Missing in Action
Nearly four decades after the Falklands War, Richard Farrand is re-united with his service hat
“What’s His Story?”
An infectious-disease specialist treats his first coronavirus patient
Sex and the Single Meme
How did getting rejected become the key to social acceptance?
Infantilized
Why are women paying $20,000 for what’s in the back seat? (Hint: it’s not the bag)
Off the Bottle
Among all the issues that the coronavirus raises, bottle blondes have another to add to the list: their highlights are quickly fading
Top Dog
In only his second attempt, Thomas Waerner trekked across nearly 1,000 miles of Alaskan wilderness to clinch dogsledding’s greatest prize
Doctor’s Orders
“Don’t think it is happening here and it can’t happen everywhere else”: Italy urges the world to learn from its own war with the coronavirus
Ménage à Trop
We broke up in June, but our house still hasn’t sold. Now we can’t even go outside …
Snack Attack!
The founders of a podcast for investment-savvy millennials talk as quickly as the markets move
Fiddling While Britain Burns
Boris Johnson’s laissez-faire view of the pandemic defies the world—and science
The Great Plague Diaries
Samuel Pepys’s 1665 account of life in London ravaged by bubonic plague is all too familiar in 2020
“Sweetheart, Can I Reach Out to You?”
When office-speak creeps into the boudoir
Lessons of the Spanish Flu
What can we learn from the 20th century’s deadliest virus outbreak?
We’re All Germophobes Now
And it’s time to end the handshake madness
Yiddish Envy
Why Catholic Poles are discovering Jewish roots they don’t even have
Model Land
A theme park for people obsessed with runways, photo shoots, makeovers, and red-carpet rides
Has Anyone Seen Mrs. Harvey Weinstein?
After this week, his future is suitably bleak. But what about his ex-wife Georgina Chapman’s?
Et Tu, A.C.L.U.?
How America’s staunchest defenders of free speech lost their nerve
Going Cold Turkey
Can a millennial survive a week without a smartphone?
Cape of No Hope
Corruption and crime have killed Nelson Mandela’s dream and doomed the country’s future
Is This the End of the First Amendment?
A startling court ruling makes it easier to jail insider traders—as well as whistleblowers and reporters
Painting the Town (Rectory) Red
The rise and fall of Farrow & Ball, paint purveyors to a vanishing upper class
Generation in Retrograde
Millennials won’t do anything without consulting their horoscope
Living Really Large
Outside Cairo, the biggest man-made structure in the world—an apartment complex for 30,000 residents—is in the works
