President Spamalot
Trump fails to make e-mail great again
James Hirschfeld
He started Paperless Post as an undergrad at Harvard. Ahead of the company’s busiest time of year, the founder explains how he got here
Last Call for the Essex Girl
Oxford University Press silences a stereotype
No Secret Handshake Required
The Freemasons go public (and put a price tag on it)
Crystal Clearing
London private-equity bigwigs are enlisting crystal healers to tell their wives they want a divorce—and paying them hefty sums to do it
Battle of the Sexists
Arguments over free speech dominate at Eton and Cambridge
Forget 5G. 6G Will Blow Your Mind
Because the 6 might as well stand for “sixth sense”
Breathing Fire
Millennials are taking the coronavirus particularly badly. Is their discontent rooted in something deeper than not being able to party?
Little Feat
In this New York City miniaturist’s workshop, it’s the pictures that got small—the classic-movie props, that is
What Lies Beneath …
A town house collapses in Chelsea as the underground lairs of some of London’s wealthiest residents may be cracking under the pressure
Three-Ways, U.K.-Style
It’s Netflix/Palace vs. No. 10 for this week’s biggest ratings
Instagram’s Brave New World
Influencers who are computer-generated and who, like their followers, never sleep
The Secret Histories
Collectors and voyeurs vie for other people’s diaries
The King and They
Blinged-out Maha Vajiralongkorn of Thailand is losing his God-like status as protesters march in the streets
I, Coronavirus
Trump’s real running mate takes a stand
Off the Rails
The famed Ian Allan Book & Model Shop in London, a favorite of railway enthusiasts, is the U.K.’s latest coronavirus casualty
Benched
A former Trump-appointed judge (of the Miss USA pageant) has some advice for Amy Coney Barrett
Scandale à Paris
The millennial French influencer Léna Mahfouf, whose new book is outselling classics, earns the ire of the Parisian intelligentsia
Africa Rising
Harvard? Yale? Princeton? A nonprofit program is recruiting Kenya’s top high-school students and connecting them with America’s most competitive universities
Kind Hearts and a Baronet?
What happens when an eccentric 74-year-old British aristocrat looks for someone to pay him $23,000 to live with him?
No Spring Chickens
Women—most of them single and nearing their mid-30s—are rushing to freeze their eggs as the coronavirus makes finding a partner more difficult
Hugging My Pillow
A day in the Notting Hill life of the great British actor
Party Like It’s 1929!
Americans are finagling their way around international-travel bans and decamping to Europe, where the living is (comparatively) easy
Take a Right at the Second Cloud
After 50 years, is one man’s dream of flying cars closer to reality?
