behalf of Big Coal. His friends are furious at him, which breaks his heart.
    By Andrew Rice
  8. media
    Hold On — Is Gawker Media About to Reboot and Rename Itself? [Updated]Way to bury the lede.
    By Margaret Hartmann and Jaime Fuller
  9. media
    Japanese Media Group Nikkei Buys the Financial Times for $1.29 BillionGlobal education company Pearson is selling the newspaper after nearly 60 years. 
    By Jaime Fuller
  10. urban planning
    Is NYC Doing Enough to Prepare for Rising Seas?What our urban future might look like, whether or not the climate predictions prove true.
    By Justin Davidson
  11. On Trump, Murdoch Has Lost Control of Ailes, FoxHas Fox News spun out of the media mogul’s control?
    By Gabriel Sherman
  12. media
    Nick Denton Says He Wants ‘a Gentler Gawker’Plus, tweets from the latest contentious staff meeting.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  13. climate change
    Even the Pope Can’t Make de Blasio Run on TimeIn the mayor’s defense, however, he can’t control the weather — although the mayors assembled in Rome would like to.
    By Jaime Fuller
  14. media
    Gawker’s Nick Denton Says This Is ‘Not the Company I Built’; Staffers DisagreeOne called his account “historically dubious.”
    By Margaret Hartmann
  15. media
    Gawker’s Existential CrisisIs the notoriously snarky media growing up, or falling apart?
    By Gabriel Sherman
  16. Top Gawker Editors Resign After Deletion of Controversial Post Gawker Media executive editor Tommy Craggs and Gawker.com editor-in-chief Max Read announced their resignations on Monday morning. 
    By Caroline Bankoff
  17. Ira Glass Is Establishing His Radio-Podcast EmpireHe now owns “This American Life” and “Serial.”
    By Jen Kirby
  18. media
    Keith Olbermann and ESPN Break Up, Once AgainThe network reportedly wanted him to stop it with the commentaries.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  19. media
    Jason Whitlock and the Messy Saga of ESPN’s ‘Black Grantland’He has been fired from the website he was supposed to create. The fallout is revealing cracks in ESPN’s empire.
    By Reeves Wiedeman
  20. encounter
    At the Batting Cage With the Woman Bringing a Sneaky Feminism to Fox SportsKatie Nolan, the mouthy, funny Garbage Time host, takes a few whacks at Chelsea Piers softballs and meathead fans.
    By Jessica Roy
  21. profile
    Jean Nouvel Is a Master Without a StyleTalking to the architecte terrible who can’t stand one of his new buildings.
    By Justin Davidson
  22. profile
    Jean Nouvel Is a Master Without a StyleTalking to the architecte terrible who can’t stand one of his new buildings.
    By Justin Davidson
  23. oops
    CNN Mistakes Dildos for ISISA parody ISIS flag at the London Pride parade got the network really hot and bothered.
    By Chas Danner
  24. media
    Lester Holt Is Still Friends With Brian WilliamsThe new NBC Nightly News anchor broke his silence about the scandal.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  25. great moments in fox news
    Fox & Friends Host Throws an Ax at a SoldierThat looks painful.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  26. life on earth
    The Sixth Mass Extinction May Actually Be HereA group of scientists have concluded a historic die-off is indeed under way, and humans will be among the threatened species.
    By Chas Danner
  27. So Far, 2015 Is the Hottest Year on RecordNot the good kind of hot, the bad climate-change kind.
    By Chas Danner
  28. religion
    How Pope Francis Is Reclaiming the Meaning of ‘Pro-Life’The pontiff’s climate encyclical invoked the religious — and even radical — origins of a term that had become distorted by politics
    By Lisa Miller
  29. media
    Why the Charleston Shooter Should Be Called a TerroristJon Stewart and many others argue that avoiding the term minimizes the attack on African-Americans.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  30. media
    Brian Williams Is Doing a Full Apology TourHe’s reportedly met with his colleagues in New York and D.C.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  31. media
    Brian Williams Is Out As Nightly News Anchor, But He’ll Stay at NBC Sub Lester Holt will take over permanently.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  32. timelines
    A Brief History of New Jersey’s Deadly Action ParkAs the amusement park prepares to bring back its notorious Cannonball Loop.
    By Nick Tabor
  33. media
    Roger Ailes’s Demotion Signals Power Shift Within Murdoch EmpireRupert Murdoch issues a stinging rebuke.
    By Gabriel Sherman
  34. the national interest
    Peggy Noonan Warns Pope About Hastily Endorsing Climate ScienceShe is a stickler for methodological rigor.
    By Jonathan Chait
  35. media
    Will James Murdoch Ever Control Roger Ailes?The younger Murdoch cares about climate change, but he also cares about the $1 billion Fox News nets annually.
    By Gabriel Sherman
  36. Slow Down, Everyone: James Murdoch Is Not Taking Over“Consider this the ascension of both sons, and not James.”  
    By Gabriel Sherman
  37. media
    Report: Rupert Murdoch to Step Down As 21st Century Fox CEOCNBC reports he’ll be replaced by his son, James.
    By Jessica Roy
  38. media
    Lester Holt Is Probably Replacing Brian Williams for GoodSources say it’s still unclear if BriWi will remain at NBC.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  39. the national interest
    Scientists Drop Science Bomb on Climate-Change SkepticsNow there’s no way conservatives can deny global warming, right?
    By Jonathan Chait
  40. design hunting
    Inside Governors Island’s New Oyster PavilionTurns out that slurping the bivalves is good for New York Harbor.
    By Wendy Goodman
  41. media
    The Bloggers Are UnionizingGawker becomes the first digital-only newsroom to unionize.
    By Jaime Fuller
  42. climate change
    Climate-Change-Deal Negotiators Are Terrified of Congress“We know the politics in the U.S.”
    By Jaime Fuller
  43. donald trump
    Reporter Resigned to Sharing Donald Trump’s Views on TradeThe potential presidential candidate offers unsolicited views on the free-trade debate in Congress.
    By Jaime Fuller
  44. debacles
    NBC Reportedly Looking for Something Else for Brian Williams to Do Rather than simply go back to anchoring Nightly News.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  45. media
    Bruce Jenner to Make Post-Transition Appearance in Vanity FairAnnie Leibovitz is reportedly set to shoot the story.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  46. the national interest
    Obama’s Clean Power Plan Is Modest, But It Can Save the WorldWhy does the coal industry hate a plan that does so little to hurt it?
    By Jonathan Chait
  47. much conservatism
    Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum Are Auditioning for the Same Part in 2016Which one will win the race to be 2016’s unapologetic social conservative?
    By Jaime Fuller
  48. culture
    In Defense of the 1970sThey’re still getting a bad rap, pace the Mad Men finale and Louis C.K.’s recent Saturday Night Live monologue. Here’s why that’s not fair.
    By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
  49. roasts
    Christie Prepares Expletive-Filled Audition for Next Comedy Central RoastThe New Jersey governor’s roast of the media didn’t stay off the record very long. 
    By Jaime Fuller
  50. white house
    Obama on Climate Change: ‘We Need to Act Now’“Make no mistake: It will impact how our military defends our country.”
    By Jaime Fuller
  51. Botanist Discovers First Autumn Man (Who Might Just Be Shakespeare)(But perhaps isn’t.)
    By Jaime Fuller
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