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Fifty Shades of Washington Inside the underground kink scene dominating the U.S. capital, where politicians tie up locals in the name of B.D.S.M.

By Alexandra Bregman
June 12, 2021
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Naked Lunch You’re invited to strip down—and Zoom in—for cocktail parties, yoga classes, and more!

By Flora Gill
June 5, 2021
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Vanishing Ink “Made-to-fade tattoo” parlors offer a chance to get inked without the risk of turning into a Pete Davidson doppelgänger

By Clementine Ford
May 29, 2021
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The Fight for Tulsa’s Soul A Jewish billionaire, a Southern preacher, and the side of Tulsa no one is talking about

By Adrian Brune
May 29, 2021
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International Men of Mundanity No hobbies. No quirks. Turns out the super-rich are also super-boring

By James Marriott
May 22, 2021
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The Mile Cry Club East Hampton is up in arms over the future of its airport, which services New York’s noisy 1 percent. Will the helipads be replaced with a solar farm?

By Alex Oliveira
May 22, 2021
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Sour Grapes over George Clooney His bid to own a vineyard in Provence is headed to court

By Adam Sage
May 15, 2021
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Are You Cheugy or Non-Cheugy? What started with mocking millennials’ skinny jeans and side parts now has a name

By Charlie Gowans-Eglinton
May 15, 2021
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Generation Burnout One 24-year-old success story has a warning for her fellow over-achievers

By Julia Llewellyn Smith
May 8, 2021
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Blue-Hair Specials The safest places to enjoy indoor dining in New York? Follow AIR MAIL’s “Three out of six” rule. And take your Tums

By John Brodie
May 1, 2021
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The Dirty Dozen How the hubris of Europe’s biggest soccer clubs sparked riots and compelled Prince William to tweet

By Stuart Heritage
April 24, 2021
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No Rest for the Famous Nine things celebrities could sell us without killing the planet

By Cazzie David
April 17, 2021
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Old Money vs. Machine A pair of Transformers figures provokes an epic battle in staid Georgetown

By George Pendle
April 10, 2021
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Parlez-Vous Parler? The love story behind the app that threatened the Capitol

By Nimrod Kamer
April 3, 2021
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The TikTok Star Who Hates TikTok Sixteen-year-old Sissy Sheridan has 5.3 million TikTok followers and can’t imagine her life without the app. That doesn’t mean she likes it

By Nancy Jo Sales
April 3, 2021
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BetterNot How we in lockdown view the Fresh Prince of Montecito, and other follies

By Rachel Johnson
April 3, 2021
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Maskless and Topless in Lamu The coronavirus-free Kenyan island attracting socialites, Marina Abramović, and Dominic West (post–Lily James hoo-ha)

By Nimrod Kamer
March 27, 2021
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#MeToo Comes for Philip Roth, In Death Women argue that the acclaimed novelist of sex and depravity deserves a “re-contextualizing”

By Josh Glancy
March 27, 2021
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Out of the Shadows The 22-year-old woman who used Instagram to open the U.K.’s eyes to teen-on-teen sexual abuse

By Alice Thomson
March 20, 2021
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This Is Bullshot! Does everyone have the vaccine but me?

By Ashley Baker
March 20, 2021
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Zoom-Smart Online students have become masters of trickery, cheating, and fun at their teachers’ expense—all while adhering to the unspoken rules of high school

By Elena Clavarino
March 13, 2021
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Princess Academy How a Welsh school dubbed “Hippie Hogwarts” became the popular choice for European royalty and Russian oligarchs

By Joseph Bullmore
March 13, 2021
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The Spice Girls of Niger Meet the woman-led band rocking West Africa and beyond

By Clair MacDougall
March 13, 2021
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Living with Steve Jobs’s Biographer Walter Isaacson has written about da Vinci and Einstein. His wife writes about his creative process. Salad, anyone?

By Cathy Isaacson
March 6, 2021