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Does Anderson Cooper Have Money Issues?

The CNN anchor drops by to discuss his complicated relationship with his Vanderbilt family—and their cash

Once upon a Time in Wrexham

Actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney buy a Welsh football club because … why not?

Opera Pick of the Week

As the Metropolitan Opera returns to live performance, an easy fix for fans hooked on the company’s once-complimentary nightly streams

The Big Sleep

A River Runs Through It

Great Minds …

Both Albert Einstein and Marie Curie visited America during the Roaring 20s. It left a lasting impression

Art Basel is Back!

The 50th edition of the famed art fair features work by artists as varied as Camille Pissarro and Kara Walker

All in the Family

Rumbled in the Jungle

The 1974 championship bout between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali, in Zaire, forever changed the lives of both fighters—and the writers who covered it

David Downton’s Sketchbook

Still Here

Unexplained Phenomena

The Anderson Tapes

The CNN anchor Anderson Cooper takes a candid look at the Vanderbilts, the historic American dynasty from which his mother, Gloria, hailed

Fish Out of Water

The Man Behind Roger Ailes and Winston Churchill

John Lithgow joins the show

Monster Mash

Capers Corner

A soundtrack for the mischievous, from Joe Jackson, Jimmy Cliff, Rosanne Cash, Rodney Crowell, and more

The Met Ball Hall of … Fame?

If you thought this year’s event looked like a cross between Halloween and the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards, you aren’t alone. They don’t call it the “Costume” Institute for nothing

Hurts So Good

Once he made it to the top, the rough-around-the-edges, all-American rock star John Mellencamp found out he was really on the bottom

A Pre–Mean Girls Burn Book

The second in an unredacted three-part release of socialite Chips Channon’s diaries is as snobbish, spiteful, and addictive as the first

North Korea as You’ve Never Seen It

Stéphan Gladieu’s otherworldly photos take viewers where they’ve never been allowed to go—inside Pyongyang

Taking a Vaxxation

Here’s why so many Americans are unwilling to get a shot

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Opera Pick of the Week

More Verdi from Muti’s La Scala: the Spanish tragedy Il Trovatore