Max Abelson

NEW: Epstein’s relationship with the billionaire Leon Black was unlike any other. Here’s our story about an angry mistress, another woman, the IRS, the KGB, threats, demands, high art, family and Michael Clayton. Please read and share this gift link bloomberg.com/news/features/…

@BoylanRoger @leonardbenardo1

Jorge Luis Borges with a pie dish on his head.

Phia — the buzzy shopping app co-founded by Bill Gates' daughter, Phoebe — is claiming credit for online sales it didn’t actually drive, a Bloomberg investigation found. Read our exclusive story: bloom.bg/4wErGxe 📷️: Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images

Source here. Still a fun read all these years later bloomberg.com/features/2016-…

Fans of football and corruption: Ten years ago, I wrote a guide to the gangsters, gamblers, celebrities and billionaires that have lived in Trump Tower. (Shoutout to cowriters @JesseDrucker and @zachmider). Check out this paragraph

@zackrosebrugh @nybooks Lovely

Colored pencil drawing I did a couple years ago is the cover of the current issue of the NYRB 🙂

One year ago, we started Olive of Gaza, an initiative to provide aid to Palestinians living through bombings Now, we continue to fundraise to ensure that families who survived have access to food, shelter & more. You can donate or DM to get involved: chuffed.org/project/olive-…

So far my favorite things in Normandy are Proust’s hotel room, the oysters and brand new Chlorophyll Gout Tic Tacs

Mitchell Robinson's eight years with the Knicks should go down as a tremendous success story. Second-round pick from humble beginnings who didn't just stick in the league — he became an all-time rebounder, top-notch defender, well-liked teammate and key cog on a title team.

Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, the daughter-in-law of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., helped her father secure at least $12M from a Russian investment bank that cooperated with the Kremlin while she was working as an American spy. bit.ly/4utPimF

@andy_garin Congrats Professor!!!

Tenured and grateful. Grateful to be at a special place like Heinz with wonderful colleagues, for my advisors and mentors, for all the collaborators, students, and research assistants I’ve worked with and learned from, and to my family for being on this ride with me.

I love NYC public swimming pools

@GusChristensen Any major dude with half a heart surely would tell you!

Twenty years ago, right on the nose, I got my first full-time job in journalism. It’s been more fun than I could’ve hoped, and now our newsroom has kindly made me a senior reporter, which makes me and my wife and parents very happy. May the best be yet to come

@JordanOnBrand 🫡

@maxabelson Congratulations, Max!!

@GreyGersten Much love Grey!

@maxabelson 🫡🫡🫡congratulations!!

@MikeTopp You’re fired

Applied for job as internet sleuth.

@BrennanCenter Go Jesse go

James Wilson was one of the most important framers of the Constitution — but died hiding from creditors and faded from history. Jesse Wegman’s new book, The Lost Founder, reexamines Wilson’s legacy. Read an excerpt in The Atlantic: bit.ly/4vpz5QG

“We the people” was his phrase, but he got written out of history! He was also the only Supreme Court justice ever to be jailed…

Alex Ross, a name I know from his lovely music criticism, wrote a big and vivid chronicle of Habermas, whose name and work I hardly knew at all. I found it thrilling -- alive with ideas and a kind of warmth often missing when smart people explain genius newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…

New York City’s Rent Guidelines Board voted to freeze rents for roughly one million stabilized apartments, handing Mayor Zohran Mamdani a major political victory and delivering on a central promise that launched him to City Hall bloomberg.com/news/articles/…