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Issue No. 122
November 13, 2021
F Troop

Nina Burleigh reveals the bizarre truths behind the conspiracy-loving fanatics who tried to kidnap Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer

Plots of the Plutocracy

Is wokeism actually an evil-genius scheme of the super-rich to retain power? Alessandra Stanley examines the evidence

The Paper Chase

Steve Carell, Ricky Gervais, John Krasinski, and other Dunder Mifflin–ers recount the unlikely story of how the U.S. version of The Office came to be

Issue No. 121
November 6, 2021
“Eyes! I have eyes!”

Judith Newman tries to understand Emily Ratajkowski’s misery over the burden of her beauty

The Blood Turns Cold

Rich Cohen has a theory you may not like about the Theranos jurors

From the Pitch

Beautiful game, beautiful boss: Ted Lasso’s Hannah Waddingham savors her moment

Issue No. 120
October 30, 2021
Wise Guys

Mark Seal reveals how Mario Puzo got sweet-talked into writing the script for The Godfather—and found the perfect partner in Francis Ford Coppola

3:10 to Huma

As Todd S. Purdum points out, Hillary’s right hand gets a handle on Weiner, but not on her muse and boss

Skimpy Dipping

Flora Gill exposes herself—and just about everyone else—to Kylie Jenner’s ridiculously revealing new swimsuits

Issue No. 119
October 23, 2021
Family Ties

From New York, Mark Seal recounts how a debt-laden, struggling writer named Mario Puzo turned his gambling addiction into The Godfather

Keep ‘Em Coming

Judith Newman asks if Gwyneth Paltrow’s new sex-advice show is self-help or infomercial?

Failure to Launch

Why Jeff Bezos is losing the billionaires’ space race to his arch-nemesis, Elon Musk

Issue No. 118
October 16, 2021
Creative Split

From New York, Rich Cohen explains how Harry Macklowe’s epically calamitous divorce has billionaire art collectors salivating

The Ever Shrinking Island

In London, John Sweeney confronts the spoils of Boris’s Brexit: empty pantries, gas lines, labor shortages, and a long, cold winter

K-Pop Goes the Weasel!

From Squid Game to Parasite to music stars, Korean culture is conquering the world

Issue No. 117
October 9, 2021
Union Busters

From Wall Street, William D. Cohan looks at the bare-knuckle law firm that specializes in the divorces of Goldman Sachs executives

The Venality of Evil

From New York, Alessandra Stanley considers Dopesick, about the OxyContin-peddling Sackler family, who represent the worst of this Grifted Age

Devil in the Details

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff rips through the pages of Stephanie Grisham’s faux confessional

Issue No. 116
October 2, 2021
The Unreal World

In L.A., Jensen Davis goes inside the Ten Thousand building, a high-rise reserved for the child gods of social media

Holidays in Hell

From New York, Michael Mungiello recounts how a false-positive rapid test scuttled a trip to Greece and landed him on the no-fly list

Othello on the Hudson

John Ficarra imagines how Andrew Cuomo, New York’s former, uh, hands-on governor, now fills his days

Issue No. 115
September 25, 2021
Zuck My Life

Cazzie David considers the countless evils Facebook has unleashed on the hearts and minds of young girls, as well as its secret club that allows V.I.P.’s to spread banned content

Box-Office Poison

Sam Wasson tours Hollywood’s new $250 million Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and finds it just like today’s movies: bloated, woke, and lacking plot

Creative Deferences

In what may have been his last written story before his death, Richard Buckley describes the creative process of his longtime husband, the designer Tom Ford

Issue No. 114
September 18, 2021
Let Them Eat Fake (News)

From Pelosi to Melania, every woman is ridiculed as “a Marie Antoinette.” Yet, as Nancy Goldstone writes, this misunderstood queen was smarter than we know

Bloodbath

In Part III of his coverage of Elizabeth Holmes’s fraud trial, Rich Cohen turns a skeptical eye to her defense strategy

Right, What’s All This, Then?

