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Michelle Goldberg

Reporter · NZ

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Sep 13, 2026
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Jul 10, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 13, 2026 · Michelle Goldberg

    Why tech oligarchs are willing to risk AI apocalypse (opens the original)

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    Peter Thiel in Manhattan on January 7, 2016. The billionaire’s Promethean theology might sound bizarre to outsiders, but it appears to be widely shared among the tech elite. Photo / Andrew White, The New York Times Peter Thiel says Greta Thunberg represents the spirit of the Antichrist. It’s more than just a hyperbolic slur, writes Michelle Goldberg. In a series of private speeches last year, Peter Thiel, the billionaire tech investor and Silicon Valley thought leader, said the young activist Gr

  2. Article · Aug 28, 2026 · By Michelle Goldberg

    Why do we keep imagining a new Civil War? (opens the original)

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    Psychologist John Gottman said nothing is so destructive to a marriage as contempt. Couples can come back from many sorts of conflicts, but not festering disgust — a sense, by one or both people, that the other is beneath them. That’s why, if blue and red America were spouses, the relationship would look hopeless. Call it irreconcilable differences. For at least the past decade, a florid, aggressive contempt has been a constant in our politics. President Donald Trump, after all, doesn’t just sho

  3. Article · Aug 24, 2026 · By Michelle Goldberg

    The rush to pin a scholar’s awful death on the media (opens the original)

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    Last year, Jack Grove, a reporter for Times Higher Education, a British magazine, was preparing an article about plagiarism allegations against star academic Jason Arday. It would have been a big story because Arday, who in 2023 became Cambridge’s youngest-ever Black professor, was a minor celebrity, thanks in part to his seemingly extraordinary biography. Among other things, Arday said that he’d gotten his Ph.D. despite severe autism that left him nonverbal until he was 11 and unable to read un

  4. Article · Jul 14, 2026 · Michelle Goldberg

    He says he killed a man. Republicans nominated him anyway (opens the original)

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    Colorado Republican gubernatorial candidate Victor Marx speaks to reporters in June 2026. Photo / Getty Images Victor Marx has been arrested at least twice for disorderly conduct and has described terrorising a psychiatrist. On Friday, he was declared the winner of the Republican gubernatorial primary in Colorado. Right-wing preacher turned politician Victor Marx has said that he first killed a man when he was 7. He’s not sure how many deaths he’s been responsible for since. Marx has been arrest

  5. Article · Jul 10, 2026 · By Michelle Goldberg

    Lessons from the Graham Platner disaster (opens the original)

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    Graham Platner's Senate campaign, which started with such excitement and inspired so many people in Maine, became a shameful catastrophe. What’s left — besides finding a Democrat to run in his place, now that he has dropped out — is figuring out what, if anything, can be learned from this debacle. As you probably know by now, Politico published a story Monday about a woman, Jenny Racicot, who says that Platner raped her. According to Racicot, they’d been romantically involved, on and off, for mo

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