The Air Mail Archive: Every weekly issue

Issue No. 50

June 27, 2020

Cold Warrior

Ravi Somaiya reveals how white nationalists may have assassinated a beloved U.N. secretary-general

Monster Mash

Phoebe Eaton asks just what motivated Georgina Chapman to marry Harvey Weinstein

The Upper Hand

Hannah Seligson looks at why New York’s wealthiest are now at the mercy of their staff

Issue No. 49

June 20, 2020

Cain and Enabled

In Part II of her Harvey Weinstein investigation, Phoebe Eaton asks what role his brother played in his rise—and demise

Monuments Men

Douglas McGrath argues for a reset in how we name our military installations and remember racist generals

William and Kate

Vassi Chamberlain reveals why the British press are wrong about the Duchess of Cambridge’s family

Issue No. 48

June 13, 2020

criminal minds

We know what Harvey Weinstein did. But Phoebe Eaton says the real question is why he committed those horrible acts

Tall in the Saddle

Katie Nodjimbadem rides with black cowboys honoring George Floyd

Thought Leader

William D. Cohan talks to Scott Galloway, the new king of all media

Issue No. 47

June 6, 2020

That was the week that was

Graydon Carter asks if a single image can sum up this moment in the American saga

Bearing witness

Artists across the U.S. react to George Floyd’s killing

Ice Capades

The cunning $4.5 million London jewel heist that channeled Ocean’s 11

Issue No. 46

May 30, 2020

Vlad to Worse

As the coronavirus ravages Russia, Putin the germophobe cowers in his palace

Royal Deadbeat

For a broke Prince Andrew, Jeffrey Epstein was the lender of last resort

A New Way Forward?

The AIR MAIL/Shreeji newsstand in London is a breath of fresh air

Issue No. 45

May 23, 2020

Working Stiff

How “work from home” snuffs out sex between co-workers

From FOMO to FOGO

Polly Vernon says the end of lockdown brings the return of one of the most dreaded parts of modern life

Class Wars

When elite schools run up against parents who don’t want to pay $50,000 for Zoom Academy

Issue No. 44

May 16, 2020

Dancing On Others’ Graves

Screw lockdown. New York club kids move the parties underground

No Friend of Bill’s

The Hillary book everyone is talking about

Hollywood Cliff-hanger

Are the walls starting to talk at the Chateau Marmont?

Issue No. 43

May 9, 2020

The Coronavirus Chronicles

One hundred days that shook the world (but not Trump)

True Crime

How were sexual predators allowed to work at an elite summer camp for boys?

Royal Spongers

Harry and Meghan mooch in L.A.; Andy and Fergie going downhill in Verbier

Issue No. 42

May 2, 2020

Social-Media Distancing

Cazzie David on the fresh hell of Instagram during lockdown

Ladies First

Alessandra Stanley has a suggestion for Joe Biden. It involves a tiara

Sussexession: The Dramedy

In this week’s episode, Meghan tortures her father in court

Issue No. 41

April 25, 2020

Upper-Class Warfare

William D. Cohan reports from the front lines as scandal rocks one of New York’s most elite schools

Sussexession, Season One

A hundred days of Megxit scandals, snubs, and screwups

Billionaires Behaving Badly

What happens when a tax exile hits up the government for a coronavirus bailout?

Issue No. 40

April 18, 2020

High Crimes

What’s fueling Trump’s increasingly erratic press conferences?

Supreme Meddling

The biggest threat to America’s democracy is not the pandemic, according to Roger Parloff

Bugging Out

Maybe the author of Contagion knows something about our current virus that we don’t

Issue No. 39

April 11, 2020

Code Breakers

Walter Isaacson takes us inside Silicon Valley’s race to create a virus test and vaccine

Sexual Healing?

A swelling of sales in coronavirus erotica for the housebound

Who’s Zoomin’ Who?

George Kalogerakis on how the non-Zoom “Zoombombed” the real Zoom

Issue No. 38

April 4, 2020

Kvetcher in the Rye

Sam Wasson read Woody Allen’s memoir so you don’t have to

Dithering Heights

Trump and the six-week delay that has already cost the lives of thousands

Yeast Inflection

Why is everyone suddenly baking bread? Ashley Baker dusts off the flour

Issue No. 37

March 28, 2020

SWANKY PANKY

Stuart Heritage explains why Davos, Alpine clubhouse of the rich and powerful, is sexual-harassment central

NATURE CALLS

His new documentary is alarming, but David Attenborough still holds out some hope for planet Earth

BRIDESHEAD RESUMED

School (with a Predilection) for Scandal: Joseph Bullmore studies the trouble at Oxford these days

Issue No. 36

March 21, 2020

PANDEMICS

350 years before the coronavirus, take a Pepys at a real plague diary. Max Hastings did

SMALL CONSOLATIONS

Boris Johnson’s handling of the pandemic is only the second worst we’re seeing, notes Stuart Heritage. The first is closer to home

MÉNAGE À TROP

Try lockdown life with your recent ex! Alexandra Marshall reports from her living-room front line

Issue No. 35

March 14, 2020

MURDER MYSTERY, PART VI

Rich Cohen unravels the tragic Jennifer Dulos saga—and bumps into two #MeToo figures

PANDEMICS IN THE NEWS

It’s always been a germophobe’s world, Cazzie David points out, and now we’re all finally living in it

