FOSO: Fear of Standing Out
Online, the only thing worse than not showing solidarity with an important cause is showing it in the wrong way
The New King of All Media
Scott Galloway, one half of the must-listen podcast Pivot, is everywhere these days, railing against big tech and spreading big ideas
Burn After Reading
In a baffling twist of fate, a new study reveals that smokers are less likely to get the coronavirus than those who abstain
Sex and the System
In New York and in red-light districts around the world, intimacy just got even more complicated
Bleach Party
For enterprising hoteliers, paranoia is the new sustainability
Nazi Lockdown
The German occupation crushed ordinary life in Paris as its citizens hid from the “brown plague”
Social (Media) Unrest
For twentysomething protesters, passions run high. Not just in the streets but also on Instagram
Putin on the Fritz?
Russia’s strongman fights the coronavirus invasion with faked data and in retreat
Living Your Best Lockdown
If practical advice from even Gwyneth Paltrow herself (!) can’t improve your situation … well, you’re on your own
Don’t Call It a Comeback
Where are they now? Wishing you a happy birthday (or anniversary, etc.) for a fee on Cameo
School’s Out For … Ever?
With distance learning as the new status quo, the most privileged New York parents are seeking alternative arrangements
2016 and All That
A very English take on Donald Trump
From FOMO to FOGO
What happens when social distancing gives way to the return of social commitments?
Office Affairs
“Work from home” puts an end to Christmas-party high jinks and watercooler romances
Why Is No One Talking About Polio?
The disease infected thousands when it tore through the U.S. Sixty-five years later, we’re back to where we were pre-vaccine
How About a Dose of Common Sense?
The anti-vax movement may derail a coronavirus recovery
Mount Everest Goes Red
During a global lockdown, Chinese scientists take over the world’s highest mountain
Down and Out in the Hollywood Hills
Eyebrow-raising behavior is par for the course at the Chateau Marmont. But owner André Balazs’s handling of the lockdown is provoking winces
Mr. Right
With prescient, gloomy pandemic reports, The New York Times’s wonky science writer Donald McNeil Jr. has become an unlikely sex symbol
Unmasked Ball
Cocaine, ketamine, models, and music: New York City’s underground party scene carries on during the pandemic
Doctors Without Choices
Why Russia is fighting the coronavirus like it’s 1943
The Neuro-Degenerate’s Guide to Boxing
Faced with one of life’s great challenges, a writer finds solace in the sweet science
The Covidfefe Chronicles
You can’t spell “pandemic” without “me,” backward
Tress Test
As Paris tiptoes toward reopening, hundreds of its best-coiffed women are still suffering on the waiting list at David Mallett’s salon. Welcome to the new normal…
