Against All Odds
From ESPN and the Athletic to Bill Simmons and Dave Portnoy, sports media is fueling the online-gambling boom—and becoming utterly reliant upon it
Moving Mountains
Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings is transforming Utah’s Powder Mountain into a private members’ club. Is he the ski resort’s savior or its saboteur?
Frazzle-Dazzle
With topknots, too-big cardigans, and well-worn Mulberry bags, Bridget Jones is back—and so is her frazzled aesthetic
The Battle for Club Med
When a Chinese “gray rhino” bought the quintessential European travel firm, a struggle for the soul of the French icon broke out
Lunar Tics
The rocket rivalry between Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pits the former’s painstaking attention to detail against the latter’s explosive experimentation
The War on Jugs
Is Lauren Sánchez’s décolletage—as seen most recently at Trump’s inauguration—a symbol of the political cleavage between today’s left and right?
Milan Banned Smoking. Locals Aren’t Having It
“I’m moving to Rome”: the Milanese react to a new law prohibiting smoking in public spaces
Everything Old Is New Again
“Tablescaping” vs. “setting the table,” “preloved fashion” vs. “secondhand” … Is Gen Z really changing boomer habits or just rebranding them?
Bare Facebook Liar
Mark Zuckerberg has killed Meta’s fact-checking program, accusing it of political bias. One former fact-checker can’t believe it
The Pen Is Stiffer Than the Sword
Tyler Bennett recalls the tips, tricks, and twists of writing erotica in which—unlike in porn films—context is everything
On the Couch with Freud (Bella, That Is)
The fashion designer—and great-granddaughter of Sigmund—analyzes Kate Moss, Zadie Smith, and Kristin Scott Thomas on her new podcast
A Restaurant Revolt in London
Locals are sick of tourists and influencers crowding their favorite restaurants—and are turning to ingenious means to lead them astray
AIR MAIL’s Inaugural Over-Under List
From raw milk to Luigi Mangione’s eyebrow specialist, this year’s most overhyped and underhyped things
Chris Whittle’s Teachable Moment
The charter-school entrepreneur went from being one of the most acclaimed operators in the education sphere to losing everything. Will he be able to make a comeback?
Why Americans Love What You Do—and Brits Hate to Hear It
In the U.S., overpraising is endemic, while in the U.K., compliments are viewed as insincere
Unoriginal Sinner
Italy’s little-known, highly suspicious history with the same steroids Jannik Sinner tested positive for bodes poorly for the tennis world champion and his massage-table alibi
Trouble in La-La Land
The Krotona apartments, in L.A.’s Hollywood Hills, once attracted artists, actors, and eccentrics. Now their state of disrepair has pitted neighbor against neighbor
Au Revoir les Voitures!
A radical plan to reduce traffic in Paris is underway. Will it reduce the capital’s deadly road-rage incidents?
Not in My Bar Harbor
Locals are up in arms over a cruise-ship monopoly that’s quickly turning a quaint coastal town into the Venice of Maine
Undecided? Moi?
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Buzz Bissinger is apoplectic at the political ads bombarding his Pennsylvania home
Jagged Little Pill
How the birth-control pill went from women’s-lib sensation to TikTok albatross, drawing backlash from young people on both the left and right
The Vocal Minority
What’s behind the growing popularity of Ivy League student Republican clubs?
Voting with Your Gut
The straw vote at Harry’s Bar, in Paris, has predicted the results of the American presidential election as accurately—if more drunkenly—than many more scientific polls
Gambling Man
Jamie Reuben, of the English property-and-investment firm Reuben Brothers, is spending billions on hotels and private clubs in New York. But will the Upper East Side love him back?