From the U.K., Stuart Heritage reports that Scotland Yard is wondering why Prince Charles took several large donations from a Russian oligarch once convicted of money-laundering

Issue No. 113
September 11, 2021
Good-Bye To All That

Twenty years after 9/11, former Marine officer Elliot Ackerman wonders what will become of us as a nation

Southern Gothic

George Kalogerakis detangles the bizarre story of the murders and mayhem in South Carolina’s Murdaugh family

The House Bush Built

Clair MacDougall shares the twisted inner workings of Guantánamo Bay, and one man’s decades-long quest for release

Issue No. 112
September 4, 2021
Blood Simple

As accused inventor-grifter Elizabeth Holmes goes on trial, Rich Cohen reminds us how the Theranos founder deceived the best and brightest of Silicon Valley, Washington, and New York

Lake Woe-Be-Never-Gone

In the Hamptons, Anisah Abdullah holds her nose to learn why some of America’s most expensive homes look out on one of its filthiest lakes

Where Everybody Knows Your Name

Mark Rozzo reveals how Dan Tana’s, in Hollywood, became the clubhouse for everyone from John Wayne to George Clooney

Issue No. 111
August 28, 2021
New Frontiers

Diana de Vegh reveals what it was like to be a Radcliffe undergrad having a passionate affair with a man who became an American president

The Social Nitwork

Nimrod Kamer reports on the latest bungling by the Winklevoss twins, who have fallen in with two conniving tech-bro twins

Goop Overboard!

Gwyneth Paltrow sets sail for the latest adventure in her woo-woo empire: a line of wellness-based cruises

Issue No. 110
August 21, 2021
Khyber Pass The Buck?

Alessandra Stanley finds that the U.S. pullout from Afghanistan and the finale of The White Lotus have a lot in common

The Social Network

More than one billion people in 150 countries use TikTok every day, making it the world’s most downloaded social-media app. So what does it want?

Wheels of the Fortunate

Jamie Kitman gets behind the wheel of the new generation of the Chevrolet Corvette, the C8

Issue No. 109
August 14, 2021
Judge and Jury

Alessandra Stanley looks at Justice Breyer’s refusal to retire and sees a reflection of our own self-centered, shortsighted behavior

One Shot, No Chaser

Stuart Heritage explains how in hell a white British socialite who killed a Black police officer in Belize is now waging war against her partner

Broad Strokes, Dumb Folks

Joseph Bullmore reveals how the millennial in-law of one of Europe’s wealthiest art-collecting dynasties pulled off an epic grift

Issue No. 108
August 7, 2021
Bound for Glory

Stephen Fry reveals the story behind the discovery of a lost collection of books that has set bibliophiles aquiver

Papal Bull

Joseph Bullmore pulls back the cassock on a seedy, staggering corruption trial that is shaking the Vatican

Hot Mess

Alison Roman gives us a taste of Paris Hilton’s new cooking show

Issue No. 107
July 31, 2021
Taliban There, Done That

As the U.S. retreats from Afghanistan, Saad Mohseni tells us what forces for good could keep it from sliding back into the 14th century

Bull Market

William D. Cohan profiles Wall Street’s hottest stock promoter: a Bible-reading, Trump-loving 65-year-old divorcée

Let’s Get the Party Started

As the U.K. steps out of lockdown, Rachel Johnson reports on the somewhat awkward return of London’s long-delayed social season

Issue No. 106
July 24, 2021
Vlad’s Impalers?

From Moscow, Andrew Ryvkin reports on the woke-hating anti-vaxxers challenging Putin’s power

Zoomers of the World, Unite!

Kat Rosenfield looks at why more and more employees are threatening to quit rather than return to the office

Sisterhood of the Trashing Pantsuit

Leigh Stein asks why women force female founders out of their companies when they “fail” at feminism

Issue No. 105
July 17, 2021
Creepaway Camp?

