Is Sam Altman a Psycho C.E.O.?
Without guilt or guardrails, the co-founder of OpenAI has created a trillion-dollar empire built on appropriation, bootlicking, and slop
The Shop That Put the Swing in Swinging London
At Granny Takes a Trip, the Chelsea clothing store whose customers included John Lennon, Mick Jagger, and Lou Reed, it was difficult to tell who was a pop star and who wasn’t
The Last Enlightenment Man
Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker is battling the woke left and the woo-woo right
When the Art World Lost Its Mind (and Money)
NFTs once promised to revolutionize creativity and commerce. Four years later, the market has collapsed, fortunes have vanished, and the art scene is still reckoning with what it all meant
What Happened to the Godfather of Pop Art?
How the contents of Larry Rivers’s estate and foundation ended up in a second-tier gallery near New Hope, Pennsylvania
Beware Calabrians Speaking Greek
Nestled among the mountains at the tip of Italy’s boot is a constellation of villages that still speak a Greek dialect dating back more than 3,000 years
The Girlbosses Next Door
Whitney Wolfe Herd, of Bumble; Leandra Medine Cohen, of Man Repeller; Audrey Gelman, of the Wing … The female founders are back, baby. Is anyone surprised?
War of the Gourmet Grocers
Fighting over everything from chicken salad to trad-wife protein powder, a spate of Manhattan prepared-food stores are vying to take the place of the mother ship, Dean & DeLuca
The Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Warfare
Inside the feud between Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling and her former protégé, Hermione actress Emma Watson
Science Defiance
Top researchers are putting their work—and retirements—on hold to combat Trump’s assault on scientific truth
The Oracle of Oxford
Larry Ellison, who surpassed Elon Musk last week to become the world’s richest man, is transforming the city into the new Silicon Valley
The New Fountain of Youth
Forget red-light therapy and intermittent fasting: a new study finds the secret to staying young is being ageist
Finding Love, the Old-Fashioned Way
From backgammon clubs to cornhole speed dating, Gen Z–ers with app fatigue are looking for their other halves in real life
Death Becomes Them
Now even funerals are a scene for the social climbing and peacocking of the Instagram age
Is the Gulf Art Boom a Mirage?
The art market is abuzz over the Middle East—but when autocrats are footing the bill, how long can it last?
Dude, Where’s My Tote?
From listening to Lana Del Rey to reading Sally Rooney, straight men are making a point of rejecting toxic masculinity and embracing feminine tastes in order to find love. Behold the rise of the “performative male”
What Does Your A.I. Say About You?
There was a time when a person’s bookshelf or record collection betrayed their soul. Today, it is their sidebar of A.I. tabs—be it ChatGPT, Claude, or Grok
A Pop Star’s Best Friend
Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift’s engagement this week has broken the Internet, but her ring—purportedly worth $1 million—is breaking the scale
A Blood Sport with Blow-Dries
On social media, college girls are treating sorority rush like reality TV—and earning millions in the process
The Great Waterlily Weigh-Off
From Junior’s cheesecakes to Ted Drewes frozen custards, gardens across the world are competing for how much weight their Victoria waterlilies can hold—and getting creative with their measuring tools
Sex Sober
Dating-app fatigue, the fall of Roe v. Wade, heterofatalism: Do Gen Z women need any more reasons to be celibate?
Politicians in Diapers!
“Our nation’s finest leaders … where they belong”: inside the infantile world of Diaper Diplomacy, a video-shorts series taking the Internet by storm
The Good, the Bad, and the Bunny
Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny has brought local fans and international stars together for his concert residency, which doubles as one big party
A New Twist in the U.K. Phone-Hacking Scandal
Was Will Lewis—now publisher of The Washington Post—complicit in covering up the crimes that brought down an infamous British tabloid?
