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“What Ho, Sergei!”

Rich Russian family advertises for a butler who can shimmer like Jeeves

Unbuild the Wall

The night they drove old Deutschland down

Speak, Memory. Faster!

Are you smart enough to compete in the European Quizzing Championships?

Marking Their Territory

Thanks to the tech crowd, San Francisco is now home to more dogs than children—and the city is forever changed

The #MeToo Minefield

In The Problem with Everything, Meghan Daum finds herself caught in the middle of the culture wars

Hiding in Plain Sight

A trove of Hitler artifacts in Argentina shows just how many Nazis escaped justice after the war

The Playing Fields of Money

The Swiss school that charges around $130,000 a year to raise the future global elite

Boris Johnson’s Ishtar

The British prime minister’s hitherto undiscovered and very un-woke movie treatment

From Russia with Something Other than Love

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once his nation’s richest man, spent a decade in a Siberian prison. Still, he has a great laugh

Me and My Shadow

Lost without the Instagram Following tab

She Worked Hard for His Money

Will Boris Johnson’s relationship with a pole-dancing American model who appeared in Naughty @ 40 lead him to prison?

Dirndl Power

Behind the beer-soaked scenes at the corporate-networking extravaganza known as Oktoberfest

Take the Money

Protest criminality, not charity, says the former head of Lincoln Center

My Month of Rest and Relaxation

In Asia’s posh postpartum hotels, new mothers are pampered while newborns are sequestered in the nursery

Lady Hale, Boris Johnson, and the Spider Brooch

The president of the U.K.’s Supreme Court tells the prime minister what’s what, and creates a legion of fans

Cocaine Diaries

On posh Brits and their unending love for the Colombian marching powder

The Handmaid’s Kale

Western feminists make the misogyny in Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments all about them

The French Burst Brits’ Bubbles

FRANCE

Sex Ed Gets Really, Really Complicated

U.K.

It Was a Rough Week for …

All Aboard the S.S. Chernobyl!

Russia

Nazis in the Basement

France

Can the Russian Election Be Hacked?

Russia

Kinder, Gentler Berlin Walls

Germany