Johanna Berkman reports on a summer camp for children of New York elites that rehired a counselor accused of sexual improprieties

Black Latex, White Justice

George Pendle reveals what happens when a Black dominatrix adds an extra degree of “humiliation” to their white-male clientele

The (Re)Dawning of the Age of Aquarius

Thanks to Pattern, a horoscope app with a curious lineage, millennials are wild about astrology

Issue No. 104
July 10, 2021
A Plum of an Assignment

Jon Bradshaw was one of the great journalists of the 1970s, and his piece on a swinging New York singles bar is still a masterpiece

The Big Sleazy

George Pendle reports on how New Orleans’s Black, reform-focused district attorney found himself hit with a curiously timed I.R.S. audit

Under the Volcano

Nina Burleigh digs into a fascinating new book about Sicily, that beautiful, mesmerizing, mountainous little dot

Issue No. 103
July 3, 2021
There Were Fireworks

David Kamp reveals how Elizabeth Taylor snagged husband No. 6 during America’s Bicentennial bash in July 1976

The Great Pretender

In this riveting tale, Carolyn Woods recounts how she discovered that the man she fell in love with was actually a psychopath

Suited and Booted

Steve Garbarino looks at Michael Caine’s influential style and his decades-long friendship with photographer Terry O’Neill

Issue No. 102
June 26, 2021
Search Engine

William D. Cohan reveals the less than savory details behind former Google C.E.O. Eric Schmidt’s very public open marriage, and wonders if it’s why he left the tech giant

The Gang that Couldn’t Shoot Straight

As a new Fox-like network launches in Britain, Stuart Heritage examines GB News’s OMG moments

Code Red

With New York City stepping out of its coronavirus fog, John Froude looks at The Surge at Mount Sinai, a powerful documentary about the battle inside one hospital

Issue No. 101
June 19, 2021
Random Acts of Vileness

Roger Parloff alerts us to the fact that, for all the drama in D.C., Republicans are sneaking some of their most damaging laws into the books via state legislatures

Café to Go-Go?

Ashley Baker shares the news that has New Yorkers buzzing: Air Mail’s molto cool Italian coffee-mobile

Fallen Idols

Joseph Bullmore reports on the woke wars roiling Oxford, as a portrait of the Queen is taken down and a statue of Cecil Rhodes teeters

Issue No. 100
June 12, 2021
Backbencher

Should we call her Dr. Su(e)ssex? From the U.K., Stuart Heritage wonders if Meghan Markle has what it takes to succeed as a children’s-book author

Young and Hungry

As we publish our 100th issue of AIR MAIL, it’s time to recognize the greatest of the next generation

Model Misbehavior

From New York, Ashley Baker reports on how the man behind fashion powerhouse Zadig & Voltaire left his wife for … her twin sister?

Issue No. 99
June 5, 2021
Lost in Paradise

Stuart Heritage looks at the strange, sordid case involving a British socialite and the fatal shooting of a police officer in Belize

City of Blight

Alexandra Marshall reports from Paris, where the mood has darkened, the trash piles up, and, as some say, it feels like New York in the 70s

MeWork for Top Dogs

Scott Galloway explains how burning through mountains of money, whether you are Jeffrey Katzenberg or Adam Neumann, became the new game for C.E.O.’s

Issue No. 98
May 29, 2021
Norwegian Would?

Nina Burleigh and Tarjei Leer-Salvesen detail the scandalous truth omitted from the new film Oslo: the hero-diplomat was way too close to Jeffrey Epstein

Cummings and Goings

Boris Johnson faces his toughest challenge yet: a poisonous former aide out for revenge. Patrick Kidd reports from London

Blackboard Bungle

Johanna Berkman reveals the truths behind a diversity-equality-inclusion consultancy that’s all the rage at Manhattan’s elite private schools

Issue No. 97
May 22, 2021
Fasten Your Seat Belts

Alex Oliveira reports on a turbulent battle in the Hamptons, as highfliers fight to keep the local airport open, while some residents want to shut it down

The View From Here

We all know the Republican Party is a Trump personality cult. But Douglas McGrath asks: How did someone with that personality gain a cult?

The Super-Rich Are Different

In London, Joseph Bullmore explains why one brother is selling his house for $241 million, while the other brother makes space for 57 supercars

Issue No. 96
May 15, 2021
Designing Men

James Wolcott takes the measure of Halston, as portrayed by Ewan McGregor in the new Ryan Murphy limited series

Shakedown on the Lido

In Venice, Lisa Hilton reports on a jealous mayor who is squeezing the city’s oldest families for cash—and why the Biennale may collapse

Hollywood and Vines

The Clooneys’ winery in Provence hits a snag