@mattfleg

Reporter, @nytimes

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Joined November 2010
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Some News: I’m writing a book about the best city’s greatest night.
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"The swamp will not defeat him," Anthony Scaramucci once said, third-personally. "Your ego is always talking to you," he now says, second-personally. How the Mooch found favo(u)r, 11 days and 9 years later, as a Trump-explaining UK podcast guy. nytimes.com/2026/08/09/style…

Anthony Scaramucci’s Special Relationship

He spent 11 days in the Trump White House nine years ago. Now he has a hit podcast, helping the British public, among others, understand what’s going on.

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The (Very) Manhattan Moms Whose Sons Are Running for Congress @mattfleg nytimes.com/2026/06/19/nyreg…

The (Very) Manhattan Moms Whose Sons Are Running for Congress

In a high-profile Democratic House primary, there’s a fair chance that would-be voters may have been sweet-talked by the proud mothers of leading candidates.

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So this is how it feels. nytimes.com/2026/06/14/nyreg…
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A SENSE OF WHERE FLEG IS (watching game one with dollar bill) nytimes.com/2026/06/04/nyreg… via @mattfleg

Resilience, Courage, ‘Blah Blah Blah’: A Legend Cheers His Knicks

Watching Game 1 of the Knicks-Spurs series, Bill Bradley, the two-time N.B.A. champion and former U.S. senator, spoke reverently of teamwork — and had a few choice words for the refs.

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I watched with Bill Bradley last night. He's ready, too. nytimes.com/2026/06/04/nyreg…

Resilience, Courage, ‘Blah Blah Blah’: A Legend Cheers His Knicks

Watching Game 1 of the Knicks-Spurs series, Bill Bradley, the two-time N.B.A. champion and former U.S. senator, spoke reverently of teamwork — and had a few choice words for the refs.

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Bradley said he'd never watched a full Wemby game before, only highlights. He was fascinated. “WHAT?” he shouted, almost cackling, after an early 3. “His feet.” he said quietly later. “Watch his feet.” “Look at that step!” he marveled. “Oh my god, that’s an eight-foot step.”
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Strange things are happening. nytimes.com/2026/05/29/nyreg…

New Yorkers Are Living in a Peculiar Harmony. Thank the Knicks.

The team’s playoff run has brought a curious sense of amity to the city.

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“If I’m the story of the World Cup,” Andrew Giuliani said, “then the World Cup has not gone well.” The story of Andrew Giuliani: nytimes.com/2026/05/19/us/po…

How Trump Entrusted His World Cup to Another Giuliani

Andrew Giuliani, the son of Rudy and a longtime Trump loyalist, is overseeing American hosting duties for the World Cup next month. It’s a big promotion.

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"My father dropped dead. His headline lives on." The great Bill Brink on the keys! nytimes.com/2025/10/30/nyreg…

50 Years Ago, My Father Wrote the Headline That Refuses to Die

It’s rare that a headline outlasts the person who wrote it. But long after my father’s death, “Ford to City: Drop Dead” still reverberates.

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“Andrew M. Cuomo, tieless but never casual…” With Cuomo on the ropes, read @mattfleg on the scion who has never really changed and who is making a big bet that the New York he ruled for so long has not either nytimes.com/2025/10/30/nyreg…

Andrew Cuomo, Scraping and Scrambling, Is Still Running as Andrew Cuomo

The former governor, a distant second in most polls of the New York City mayor’s race, is working harder to attract voters and remind them who he is.

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John Hendrickson@JohnGHendy23 Oct 2025
Over the moon to that my Oz the Mentalist profile is today's "Great Read" in @nytimes! Gift link: nytimes.com/2025/10/23/style…
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that and many other details about the mayoral candidate's life as a teenager in this carefully observed piece by @mattfleg and @boreskes nytimes.com/2025/10/20/nyreg…

How an Elite Public High School Set Mamdani on the Path to Politics (Published 2025)

Zohran Mamdani’s time at the Bronx High School of Science expanded and helped shape his views of New York, from the cricket pitch to politics.

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"I’m going to do me," Eric Adams said. He kept that promise. nytimes.com/2025/09/28/nyreg…

Swaggering, Scandalous, Strange: There Will Never Be Another Eric Adams (Published 2025)

The quotable, luxury-loving, perpetually mysterious mayor took New Yorkers on a wild and unpredictable ride.

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The Wary, Warming, Wildly Consequential Alliance of Ocasio-Cortez and Mamdani Always give @mattfleg a read >> nytimes.com/2025/09/22/nyreg…

The Wary, Warming, Wildly Consequential Alliance of Ocasio-Cortez and Mamdani (Gift Article)

She was the ‘big sister’ he hoped to impress. He seemed inexperienced to her. Now, they’re the faces of a political movement — and New York is its test case.

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“I don’t think I’m qualified to talk about politics,” Dr. Phil told me. And so, he insisted, he really hadn’t. nytimes.com/2025/08/10/style…

Dr. Phil’s Road From Oprah to ICE Raids (Published 2025)

The daytime TV fixture seems to have taken a rightward turn. But don’t call it politics.

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Stephen A. Smith would like to be Joe Rogan and things of that nature. nytimes.com/2025/05/15/style…

Stephen A. Smith Is Running. To Be Joe Rogan. (Published 2025)

America’s best-known sports-talker is hosting boldface Democrats and MAGA luminaries and teasing a 2028 run. But what he really wants is ubiquitous political influence, and things of that nature.

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“I never count money,” Don King told me. “If you can count your money, you ain’t got none.” The decades-long, highly explicable, “only-in-America(n)” friendship of two men who never especially changed: nytimes.com/2024/06/18/us/po…

What Donald Trump Learned From Don King (Published 2024)

The decades-long friendship of two men who never especially changed.

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"He was born," Mike Tyson told us, "in the perfect time." NYT dive (w/ the great @Bernstein) on Dana White, his value to Trump (and vice versa) and his high perch in the cage-match politics era: nytimes.com/2024/04/14/busin…

Dana White, Donald Trump and the Rise of Cage-Match Politics (Published 2024)

White, chief executive of the bloody and beloved Ultimate Fighting Championship, has shot to the peak of Trump-era culture and political influence. What does he want?

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.@danawhite is the PT Barnum of people choking each other into submission, if PT Barnum also hawked a line of canned whiskey & cola & bet $100k/blackjack hand. @mattfleg & @Bernstein on the cultural, political & business influence of the @ufc president. nytimes.com/2024/04/14/busin…

Dana White, Donald Trump and the Rise of Cage-Match Politics (Published 2024)

White, chief executive of the bloody and beloved Ultimate Fighting Championship, has shot to the peak of Trump-era culture and political influence. What does he want?

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