As Higgins makes clear, the challenge isn’t just a few billionaires, but a world unmoored from the institutions that once ...

Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker, more or less disappeared from the internet in 2017, after a public legal battle with Hulk Hogan (backed by Peter Thiel) resulted in the site being shut down.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin lost her defamation case against The Times on Tuesday for the third time, a high-stakes suit ...

A Manhattan jury heard closing arguments Tuesday in former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s defamation case do-over against The Times, a high-stakes suit that First Amendment advocates worry could lead to ...

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s high-stakes defamation lawsuit against The Times is about “more than words on a page” — it’s ...

Elizabeth Spiers is Slate’s Pay Dirt columnist. She was the founding editor of Gawker and the former editor in chief of the New York Observer. Prior to Gawker, she was a financial analyst.

After decades of media moguls acting as political kingmakers, we finally have an election where the Murdoch family just won't ...

Elizabeth Spiers is Slate’s Pay Dirt columnist. She was the founding editor of Gawker and the former editor in chief of the New York Observer. Prior to Gawker, she was a financial analyst.

The onetime “maverick” vice presidential candidate returned to Manhattan federal court to retry her libel claims, which have ...

Chicago microbiologist Nicholas Aicher tested how the so-called “five-second rule” compared to longer and shorter-timed drops ...

Sarah Palin's lawyer faulted the New York Times on Tuesday for failing to apologize to the former Republican U.S. vice ...