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Planes Have Changed While You Were Away

In the Flying-V, passengers will sit in the wings. It’s also better for the environment

Mob Rule

During the plague years, Milan’s criminal gangs controlled the streets. When cholera hit, they disposed of corpses. Now, Roberto Saviano says the mafia is behind a major coronavirus response

The Official Wheels of Squaresville?

The new Citroën Ami looks like a Playmobil, but it could be the future of driving

Wild Wheels

On what would have been festival weekend, photographs by Scott London celebrate Burning Man’s most eccentric rides

Cocaine Blues

The white powder has become so ubiquitous among London’s middle class that it’s losing its edge

Up in Flames

As Burning Man goes virtual, a new documentary reveals what really goes down on the playa

Breeding Anxiety: Gay-Dad Stress Disorder

With their surrogate babies, Anderson Cooper and other wealthy men spark an identity crisis

Hot Priest

The young, handsome vicar charming the streets of London with Judy Collins’s “Amazing Grace”

Days of Whine and Rosés

The Hamptons put the “distance” in social distancing

So, Maybe You Should Toke with the Rabbi?

For weed-loving Jews, edibles are manna. But a kosher option? Not so easy

Love Bites

An Ode to Shark Week

Lily Cole

The British model who has shifted her focus from the fashion industry to environmental activism

Record Scratch

A Hamptons charity event calling itself Safe & Sound was anything but. Working the turntables was Goldman Sachs C.E.O. David “DJ D-Sol” Solomon

Flying Start

With help from Rolls-Royce, makers of the Concorde engines, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic is at work on a jet that will cross the Atlantic in under two hours

Bee List

The planet’s most vital species has life lessons for these turbulent times

Worst. Bond Villain. Ever.

Beleaguered Facebook C.E.O. Mark Zuckerberg disrupts Hawaii

Gondoliers’ Row

In Venice, a rule favoring the offspring of gondoliers sparked fury. Its defenders point to the importance of passing the tradition from father to son

The End or the Beginning?

Anne Applebaum says democracy is in its final days. The author says, Not so fast

An Outsize Burden

America’s Black elite deserve to be reckoned with on their own terms—not those created by the media

Signifying Nothing

The coronavirus is not here to teach humanity a lesson. Beware of its self-proclaimed interpreters

Sounding the Alarm

Thomas Chatterton Williams, an originator of Harper’s “Letter on Justice and Open Debate,” on cancel culture and the future of free speech

Money Pit

The sheikh who can’t remember how many villas and castles he owns

Voyage of the Damned

The harrowing inside story of the coronavirus-ravaged cruise ship with 2,500 passengers that no one wanted

Anatomy of a Catastrophe

Why we need a coronavirus commission, and who should—and shouldn’t—lead it