Examples of my writing and editing. My articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Fortune, Bloomberg and other outlets. I've worked as an editor at The Free Press, The Week, Bloomberg, and The Village Voice.
The trillion-dollar company's corporate structure seems designed to obfuscate.
Yes, my neighborhood is built on a Superfund site. It's also miles better than the substandard housing New Yorkers have gotten used to.
BY RUPA SUBRAMANYA - EDITED BY MARK GIMEIN - 'I don't want my little girl to die,' Cissy Dekker said about her 19-year-old daughter, Iris. 'But out of love,' Cissy told Rupa Subramanya, 'I also don't want this life for her.'
BY CHARLES FAIN LEHMAN - EDITED BY MARK GIMEIN - The number of murders fell to a 60-year low after city leaders finally decided to start taking violence seriously enough.
BY MAYA SULKIN - EDITED BY MARK GIMEIN - A $400,000 payout on a bet anticipating Maduro's capture puts prediction markets under a spotlight.
BY ADRIAN STRETCH - EDITED - BY MARK GIMEIN - A report from Ukraine on the search for one child shows how hope for Ukraine's kidnapped orphans is fading fast..
BY PATRICK MCGEE - EDITED BY MARK GIMEIN - Taiwanese companies ignited China's economic miracle. Now they can do it for the rest of the world, writes Patrick McGee.
OpenAI wants to rule the world. Anthropic has other ideas. That's why Anthropic made fun of OpenAI in Super Bowl ads, writes Mark Gimein.
BY AMY KELLOGG - EDITED BY MARK GIMEIN - A survivor of Iran's brutal campaign of retribution tells his story.
BY BETHANY MCLEAN - EDITED BY MARK GIMEIN - The Citrini memo, a viral essay, terrified investors who can't decide if AI means human doom or salvation.
For the greatest American capitalists, giving away their money was the thing they hoped to be remembered for.
BY BILLY BINION - EDITED BY MARK GIMEIN - The cultish sexual wellness group was not exactly wholesome. But the founder's prosecution and nine-year sentence distorts the law.
BY DEEPA JAVERI - EDITED BY MARK GIMEIN - Only a handful of top students got perfect scores on the AMC 12. Then AI came along.
BY SANJANA FRIEDMAN - EDITED BY MARK GIMEIN - A city committee called for giving $5M to every black resident affected by discrimination.
Eric Adams' cryptocurrency made no sense. That was the point, writes Mark Gimein-meme coins are supposed to make you feel dumb.
A chatbot that can't say anything controversial isn't worth much. Bring on the uncensored models.
As the U.S. dismantles government institutions, the U.K. demonstrates the opposite danger of trusting bureaucrats far too much.
(EDITORIAL, unbylined) A British law intended to protect kids is suppressing debate for everyone, write our editors. It's even censoring The Free Press.
In Rob Copeland's "The Fund," we learn about the notorious hedge-fund giant Ray Dalio - and the manipulative professional hellscape over which he has presided.
'Death to America' and 'Death to Israel' are just different slogans for the same hatred
Jerry Seinfeld wonders if his show would have made it in our moralistic era
Andy Greenberg's "Tracers in the Dark" chronicles the hunt for crypto-criminals.
Examples of sections I oversaw and edited at The Week, including some of my editor's letters.
BY DARIA LITVINOVA - EDITED BY MARK GIMEIN - As an AIDS epidemic runs out of control and deaths rise above 30,000 a year, Russians look for scapegoats.
Gretna, Lousiana ranks no. 1 in America for arrests per capita. And it's turned its police and courts into a lucrative business.
BY JAMES SOMERS - EDITED BY MARK GIMEIN - I was told that the most interesting man in the world works in the archives division of the New York Public Library, and so I went there, one morning this summer, to meet him.
BY JENNA SAUERS - EDITED BY MARK GIMEIN - The story of Ana Mendieta's first groundbreaking conceptual art piece, and the gruesome events that inspired it.
BY JAMES RIDGEWAY AND KATIE ROSE QUANDT - EDITED BY MARK GIMEIN - Adam Hall was originally sentenced to a year in prison. The he tried to kill himself. With each suicide attempt he got more time - six years for the last attempt. After the story came out, Hall was finally transferred to a psychiatric facility.
BY MICHAEL APPLER - EDITED BY MARK GIMEIN - After the election has come and gone, a small troupe of Bernie Sanders die hards take their act on the road.
Mark Gimein on why the rise of cashless transactions in the U.S. hasn't put an end to the use of paper money.
The most expensive apartment in the twin towered Art Deco masterpiece looking out over Central Park, the San Remo, rented for $900 a month. The tenant was a stockbroker named Meno Henschel who, according to what he told the Census Bureau, lived in his apartment together with his wife, a cook and two maids.
Halfway through the first day of the trial, she sits alone in the courtroom. First the judge left, then the doctor watching from the front row, then the lawyers, until finally it was just her, a hot day outside, white sleeveless top showing off a tattoo and only if you asked would you know it was of the name of her dead son.
Once a counsel to business titans, Tom Peters now lobs exclamation points at middle managers. What happened?
The billionaire philanthropist who made billions anticipating blowups stakes his reputation on an epic fight against George Bush.