DYNASTIC DYSFUNCTION I

Separated at birth—and by lawyers: billionaire twins go to war, and Joseph Bullmore reports

Issue No. 34

March 7, 2020

MURDER MYSTERY, PART V

Rich Cohen reports on how prime suspect Fotis Dulos focused, unconvincingly, on an alibi

THE LONG GOOD-BYE

Yet more jockeying in the Megxit drama. Stuart Heritage rummages through the wreckage

ADD TO CART

Tatiana Schlossberg wonders how Jeff Bezos squares his $10 billion climate pledge with, well, Amazon

Issue No. 33

February 29, 2020

MURDER MYSTERY, PART IV

The day Jennifer Dulos disappeared, her husband got busy getting rid of the bloody evidence. Rich Cohen reports

DISNEY SUPERHERO

He’s responsible for Star Wars, Pixar, Marvel, and more. Peter Stevenson on the man behind the magic

DEVIL’S PLAYGROUND

Stuart Heritage explores the dark side of the television phenomenon Love Island

Issue No. 32

February 22, 2020

MURDER MYSTERY, PART III

It was the divorce from hell, writes Rich Cohen about the Dulos case. Then things went downhill fast

ON THE LAM

A young art dealer is missing, leaving behind a trail of angry collectors in London and New York. Joseph Bullmore investigates

ANOTHER ROYAL MESS, AND ANOTHER

More divorces. The Sussexes de-branded. Andrew, pedophile-phile. Stuart Heritage gathers the unappetizing threads

Issue No. 31

February 15, 2020

MURDER MYSTERY PART II

Rich Cohen reports on trouble in a WASP paradise: one Dulos starts an affair; the other fears for her life

CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS

Roger Parloff on a threat to the First Amendment. A new ruling could send whistleblowers and reporters to jail

APPSTINENCE

Cazzie David abandons her smartphone. For a week. And lives to tell

Issue No. 30

February 8, 2020

Murder in Fairfield County

Eight months after Jennifer Farber disappeared, her husband, Fotis Dulos, was charged with the murder. Soon Dulos, too, was dead. Rich Cohen tells the harrowing tale

The Makings of a Royal Mess

Did Meghan start a palace rebellion? Or was Harry already plotting his escape? Vassi Chamberlain uncovers what lured Harry to Hollywood

Naked Ambition

Emily Ratajkowski calls herself a feminist. But Evgenia Peretz wonders, does parading around half (and sometimes fully) naked really help her agenda?

Issue No. 29

February 1, 2020

Is Paris Fuming? Oui!

Strikes are overtaking the City of Light. John Von Sothen, our expat in France, reports from streets filled with barricades and bicycles as the protests enter their third month

For-Profit Feminism

In the new women’s movement, workplace equality is a revenue stream. Amy Odell reports on the millennial enterprises with feminist agendas and deep pockets

Meghan’s New B.F.F.

Ashley Baker reports on Misha Nonoo, a socialite and fashion designer who counts herself among the former Duchess of Sussex’s closest friends

Issue No. 28

January 25, 2020

An Open Letter to Harry and Meghan

Dysfunction is practically a royal tradition, but there might be a remedy. Max Hastings offers the couple a bit of advice (even if he knows it will go unheeded)

On the Spectrum

Preet Bharara reviews Unmaking the Presidency: Donald Trump’s War on the World’s Most Powerful Office, by Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes

Epstein’s Island of Horrors

Jacqui Goddard reports on Little St. James, Jeffrey Epstein’s shady hideaway in the U.S. Virgin Islands

Issue No. 27

January 18, 2020

The Trouble with Harry

Alexandra Shulman reports that Prince Harry’s restlessness is long-simmering, and even predates his Canadian escape with Meghan

Bad Romance

Paul Strathern, the author of a new book on the Borgias, separates fact from fiction when it comes to the notorious Italian family

Goopelgänger

If Goop is Oprah 2.0—a lifestyle media juggernaut spun off of an aspirational celebrity guru—then Elise Loehnen is the new Gayle King. Alexandra Marshall profiles Gwyneth’s right hand

Issue No. 26

January 11, 2020

Throne Out

Are Harry and Meghan going the way of the Windsors or the Kardashians? Marina Hyde talks all things Megxit—and tries to predict the couple’s next move

Why WeWork WeTanked

Matthew Zeitlin reports on how Adam Neumann’s cultish company lost its $20 billion valuation in a matter of weeks

The Jeffrey Epstein of Paris

Alexandra Marshall investigates why the Café de Flore set protected a pedophile who was abusing their children

Issue No. 25

January 4, 2020

Shades of Blue: Part II

Mark Bowden concludes the story of a Tennessee murder investigation that began when a P.I. got a call from a woman who saw him on TV. The job: finding her son’s killer

Lannister’s Greatest Battle Yet

Julia Llewellyn Smith reports on Nikolaj Coster-Waldau’s transition from on-screen, Game of Thrones warrior to real-life climate warrior

Marie Kondo’s Bookshelf

What’s in Marie Kondo’s predictably selective library? The author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up reveals the books she thinks are worth keeping around

Issue No. 24

December 28, 2019

The Runaway Groom

Stuart Heritage tells how Britain’s most-wanted con man bewitched, bamboozled, and embezzled

Prince Among Men

Randee St. Nicholas, the photographer behind the largest-ever collection of images of the star, recalls the extraordinary experience of being in his orbit

Shades of Blue: Part I